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2026 Delegate + Leadership Assembly
Nov. 20-21
Tacoma, WA
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2025 Delegate + Leadership Assembly
2026 plan
All In to Win
is the path to our union's future.
From our roots as a fighting union, to our current journey towards racial justice, we’re all in to be a member led union – where members are leading and doing the work to unite our coworkers, care for our patients and clients and hold our employers accountable.
When all members are engaged and standing together, we can win great contracts, recruit and retain our coworkers and continue to grow our union. Our fates are intertwined and by standing together we can win what we need – racial justice; good jobs we can raise our families on, quality care, stronger labor laws for all workers, respect at work and stronger, healthier communities.
We’re working together to create real changes. We are all in to win.
Member Engagement
All in To Win is a deeper way of connecting from top to bottom throughout the union. Each leader will be in a defined network with a board member, and teams will work together to strategize, mentor, and support each other, and win on our issues.
By the end of 2026, all chapters will have a dashboard that will share what’s happening in our workplaces and our union strength. Leaders will review the dashboard at leadership meetings to inform the work we need to do. All Executive Board pods will be meeting regularly to ensure we are building a strong member driven union.
Ensuring we have strong membership in all of our chapters:
- 80% membership in Public Sector
- 95% membership in Private Sector
Member App
Launching a member app to provide seamless access to union information and resources and boost interaction.
Goal = 10,000 members who have downloaded and are logged on within one year
Member Resource Center
Launching a Member Resource Center which will give members faster access to answers and seamless connections to their delegates.
Politics
We need to have a system that benefits working people rather than billionaires and big corporations. We will continue to unite with other SEIU members across the country to ensure working people have a voice at the Federal level. We will build on our legislative wins in Olympia and Helena to ensure our state governments have healthcare workers’ and patients’ as a priority. We will continue to bring electeds into our bargaining and organizing work to build power and deepen our relationships.
We cannot achieve this vision without resources and engaged members!
Goal = 3% increase to HLF. Increase from 23% to 26% participation
Goal = 10% of our members engaged in politics before the General Election
Reaching these goals will help secure a fair playing field for workers against employers and our ongoing fights for: healthcare funding, quality, and comprehensive access, housing for all, health systems accountability, climate action, a sustainable, progressive tax code, and more.
- In 2026 it will also includeintegrating our recent policy wins like WA Safe + Healthy and Unemployment Insurance for Striking Workers into our work in chapters.
- Our delegates and leaders will focus on bringing forward the stories that lawmakers need to hear from the frontlineand do the critical work ofensuring their coworkers know the connection between politics and our work.
New Organizing
All healthcare workers deserve an opportunity to exercise our voices. And as union members, we build power for ourselves when we organize others in our systems. Our International Union has a goal of organizing 1 Million new workers in the next 10 years. Our union’s goal to support that work is:
Goal = 7,500 new members welcomed into our union in next 5 years. That would make us strong! That’s 7,500 new workers in our union!In 2026, we will continue to grow our union in Washington and Montana! We see a path to 1,500 new members with the participation of at least 100 member organizers (members who are willing to talk to non-union workers) throughout the year to reach our goal. We will empower a member-led union to assist in organizing colleagues within their facilities, systems and industries through member organizing workshops, digital outreach, expanded neutrality agreements and direct conversations.
This is how we build a member-led union- by leading together, learning together, and winning together to create a union for all.
Collective Bargaining and Contract Enforcement
We will build off of our successes in 2025 at the bargaining table by engaging over 7,000 members in fighting for great contracts in 2026. We will build bargaining teams rooted in belonging and challenge our employers to join us in advancing racial justice throughout our negotiations. Our proposal priorities will reflect our values:
- $25 minimum starting wages at every chapter
- Securing commitments to explore options for free healthcare for healthcare workers and stronger retirement benefits
- Winning minimum wage standby pay and enforcing our rights under the law for when we are on-call
- Increasing access to our Multi-Employer Training fund and expanding our apprenticeship programs
- Clear rules about the implementation and usage of Artificial Intelligence
- Strong union protections like expanding union leave and access to our members when they are at work
- Enforcing our rights to uninterrupted meal and rest breaks
- Parity across our healthcare systems with the goal of common contracts and bargaining at one table
- Improving and enforcing our rights to a safe and healthy workplace
Racial Justice
As we continue our journey to become an anti-racist organization we know we can only win by centering the inextricable link between economic and racial justice and embracing belonging and bridging in everything we do.
Launch CaucusesNew structures for Union leaders that foster belonging for member leaders who identify as Black, Native Hawaiian, Asian Pacific Islanders, Native American, Indigenous, Latinx, White allies and LGBTQ+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual and other connected identities).
Launch of Racial Justice Committee #3With a focus on factors that contribute to member leader participation, including the launch of a member survey.