WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is the nation's largest healthcare union, representing more than 1.1 million nurses, doctors and healthcare workers. Following the Obama Administration's announcement today on contraceptive coverage, SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry issued the following statement:

RI Retirement Security Coalition supports all workers.

The foreclosure crisis just keeps getting worse. More than 12 percent of residential mortgage loans are in foreclosure or at least one payment past due. Millions of homes have been needlessly foreclosed on because banks have not modified homeowners’ mortgages to affordable levels. On top of this misery, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) funding for counseling to prevent foreclosures has been cut to zero.

Meanwhile Congressional Republicans enacted a budget slashing funding for OSHA the agency responsible for enforcing worker safety and health standards, as well as for the agency that issues tsunami warnings.

Above all, Republicans don't want to have to justify continued tax cuts for the rich. As quietly as possible, they want to make them permanent.

FACT CHECK: How big are the pensions that public sector workers collect?

Seven out of 10 public employees get less than $30,000 per year in retirement.

An example of this is SEIU Local 1000 state workers in California, who receive an average retirement pay of $28,755 per year. This is hardly a king's ransom--and many get by on much less.

After decades of full-time work for the state, the sad truth is that far too many retired state employees receive yearly amounts that force them to live in poverty.

Most CEOs don't want to give workers the freedom to decide for themselves whether to join together for a voice at work. It's not surprising, especially when you consider that CEOs are now paying themselves an average of 344 times more than workers.

It's just days until the election, and we've reached that inevitable point in the cycle when every American, Democrat or Republican, red or blue, left or right, longs for a little bit of peace.

But that is just not going to happen . . . .

Following Friday's unveiling of the Middle Class Working Families Task Force, Obama delivered his most emphatic public remarks on his support for labor unions, saying,"I don't see organized labor as part of the problem...To me, it's part of the solution," said President Obama following Friday's unveiling of the new administration's Middle Class Working Families Task Force.