Good Works Committee

Good Works Committee

Our Outreach to the Community and Members' Families in Need

Members Rallied with their Sisters and Brothers in District 1199/SEIU on Strike for a Fair Contract with Spectrum Healthcare in December

For almost 20 years, we have supported community organizations dedicated to providing opportunities for the neediest in Connecticut through our Good Works Committee. This effort has enabled our members to multiply support for local, grassroots advocacy through the power of our numbers.

Our members support a wide variety of community-based advocacy organizations that share our values and support our goal of building a more just and humane society. We have listed many of the local and regional charities to which our Union's Good Works Committee has contributed financial resources and member volunteers, along with links to their websites, below.

For the 2009 Thanksgiving holiday, our wider Union and our P-4 Council's own Good Works Committee joined forces again to collect, assemble, and distribute meals to those in need. More than two hundred turkey dinners were donated to area charities, as well as our own members whose families have faced extraordinary challenges this year.

In 2010, we are continuing to extend a helping hand to area charities and non-profits that support "good works," including a new project by the Chrysalis Center to aid veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). We also held another successful "Rosario 'Tony' Ferraro Memorial Thanksgiving Drive" to benefit area food pantries hit hard by the economic crisis.

We are also standing in solidarity with nursing home workers in District 1199/SEIU on strike for a fair contract with their employer. To help these working families during the Christmas holiday, our members "adopted a strike line" so they could keep their families' extended medical insurance through the month of December.