Record #: R2018-871   
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
Intro date: 7/25/2018 Current Controlling Legislative Body:
Final action: 7/25/2018
Title: Congratulations extended to Keith Kelleher on retirement as former president of Service Employees International Union Healthcare Illinois/Indiana/Missouri/Kansas
Sponsors: King, Sophia D., Moreno, Proco Joe, Hopkins, Brian , Dowell, Pat, Hairston, Leslie A., Sawyer, Roderick T., Mitchell, Gregory I., Harris, Michelle A., Beale, Anthony, Sadlowski Garza, Susan, Thompson, Patrick D., Cardenas, George A., Quinn, Marty, Burke, Edward M., Lopez, Raymond A., Foulkes, Toni, Moore, David H., Curtis, Derrick G., O'Shea, Matthew J., Willie B. Cochran, Munoz, Ricardo, Tabares, Silvana, Solis, Daniel, Maldonado, Roberto, Burnett, Jr., Walter, Ervin, Jason C., Taliaferro, Chris, Reboyras, Ariel, Santiago, Milagros, Waguespack, Scott, Mell, Deborah, Austin, Carrie M., Ramirez-Rosa, Carlos, Villegas, Gilbert, Mitts, Emma, Sposato, Nicholas, Laurino, Margaret, O'Connor, Patrick, Napolitano, Anthony V., Reilly, Brendan, Tunney, Thomas, Arena, John, Cappleman, James, Pawar, Ameya, Moore, Joseph, Silverstein, Debra L.
Attachments: 1. R2018-871.pdf



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Cappleman (46) Pawar (47) Moore (49) Silverstein (50) Resolution
Congratulations extended to Keith Kelleher on retirement as former President from Service Employees International Union Healthcare lllinois/lndiana/Missouri/Kansas
City Council Meeting July 25, 2018
RESOLUTION


WHEREAS, the members ofthe Chicago City Council are pleased to honor Keith Kelleher, former President of Service Employees International Union Healthcare lllinois/lndiana/Missouri/Kansas, for his hard work and dedication, as he retires on September 14, 2018; and
WHEREAS, Keith Kelleher's early work in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Detroit in the early 1980s led him to make a life-long commitment to organizing for social and economic justice; and
WHEREAS, Keith Kelleher was President ofthe Service Employees International Union Healthcare lllinois/lndiana/Missouri/Kansas since its creation in April 2008, until April 2017 and before that a field organizer, Lead Organizer, and Head Organizer of Legacy Local 880 since 1983, and Head Organizer of United Labor Unions Local 222 in Detroit, Ml prior to that since 1980; and
WHEREAS, in his 39 years of work as a labor and community organizer, Keith Kelleher has pioneered the organization of fast food, home care, child care and other low-wage workers—growing Legacy Local 880 from just seven members in 1983 to over 70,000 members by 2008, and growing SEIU HCIIMK from 83,000 members in 2008 to over 92,000 members by 2014; and winning living wages and first-ever healthcare for tens of thousands of Illinois workers; and
WHEREAS, Keith Kelleher was the Field Director of the national SEIU's "Homecare Task Force" from 1996-1998, traveling, researching, and house visiting homecare workers in over ten states, beginning the work which led to the organizing of hundreds of thousands of Homecare workers across the country; and
WHEREAS, today, more than 600,000 home care and child care workers in more than fifteen states across...

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