✊ On May 1st, SEIU 509 members are joining thousands of workers & allies across the country for a national day of action demanding that working people are put over the billionaire class! Find a May Day action near you: www.seiu509.org/may-day

🗞️ ICYMI: Lesley University CORE faculty have authorized a strike! Higher ed promises a more stable future for all of us, but many faculty workers are struggling to get by. Hear Local 509 members Pam & Kelvin share their stories in the recent Globe piece: link.seiu509.org/globe

Solidarity with Lesley CORE faculty!!

SEIU 509 members are unstoppable ✊ Mystic Valley Elder Services workers kicked off bargaining last week! MVES workers are fighting for stronger benefits and fair compensation.

The votes are in 📢 Lesley University faculty voted overwhelmingly in favor to authorize a STRIKE! Faculty are ready to strike for fair wages, manageable workloads, stopping the over reliance on temp faculty & a successorship clause that would retain their union contract.

📢 Community Healthlink workers spoke at last night's City Council meeting in Worcester, urging elected officials and community members to stand with us following the recent closure announcement. (1/2)

Happy Tax Day. Reminder that billionaires get lower tax rates than the folks teaching our kids, caring for our families, and building our communities.

💪 DCF Central workers can't stop, won't stop! Yesterday, DCF workers delivered their fair compensation for transportation overtime petition to Central Region Area Director, Pascaly Balzora-Rivert. United, we're making our demands known: respect the work, respect the worker!

Thank YOU @seiu509.bsky.social and the Tufts Grad Workers Union (TUGWU) members for coming to the State House to lobby for taxing the wealthy and corporations, protecting workers' rights, and fighting to protect our immigrant communities.

💪 Yesterday, over 250 SEIU 509 members showed up #unionstrong for Lobby Day! We shared our stories with state legislators, advocated for the issues that impact our communities, & made our presence known. Our fight for better working and living conditions for all MA families continues!

Medicaid covers nearly 1 in 2 births in America. Cutting it doesn't just strip coverage — it makes pregnancy a health risk for millions of women. #ProtectMedicaid #MedicaidAwarenessMonth

SEIU 509 was proud to be at the Greater Southeastern Massachusetts Labor Council Legislative Breakfast! Rank-and-file workers met directly with local legislators on how to strengthen our labor movement. We’re building #unionpower

The truth: The Mass High Tech Council, Mass Opportunity Alliance, and Mass Competitive Partnership are threatening to slash MORE than just your income tax. 🗣️💯✅ mauricecunningham153.substack.com/p/pioneer-in...

SEIU 509 is proud to endorse Celina Reyes for State Rep. in the 16th Essex District! 🎉 From leading our Family Childcare Chapter to lobbying legislators in support of affordable and accessible childcare for all, Celina has been a fighter for Local 509 members and her community.

This Trans Day of Visibility, remember: A world without trans people has never existed. Trans people belong EVERYWHERE — today and EVERYDAY.

📢 Today, Save Our State (SOS) labor and community partners showed up to say: we won't allow the Mass High Tech Council to gut $5 billion from our schools, healthcare, & essential services and give tax breaks to the ultra-rich! Learn more: www.mhtcrevealed.com

Over the weekend, SEIU 509 & the @gblcboston.bsky.social Labor Contingent joined 180k people strong in Boston to say: #NoKings! The billionaire class is profiting off working people but, united, we’re fighting back! ✊

This movement is bigger than one rally. It’s about building a future where working people have the money to live, the power to choose, and the respect to be seen. No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. #NoKings 📍 Atlanta

Solidarity with MNA UMass Memorial nurses picketing for safe patient care, competitive wages, and better working conditions! SEIU 509 has your backs 💪

Today is #EqualPayDay, the day we recognize that women earn 76 cents on the dollar compared to men. The labor movement is committed to closing the wage gap and making sure women get dignity and respect on the job—and the solution is a union contract!

✏️ Our 2026 scholarship application is open! Apply to make your education goals a reality this year. More info here: seiu509.org/2026-scholarships

📢 JOIN US FOR ROUND 2! 📢 The Save Our State protest is coming back, and this time we're on the move! Join labor and community partners Monday, March 30th in Post Office Square, Boston to tell members of the MHTC and MACP to RESIGN. RSVP: raiseupma.us/sos

Today, union members with SEIU 509, MNA, & AFSCME Local 1517 announced an overwhelming vote of no confidence in DPH Commissioner Robbie Goldstein for actions that represent the abandonment of Pappas’ vital mission as a rehabilitation hospital. (1/2)

