SEIU Healthcare Michigan

Title: Field Organizer

Location: Detroit, Michigan

SEIU Healthcare Michigan seeks to hire one or more Field Organizers to grow and strengthen our union.

JOB SUMMARY

The Field Organizer, under the leadership of a director or equivalent supervisor, implements strategy and plans for worksite leaders to respond positively and proactively to today’s challenges and opportunities in the workplace and is accountable for specific implementation of assignments.

DUTIES

• Applies plans for internal worksite leader recruitment, internal membership recruitment, contract campaigns that achieve positive results for the membership and involve large numbers of members, and worksite issue problem resolution.
• Develops issues and demands for contract campaigns with a team under supervision. Holds positive relationships with labor management representatives.
• Answers members’ questions, represents members at disciplinary proceedings, and initiates and pursues grievances, advancing through appropriate steps in accordance with relevant contract provisions to ensure CBA compliance.
• Advances Local political campaign goals in membership participation, COPE signups and recruitment of member political organizers.
• Participates, individually and as a team with other staff, under direction, to set goals, create plans to meet those goals and ensure accountability to those plans.
• Engages Executive Board members and worksite leaders in the application of the Local’s goals.
• Integrates strategic campaign functions, politics and new organizing for the Local’s growth into the daily work in the field.
• Participates in Local-wide mobilization efforts, new member events, unit meetings, leadership conferences and other multi-team activities.
• Provides effective feedback that assists the further development of Local strategy and implementation.
• Maintains complete, accurate and well-organized files and official records for inclusion in the membership database, master file, grievance and collective bargaining files.
• Provides Member Action Center staff with updates of events and information that members and worksite leaders need.
• Ability to negotiate collective bargaining agreements and lead contract campaigns.
• Other duties as assigned and directed.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• 1+ years or more of advocacy and/or organizing work.
• Experience in Union contract negotiations preferred
• College degree or equivalent life experience.
• Current valid driver’s license, working automobile and valid auto insurance, cell phone.
• Basic computer skills, with experience in organizing database systems preferred.
• Ability and willingness to work long and irregular hours in the field and office setting.
• Personal commitment to the mission and goals of SEIU Healthcare Michigan.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Salary for the position is $50,000 annually, and the position comes with substantial benefits, including a $9,300 annual combined car/phone allowance, paid holidays and vacations, fully paid health benefits, and a defined benefit pension plan fully paid by the employer.

BACKGROUND

SEIU Healthcare Michigan (HCMI) is a dynamic Detroit-based labor union representing thousands of nursing home, home care, and hospital workers throughout Michigan. HCMI members are active and dedicated, fighting to raise standards for healthcare workers across the state and ensure access to quality, affordable healthcare for all Michiganders.

HCMI’s is part of the two-million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU). With members throughout the US, Canada, and Puerto Rico, we are a diverse workers’ movement that believes in all workers should be valued and all people respected—no matter where we come from or what color we are; that all families and communities should thrive; and that we should leave a better and more equitable world for generations to come.

TO APPLY

Interested applicants should send a cover letter and resume to the Hiring Committee at info@seiuhealthcaremi.org.

HCMI is committed to equal opportunity, and encourages applicants of all ages, races, sexual orientations, genders, national origins, ethnicities, religions, and veteran status. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds and experiences related to our core organizational values and objectives to apply.