The SEIU Virginia State Council unites the frontline union members of SEIU 32BJ and SEIU Virginia 512 – home care workers and airport workers, county/city employees and janitors – to fight for good union jobs and justice for all working people across the Commonwealth.

SEIU 32BJ represents commercial office cleaners and security officers in Northern Virginia and Richmond, and airport service workers such as cabin cleaners, terminal cleaners, security officers, baggage handlers and passenger service workers at DCA and Dulles airports. With more than 175,000 members in 11 states, 7,000 of whom live and work in Virginia, 32BJ SEIU is the largest property service workers union in the country.

SEIU Virginia 512 represents essential home care workers across the Commonwealth, and frontline county and city employees in Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Richmond, including nurses, social workers, mental health professionals, sanitation workers, librarians, parks staff, maintenance workers, engineers, and more. SEIU Virginia 512 members fight for quality public services, good union jobs, and justice for all working families in Virginia.

No matter where we come from, what we do for a living, or the color of our skin, Virginia’s working people want the same things: family-sustaining wages, paid leave, quality health care, justice at work and in our communities, and a vibrant democracy where we can all participate.

The best way to achieve these goals is to ensure that every hard-working Virginian has the right to join a union and collectively bargain for a better future.

Working people and legislators partnered in 2020-2021 to pass laws that put us on a path to $15, enabled collective bargaining for tens of thousands of local government workers, and established critical protections for frontline workers, moving Virginia from the worst state for workers to the 22nd best. Since that time, however, we have slipped backwards to #28, and working people are struggling.

Working people continue to organize, mobilize, vote, and demand better pay and benefits, a seat at the table, and legislation to make Virginia #1 for workers. The SEIU Virginia State Council supports, empowers, and amplifies the voices of working people in this fight!