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SEIU Local 509

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At over 28,000 workers and growing, SEIU 509 is the union for Massachusetts health and human service workers and educators.

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Raise Up Massachusetts @raiseupma.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What is MA saying about Q5? #mapoli #noon5ma
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⏰ If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to RSVP for the SEIU 509 Steward Assembly and Annual Meeting happening this Friday & Saturday: www.seiu509.org/unite-fight-win-2026
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Team 509 stands shoulder to shoulder with Encore workers with @local26-unitehere.bsky.social and @teamsters.bsky.social on STRIKE for a fair contract that secures livable wages & strong benefits. One day longer, one day stronger! 💪
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April Verrett @seiupres.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Y’all, we’re in PHOENIX! 🔥 And let me tell you, THIS is a room full of power. We’re here with members from across the country talking about what this moment demands of us and the power we have to disrupt the status quo. 💜✊🏿 #MoneyPowerRespect
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 23/09/2026
Working people see through every tired excuse this administration has used to attack our healthcare. Whatever the excuse, they have one goal: fund tax breaks for the extremely rich. This November we’ll elect leaders who know healthcare is essential. seiu.co/4rprTmB
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SEIU's Verrett on Administration plan to cancel ACA healthcare for nearly 800,000 people
We are the Service Employees International Union, an organization of 2-million members united by the belief in the dignity and worth of workers and the services they provide and dedicated to improving the lives of workers and their families and creating...
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
💪 Over the weekend, SEIU 509 members from across the state joined the re-launch of the Lavender Caucus with a picnic in Worcester! Union members are organizing and building worker power in support of 2SLGBTQIA+ rights at work and in our communities.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Earlier this month, MassHealth members gathered for a steward training led by chapter leaders and discussed how to continue building worker power at our worksites & in our communities as we gear up for our state contract campaign. ✊
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
SEIU Local 509 members are proud to endorse these candidates for the MA State House! #mapoli
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
📢 SEIU 509 members: Join your coworkers at your union’s Steward Assembly and Annual Meeting on October 2nd & 3rd to learn skills to protect your contracts, build union power, and how we’re fighting to protect our communities. More info: www.seiu509.org/unite-fight-win-2026
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎉Congratulations to the SEIU Local 509 member-endorsed candidates for winning their races and advancing to the general election!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎉 Congratulations to the SEIU Local 509 member-endorsed incumbent champions for winning their races and advancing to the general election!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎉 Congratulations to former SEIU Local 509 member Jim O'Day for winning the Democratic primary for State Representative in the 14th Worcester District and advancing to the general election!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🎉 Congratulations to SEIU Local 509 member Celina Reyes for winning the Democratic primary for State Representative in the 16th Essex District and advancing to the general election!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Updated gathering location is Copley Sq Plaza at 8:30am!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📢 Tomorrow 9/1 is Primary Election Day! If you haven’t voted yet, make sure to make a plan to vote. 🗳️ Polls are open from 7 AM to 8 PM. Find your voting location at link.seiu509.org/vote
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Solidarity with Encore Boston Harbor casino workers with @local26-unitehere.bsky.social who are ready to strike for a fair contract! Take the pledge & stand with casino workers ➡️ actionnetwork.org/forms/encore...
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Labor Day is an opportunity to show our union solidarity! Join SEIU 509 for the GLBC Labor Day Parade on Sept. 7: act.seiu.org/a/509-labor-day-2026. For other Labor Day actions across the state, visit our site: www.seiu509.org/labor-day-2026
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Lynn United for Change @lynnunitedma.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICE out of Lynn! Thursday 8/27 @ 8AM, meet @ Lynn City Hall [Update: progress on the demand to stop Lynn Police cooperation with "peaceful transfers" to ICE. More info soon. Protest will continue: we still need an end to court collaboration w/ ICE!] @northshoredsa.bsky.social @seiu509.bsky.social
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ICE Out of Lynn

We Demand:
- End of all Collaboration between Lynn Courts and ICE
- An End to all Collaboration between Lynn Police Department and ICE

Tell Lynn Police + Courts
No More Collaboration with ICE!

