SEIU United Healthcare Workers West

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**SEIU UHW**

SEIU United Health Care Workers West
Founded	In the 1930s
Members	140,000
Country	United States
Head union	SEIU
Key people	Sal Rosselli, president
Office location	Oakland, California
Website	www.seiu-uhw.org

The SEIU United Health Care Workers West is a statewide local union of the Service Employees International Union in California in the United States. It has a membership of 140,000.

UHW was created by the merger of two SEIU local unions: Local 250 in Northern California and Local 399 in Southern California. The larger of those two locals, Local 250, began when workers at San Francisco General Hospital, who were inspired by the 1934 general strike in San Francisco, organized a union at their hospital in 1934.

The President of the union is Sal Rosselli, who has been the president for nearly 20 years. UHW is headquarted in Oakland, California and has offices statewide. UHW is an industrial union representing all classifications of health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, home health agencies as well as homecare workers. UHW is one of the fastest growing unions in the nation and is very diverse, with its members speaking more than 50 languages.

Recent victories of the union include winning a six-week strike against Sutter Health in San Francisco, the conclusion of successful negotiations with Catholic Healthcare West, and a statewide contract victory with HCA, the nation's largest hospital company. Most of the union's current organizing work is being carried out in Southern California.