- SEIU Local 925 -

Fasten Your Seat Belt for a Rough Ride in 2009
The crisis in the world and US economy is coming home to us in Washington state:

Consumer spending is down, way down, with car sales down 36%.
National and international credit is frozen.
Unemployment is rising, as firms cut back and new projects are cancelled.
As economic activity slows, state sales tax revenues drop. Our state’s budget is $6 billion short out of $33 billion. That means cuts to the current state budgets—and deeper ones to come.

THE OPPORTUNITY

At the same time, we’ve elected a new president who has vowed to regain lost ground for working families. For the first time in more than a decade we’re looking to Washington DC for positive action:

Health care reform.
Restore the middle class by enacting the Employee Free Choice Act.
Federal aid to help our struggling communities.

Our Program for Economic Health and Quality Public Services
Tell Washington legislators: An all-cuts state budget won’t serve the needs of our state’s children, students and other residents.

Close the loopholes in WA state’s tax code, to help reform our most-unfair-in-the-nation system.
Protect quality public services through other revenue options.

Tell our US Senators & Representatives

Pass a federal stimulus package that will bail out our communities—not just banks and corporations.
Federal health care reform to win health care for all Americans.
Restore the middle class by passing the Employee Free Choice Act.

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SEIU Member Activism Boosts Votes for Obama, Gregoire

In a massive outpouring of enthusiasm for change in Washington DC and continued progress in Washington state, more than 250 members of SEIU Local 925 completed more than 635 shifts of door-to-door canvassing and phone banking in support of Barack Obama and Chris Gregoire. Child care, public school, and university workers put their educational skills to work to register voters, help them understand the issues, and remind them to vote.

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Make Those Health Care Promises Stick

SEIU 925 Member Paula Hall Told Seattle P-I Readers How SEIU Members Will Be Holding Elected Officials Accountable

Nearly a year ago, I had the honor of delivering the Democratic radio address to a national audience. It was a tremendous privilege to step up to the microphone and speak to Americans about our national health care crisis.

I'm not an elected leader. I'm a child care provider and the mom of a family that knows all too well the trauma and economic ruin that comes when the U.S. health care system fails you.

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