Mary Mitchell

Member/Leader, SEIU Local 880 (ACORN affiliate organization); Member/Leader, ACORN Chicago, 1990-2008; Member/Leader, SEIU HCIIMK*, starting in 2008; Retiree Leader, SEIU HCIIMK *HCIIMK was a new Local organized in 2008 and composed of SEIU Local 880’s 70,000 homecare and childcare members, SEIU Local 4’s 10,000 nursing home members, and SEIU Local 20’s 7,000 hospital and clinic workers.

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Mary Mitchell was a homecare worker at Help at Home, a private sector for-profit company. She served as an active rank and file member on the Help at Home negotiating committee and took part in Local 880 and HCIIMK’s political, community and union campaigns. In this interview, she discusses being an ACORN member and Local 880 homecare member.