Thursday Aug. 27th, 8-10AM
In Front of Lynn City Hall
(3 City Hall Square, Lynn)
Then March to Lynn Police Station
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A huge thank you to Senators @edmarkey.bsky.social and @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social for standing in solidarity with JRI therapists & family mentors who are organizing for their union! Mental health workers deserve dignity and a fair union election. ✊
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
✊ DCF Springfield workers are purpling up & showing their union power as we prepare to enter into our state contract campaign! We're in the final stretch of collecting bargaining surveys. If you haven't done so already, complete yours as soon as you can. #1u
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 20/08/2026
Hats off to 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor who are ready to go on strike in the fight to win better pay & improved pension benefits! Working people helped the Wynn Resorts casino generate nearly $847 million in revenue last year & should reap the benefits in their new union contract.
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Encore Boston Harbor workers weigh strike authorization as contract expiration nears
More than 1,300 workers at Encore Boston Harbor are voting on whether to authorize a strike as contract negotiations with Wynn Resorts continue.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📢 Better Community Living workers are at the bargaining table fighting for a fair contract! Management is trying to take away workers' ability to give input on their work schedules –putting workers at risk of losing their health coverage or their jobs altogether. BCL workers deserve better!
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Rocío Sáenz @seiusaenz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
While the immigration status of our friends and coworkers may be labeled as temporary, their lives are not. Their families, communities, and contributions are permanent. It’s past time their protections were too. #DreamAndPromiseAct now. Take action: iamerica.org/dream-and-pr...
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Pass the Dream & Promise Act: Create a Pathway to Citizenship - iAmerica
When we create a pathway to citizenship, we keep American families together, protect millions from job loss and mass deportation, raise wages for all working people, create new jobs, and build a…
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
💪 Family child care providers sent a clear message to Governor Healey today: fund our raises NOW! Family child care workers are essential to Massachusetts families and communities. They deserve fair compensation that reflects the essential work they do and the rising costs they face.
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Tram T. Nguyen @teamtram.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Proud to stand with @seiu509.bsky.social family child care educators at the State House calling for fair pay and the investment they deserve. Affordable, accessible child care is essential infrastructure for our communities. We need to invest in the people who make it possible.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
SEIU Local 509 members are proud to endorse these candidates for the MA State House! #mapoli
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's a HOT union summer and SEIU 509 private sector workers are busy winning strong union contracts across the state! Check out the graphics below to learn more 👇
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
📢 Massachusetts families are at risk of losing access to child care if providers can't afford to stay open! Join us on August 18 to rally and call on @massgovernor.bsky.social to fund fair raises for family child care workers. RSVP: act.seiu.org/a/childcare-cant-wait
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Ed Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I’m proud to fight every day for working families and grateful for the endorsement of SEIU Local 509 as we work together to secure a better future.
Local 509 SEIU. Senator Ed Markey is endorsed by SEIU Local 509."Senator Markey has long been a champion of our health safety net for the most vulnerable in Massachusetts. He can always be counted on to stand up for working people and the care they provide. When we need his help Markey and his team are always there." - Dave Foley, SEIU Local 509
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Justice Resource Institute is UNION BUSTING, so workers showed up to rally & deliver a petition demanding management to stay neutral during their union election! 💪 We thank our community partners and Senator Pavel Payano for standing with us! Union busting is disgusting.
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ACLU of Massachusetts @aclum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
IMMIGRATION WIN: The PROTECT Act has been signed into law! The new law strictly limits local law enforcement assistance to ICE, bans new 287(g) agreements for civil immigration enforcement and prohibits ICE civil arrests at Massachusetts state courthouses. Together, we made this possible!
