So ... you might have heard there's a vote in Puerto Rico this weekend.
In fact, there was a pretty important vote for working families that happened earlier today. The result was overwhelming.
The Strategic Unity plan outlines SEIU's goal to organize 350,000 new health care workers over the next four years. But that's just one piece of what's happening in Puerto Rico -- here's a bit more about SEIU and the candidate you were thinking of when you read the title of this diary.
SEIU Healthcare members also committed to drive unprecedented voter registration efforts in key U.S. battleground states through Healthcare United, a grassroots effort led by SEIU healthcare workers dedicated to electing a new U.S. president in Barack Obama and a new Congress committed to healthcare reform.
But election day is only a point on the path to our larger goals:
Economic Justice
Health Care for Everyone
Ending the War in Iraq
* $10 million fund to take on elected officials who fail to live up to their promises.
* Calls for SEIU members to make at least 10 million phone calls to members of Congress after the election to hold them accountable.
* At least 50 percent of the union's organizing budget and 50 percent of its non-organizing staff at the national and local levels will be devoted to the effort.
In February SEIU members, along with several other organizations, provided a dramatic preview of the new "no nonsense" political accountability program, defeating long-time Democratic incumbent Al Wynn in Maryland and helping elect Donna Edwards.
Some within the union agree with the "Justice for All" platform, and that's fine. Some don't. But everyone will have a chance to be heard, and then there will be a vote. Like the one on the youtube video above.
