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Nursing Homes - Who We Are

SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana unites nursing home workers throughout Illinois and Northwest Indiana. Together, we strive to give working men and women a voice on the job and in their communities.

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Regal Health & Rehab LPNs win justice at National Labor Relations Board

The National Labor Relations Board decided that Michael Lerner and his GEM Healthcare company unlawfully terminated LPNs and conducted a campaign of intimidation, threats of blackballing and harassment after the LPNs had requested representation by SEIU Healthcare Illinois.

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Galesburg Labor Day - Pride and a Demand for Action

Galesburg Labor Day Parade

Forty SEIU Healthcare workers and their families donned their purple for the annual Galesburg Labor Day parade. And this year, the SEIU marchers had a float with a message: The State of Illinois has to help fix Michael Lerner’s GEM Healthcare nursing homes by placing them into receivership.

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Central Illinois Healthcare Workers Fight for Quality Care, Quality Jobs

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Empty beds in Streator, worker turnover in Galesburg led caregivers to seek a stronger voice.

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Momence Meadow workers unite to win healthcare

What does it mean for workers that SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana is the largest healthcare union in Illinois – with strong nursing home organizing rights? It means that eighty new nursing home workers are now united with SEIU Healthcare Illinois & Indiana after winning card check recognition July 21st, and will soon receive healthcare.

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Recent Research on Quality Care

Univ of Texas Unionized nursing facility was found to have fewer incidents of serious quality violations, found a study by James H. Swan, PhD, University of North Texas, and Charlene Harrington, PhD, University of California. Read the study online or download the study (PDF).

Quality Care study cover A study by SEIU Local 4 finds that Illinois seniors are at risk: the state falls short in providing quality care. Read the prescription for change. Download the full report (PDF).



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