Governor Healey signs the PROTECT Act surrounded by advocates and lawmakers.Lenita Reason of Brazilian Workers Center speaking to a crowd at the signing of The PROTECT Act.Some members of the Massachusetts Protecting Communities Coalition with The PROTECT Act.Governor Healey surrounded by advocates with the freshly signed PROTECT Act.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Union power is political power! Over the weekend, SEIU 509 member leaders met for the Committee on Political Education (COPE) summer social. ☀️ Leaders are gearing up and building collective political power at work and in their communities!
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 04/08/2026
Working people are tired of hearing about “record profits” while they fight for scraps and struggle to make ends meet. Working people are hungry for change and real financial stability, and a union contract is how to make that happen!
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Millions say they would join a labor union if they could | KiowaCountyPress.net
A new report argues that tripling union membership in Colorado and nationwide would raise wages, expand healthcare access, and help families afford rising costs of living.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Former SEIU 509 member Jim O’Day for re-election as State Representative of the 14th Worcester District! #mapoli
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
☔ Rain or shine, DTA workers are continuing the fight for more staffing to ensure they can serve their clients and communities. Check out photos from the lunchtime picket today in Taunton!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
✊ Yesterday, Better Community Living members rallied to demand a fair contract that protects workers’ input in their schedules! BCL workers who provide essential, life-affirming care deserve dignity & a say in their working conditions. Show your solidarity: act.seiu.org/a/bclschedules
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 27/07/2026
Charges have been dropped against SEIU USWW President David Huerta. A win for workers! We won’t stop speaking up to demand justice for all workers, no matter where they were born. We will not be silenced.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
SEIU Local 509 members are proud to endorse these candidates for the MA State House! #mapoli
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Labor and community showed up #unionstrong in solidarity with MAB workers! 💪 Workers rallied to demand a fair union contract that secures livable wages, retirement benefits, & protections for immigrant workers amidst a workforce crisis. Our fight continues until we get the contract we deserve!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
✊ DMH workers and supporters gathered yesterday at DMH Brockton to make it clear that we stand up against management who target and discriminate against union members! Respect the work, respect the worker. Thank you to the Brockton state delegation for standing with us!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Today, Fall River DTA workers held a lunchtime picket to draw attention to the crisis clients and DTA workers are facing across the state 📢 Together, we’re demanding increased staffing and state action to protect SNAP now!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
📢 Join MAB Community Services workers on July 15 as they rally for a fair contract! MAB workers are fighting for livable wages, retirement benefits, & protections for immigrant workers. RSVP here: act.seiu.org/a/mab-rally-fair-contract-1
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TODAY: JRI therapists and family mentors in the Children's Friend and Family Services (CFFS) division are launching their union organizing campaign with SEIU 509! CFFS staff are fighting for fair compensation and better working conditions across the organization. (1/2)
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
TODAY: JRI therapists and family mentors in the Children's Friend and Family Services (CFFS) division are launching their union organizing campaign with SEIU 509! CFFS staff are fighting for fair compensation and better working conditions across the organization. (1/2)
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
SEIU Local 509 members are proud to endorse these candidates for the MA State House! #mapoli
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 30/06/2026
Solidarity to state workers in Massachusetts at DTA Malden who are fighting for safe staffing levels! When state workers who provide essential services to our communities are overwhelmed by caseloads, we all suffer.
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
💪 DTA Malden workers are united in the fight for more staffing in order to reduce overwhelming caseloads and continue to deliver quality, essential services to families across the state!
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SEIU Local 509 @seiu509.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
✊ Today, Family Child Care educators delivered a petition with over 1,000 signatures demanding Governor Healey take urgent action and allocate adequate funding for child care workers. Child care can't wait!
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iAmerica @iamerica.org · 25/06/2026
We won't back down! After the Supreme Court's immoral ruling allowing TPS protections for Haitians and Syrians to end, working people gathered on the Court’s steps to demand Congress act now to #ProtectTPS holders and create a pathway to citizenship for all.
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