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SEIU Hits Two Million-Member Strong Milestone

In San Juan, Puerto Rico members from around the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico kicked off our 24th International Convention with the announcement that the organization’s membership had grown to two million members strong.  At a time when many workers have been struggling, SEIU members have united more than a million workers since 1996, our last convention, and made record gains at the bargaining table, in politics and in our communities.

“I came to Puerto Rico knowing we were strong, but I had no idea we had rung the bell,” said Linda Rouse Sutton, a state employee from SEIU Local 2008 in North Carolina whose association voted to affiliate with SEIU just this May.  “Does size matter?  You bet it does.  Today we’re no longer a group of state employees in the South.  We’re part of something bigger that is looking after working people in all over this country and Canada, too!”

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