Anita Pecoff represents Homecare at
SEIU International Convention
Every 4 years, our International Union convenes it's national convention to set our goals and agenda for the
next four years. In 2004 we met in San Francisco. This year, we met in Puerto Rico. Anita Pecoff was the only
homecare leader elected as a delegate to the convention. Here's her Words about her experience:. ',.
The SEIU
Convention was
very exciting.
The food and
weather was '
terrific and
every other
day there was
à celebration in
the streets.
I was
among 3000
delegates from
all over the
US, Canada
and Puerto Rico, plus guests from Ethiopia and
Australia, all-in-all 17 countries.
With our population aging the Healthcare
division goal is to have a National Healthcare
system and healthcare reform which ensures
affordable, quality healthcare for every
Local 503's Delegation to the
Summer Institute for Union Women in
Vancouver, British Columbia - Jeannie
Miles, Sally Cumberworth, Mary Wood,
Portia Moye, Lee Meyers, Front Row,
Timisha Wilson and LJ Denney.
man, woman and child in America. We will
accomplish this by uniting nurses, hospital
workers, homecare workers, nursing homes,
foster care homes, and child care workers into
"one long term care SEIU Union."' Iti's.0d$ii^ we
raise the standards of care, training, and Wages
for all working families. We will continue to have
local bargaining but eventually we will negotiate
national contracts'with national companies in
which SEIU workers in every; ¡state will have
representation at the bargaining table and we will
leverage our power at a national level to achieve
healthcare coverage
for every healthcare
worker. There is ;
power and justice in
numbers and we're
passing it on to
healthcare workers
across the country.
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this
exciting goal.