Apply to be part of the Pittsburgh Organizing Internship
June 1 – August 8
The Pittsburgh Organizing Internship of SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is a hands-on work and learning experience for people who want to help build the movement for social and economic justice. As an Organizing Intern, you’ll learn fundamental skills of organizing while campaigning to empower workers and engage the community to support the campaign for good jobs and workers’ rights. You’ll work under the guidance of experienced organizers as part of an ongoing campaign. By helping healthcare workers and their allies in Pittsburgh come together to build power, you can help make a difference in the lives of an entire community.
The Pittsburgh Organizing Internship is a paid ten week internship program, starting June 1 and ending August 8, 2014. Organizing Interns will receive a stipend of $600 per week, minus taxes. Women and people of color are encouraged to apply.
For more information, click here to view the job description for the Organizing Intern.
Click here to complete the online application.
All applications are due by May 1, 2014
About SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania
We are the nurses, caregivers, dietary workers, lab technicians and housekeepers who work in Pennsylvania’s hospitals, nursing homes, home health care agencies, state health facilities, and auxiliary healthcare services. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania unites 25,000 healthcare workers from all areas of the healthcare industry. All together, we are largest union for healthcare workers in Pennsylvania. We work to protect patient care, expand access to quality healthcare for all, and to improve our working conditions. We accomplish these goals by organizing non-union healthcare workers, driving industry standards in our contracts, and fighting for legislation that affects healthcare in our state. SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania is affiliated with SEIU Healthcare, part of the Service Employees International Union which represents 2.1 million working people in healthcare, public services, and property services.