SEIU Annual Report
SEIU Annual Report
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Change<br />
That Works<br />
By <strong>SEIU</strong> President Andy Stern<br />
Change isn’t easy—especially when you’re rowing<br />
into the fearsome economic and political winds that<br />
blew across the United States in 2009.<br />
Yet 2009 was also a year of unprecedented<br />
opportunity—and we seized it. Despite tremendous outside<br />
pressure to simply say “this is not the right time,” <strong>SEIU</strong><br />
members stood tall for working families and pushed forward.<br />
Nov. 4, 2008, we celebrated the election of a new president—a<br />
young African American who promised to govern on behalf of<br />
the middle class. Both Obama and his running mate Joe Biden<br />
had symbolically begun their partnership with our union by<br />
walking a day in the shoes of <strong>SEIU</strong> workers.<br />
Jan. 20, 2009, we joined with millions around the world to<br />
watch the American Dream come true, as Barack Obama,<br />
raised by a single mom and married to a Chicago public<br />
worker, took his oath of office. In place of the greed and fear<br />
that had marked the previous eight years, he offered us hope.<br />
Knowing it would take hope and a lot of hard work to win<br />
healthcare reform, free and fair union elections, good jobs<br />
and retirement security for America’s working families, we<br />
sent hundreds of new organizers into the field to help turn our<br />
dreams into reality.<br />
But even as these historic moments were unfolding, Wall<br />
Street and corporate interests were robbing the bank. The<br />
country was on the verge of a complete economic meltdown<br />
and Congress quickly got caught up in politics as usual.<br />
cover - <strong>SEIU</strong> Staff<br />
p02 - Nathan Armes<br />
p03 - Nathan Armes<br />
p04 - Nathan Armes<br />
p05 - Aaron Donovan<br />
p06 - Robert Durell<br />
p07 - David Sachs<br />
p08 - <strong>SEIU</strong> Staff<br />
p09 - Ricardo Figueroa<br />
p10 - Nadia Afghani/LAANE<br />
p11 - David Bacon<br />
Photo Credits<br />
p12 - Wynne Hartviksen<br />
p13 - Karen Klipowicz<br />
p14 - <strong>SEIU</strong> Staff<br />
p15 - Slobodan Dimitrov<br />
p16 - Lloyd Wolf<br />
p17 - iStockphoto<br />
p18 - David Sachs<br />
p19 - David Sachs<br />
To find out more about these and other <strong>SEIU</strong> photos,<br />
visit http://photos.seiu.org or e-mail photos@seiu.org.<br />
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