"Striking faculty returned to work Wednesday having won 'the highest minimum salaries of any unionized full-time, non-tenure track faculty in the country,' Brendan Hogan, a philosophy professor and spokesperson for CFU-UAW, said in a statement." 📰 ow.ly/Zfji50YyJJN

🔥 Yesterday, DDS workers turned up the heat and delivered a petition to management with 700 signatures calling on the DDS commissioner to bargain over any schedule changes! #unionstrong

Collective action matters. When we fight, we win. ✊

Today, we remember and celebrate our dear Family Child Care leader, Maritza Manrique, who passed away on March 24, 2025. Her presence feels more alive than ever in every step we take as a community. Read more from SEIU 509 FCC Chapter President Celina Reyes: link.seiu509.org/honoring-maritza

✊ Across the country on March 28th, we're showing up to say: NO KINGS! Wear your purple and join the Boston Labor Contingent. Details below! @massaflcio.bsky.social @gblcboston.bsky.social

Solidarity!! 💪

We’re standing up to protect democracy in peaceful protests across California on March 28 as part of the “No Kings” national day of peaceful protest 📣Find an event near you and RSVP now: seiu2015.us/CareNotKings #NoKings

SEIU 509 DESE members are ready to bargain their state contract! 💪 State workers: talk to your co-workers about filling out your bargaining survey today.

📸 Scenes from Friday’s protests at Fidelity Bank & Bank of America. Together with our @raiseupma.bsky.social community and labor partners, we're demanding that these banks leave the MA High Tech Council and MACP!

Time’s up! BMDA UAW Local 3999 members are on strike at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine ✊ @uawregion9a.bsky.social

The Massachusetts High Tech Council and Opportunity Alliance support tax breaks that drain $5B from education & healthcare.

The moment we’re living in requires organized action. As a union, we are SERIOUS about meeting this moment. We stood up to ICE in Minneapolis in January, and the work continues. March 28th it’s time to declare #NoKings. Join us. seiu.co/NoKings28

Tell the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership and Opportunity Alliance to stop backing measures cutting jobs and key services!

What’s disgusting? Union-busting! Seamark workers were told last Monday — weeks after they unionized — that the restaurant will shut down on March 29th and all 56 workers will lose their jobs. Smells like retaliation to us. #UnionBustingIsDisgusting

This #WomensHistoryMonth, we honor women labor leaders in our movement -- fighting not just for today, but for a future where all workers thrive! 💜

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Cancelled! M&T Bank has formally left the Mass High Tech Council ✊ More to come.

📢 Join Save Our State (SOS) labor and community partners on March 6 to demand M&T Bank leave the Massachusetts High Tech Council! MHTC is making plans to gut our schools, healthcare, and essential services.

Women LEAD. Women ORGANIZE. Women WIN. And yet — women are still underpaid, pushed out of leadership, & forced to fight for rights we already won. Women workers have always driven progress. Now we’re defending it. This #WomensHistoryMonth, we don’t just honor women’s leadership. We protect it.

SEIU 509 MEMBERS: SAVE THE DATE 📝 Join us for Lobby Day on April 8! This is an opportunity for you and your coworkers to speak to your state legislators and advocate for funding and policy change that shape your day-to-day conditions & protect workers across the state.

Únete a nosotros el Miércoles, 4 de Marzo a las 6:30 PM ¿Cómo unirse a estas llamadas? Visite www.strategiesforchildren.org/930call, haga clic en el botón naranja de registro y complete el formulario. Recibirá un correo electrónico con el enlace de Zoom.

✊ This is what union power looks like. Over the past few weeks, Local 509 state workers sent 1,300 emails to their state legislators, urging them to protect our healthcare! Because of your advocacy, the Governor has asked the GIC not to increase co-pays and deductibles.

Team 509 stands shoulder to shoulder with @32bjseiu.bsky.social Harvard janitors fighting for a fair contract that secures livable wages & strong benefits. Solidarity!

Reverend Jesse Jackson stood with and for working people. He understood that there is no civil rights movement without workers’ rights and no economic justice without strong unions. He showed us that dignity on the job is inseparable from dignity in our democracy.

Congratulations to SMFA Professors of the Practice at Tufts on ratifying their first union contract! 🎉 We’re proud of our members for taking action and showing up to the bargaining table to win immediate raises, protections for international workers, and more.

There's a hearing happening right now on this. The Healey admin is touting the benefits of regressive corporate giveaways that all 11 members of our federal delegation voted against. They are fiscally irresponsible and set us up for harmful budget cuts in the future. #mapoli

📢 Local 509 state workers: send a message today to protect the healthcare you and your families rely on! The GIC proposed cost shifts are unacceptable - take action now: act.seiu.org/a/gic-funding-feb-2026