Service Employees International Union (SEIU) 775 was formed in 2002 when home care and

nursing Nursing is a health care profession that "integrates the art and science of caring and focuses on the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and human functioning; prevention of illness and injury; facilitation of healing; and alle ...

home workers from several different SEIU locals formed a

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focused on

long-term care Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and ...

workers and issues. In 2007, the union changed its name from SEIU 775 to

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775NW, as part of a reorganization of its parent union, the

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, but changed the name back to SEIU 775 in 2014. SEIU 775 now represents over 45,000 home care and nursing home workers in Washington and

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. The majority of union members are independent providers of non-medical, in-home care for disabled and elderly persons receiving

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. The union also represents home care worker employees of several Washington home care agencies with State contracts to provide home care to qualified Medicaid recipients.

History

The labor union is named after

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Initiative 775, the Quality Home Care Initiative, which voters approved in 2001 and which gave 23,000 Individual Provider home care workers the right to form a union in the largest union election ever held in Washington state. SEIU 775's first contract with the state, ratified and approved in 2003, increased

caregiver A caregiver, carer or support worker is a paid or unpaid person who helps an individual with activities of daily living. Caregivers who are members of a care recipient's family or social network, who may have specific professional training, are o ...

salaries, gave them access to

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protection, and provided access to health insurance to caregivers working at least half time. COVID-19 vaccination not required for employment.

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SEIU Healthcare website
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