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Services Employees International Union Healthcare is a trade union in Canada, representing more than 55,000 workers in Ontario and British Columbia. Through collective bargaining, the union represents workers in hospitals, home care, nursing & retirement homes, community services, and other healthcare-based occupations. SEIU Healthcare has been active in Ontario for nearly 70 years. In 2004, six SEIU locals merged into one local to provide a higher level of service to its members. Local 1.on (as it was known then) was officially granted status on January 8, 2004. In 2013, the local changed its name to SEIU Healthcare to reflect the work its members provide to patients, residents and clients. Ever since the merger in 2004, SEIU Healthcare has grown by over 17,000 members, a 45 percent increase. 2014 marks the ten-year anniversary of this merger. The President of SEIU Local 1 Canada is Sharleen Stewart, who was re-elected for a four-year term at its provincial convention in Hunstville, Ontario in November 2011. SEIU Healthcare is one of three locals who are affiliated with SEIU Canada, the national union representing over 125,000 workers throughout Canada. SEIU Canada is a part of SEIU, an international union representing more than 2.1 million workers throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. ==History == Originally known as the Building Service Employees International Union, the union established its first two locals in Montreal and Vancouver in 1943. Members at these two locals were mainly elevator operators, window cleaners, janitors and other maintenance employees in commercial buildings. SEIU started organizing healthcare workers in Ontario hospitals in the early 1940s. Many other unions tried to organize this sector with little success. SEIU continued its efforts and formed Canada’s first hospital local at the Toronto General Hospital in 1944, and went on to organize four hospitals in Thunder Bay in 1946. SEIU continued to expand in hospitals and nursing homes. In the early 1980s SEIU helped protect nursing home jobs from outsourcing, won a pension plan for thousands of nursing home workers worth over $304-million in assets, and stopped the Ontario Government from passing a law that would restrict yearly wage increases. In the mid-1990s SEIU took the Ontario Government to court after the Progressive Conservatives tried to limit Ontario’s pay equity legislation. This legal action pressured the government in June 2003 to commit up to $414 million in pay equity funding for 100,000 women across Ontario.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work= SEIU’s History )〕 In 1998 SEIU’s national executive and local presidents across Canada created a working group to examine ways to strengthen SEIU’s structure in Canada. Dubbed the “November Group”, this body put forward a proposal that would give SEIU Canada and its local’s greater autonomy in its decision-making, financial structures and the establishment of their strategic goals. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 work= Anatomy of A Raid SEIU Canada tells its story )〕 〔Don Stillman. 2010. Stronger Together: The Story of SEIU. White River Junction, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing. p. 187〕However, some of SEIU’s leaders did not agree with the November Group’s proposals. They responded by resigning and supporting the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) raid on SEIU work units in Ontario in 2000. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 work= Anatomy of A Raid: SEIU Canada tells its story )〕After the dust had settled, the overwhelming majority of SEIU members rejected the CAW’s and chose to stay with SEIU. SEIU’s Ontario locals began to work together to strengthen SEIU in Canada. In October 2003, the locals voted to merge its health care and community service members into one provincial local named SEIU Local 1.on. SEIU’s members approved this decision by a 90% majority. SEIU International issued a charter for SEIU Local 1.on on January 8, 2004 and approved the new local’s constitution on March 26, 2004. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SEIU Healthcare」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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