“I feel this ominous responsibility to take the union to the next level.  I believe I’m the right leader at the right moment for what’s required to win for workers.” To her, “to win for workers” means to unionize more of them to lift their standards of living and give them more political power.

In her decades of organizing, Ms. Henry became a master practitioner of the labor strategy that companies hate most: corporate campaigns. In one major success, she led a four-year corporate campaign against Catholic Health Care West, a chain of California hospitals, branding it antiworker and lining up the support of several Catholic bishops.

That campaign led to unionizing 17,000 workers at 27 hospitals.

“I would hope she moves away from corporate campaigns,” said Randel Johnson, senior vice president for labor at the United States Chamber of Commerce. “The S.E.I.U. has turned them into an aggressive art form. The vast majority of them are unfair.”

But Ms. Henry has no plans to relent. “We have to figure out how to reach out to nonunion workers like never before because of these tough economic times,” she said.   By spending $250 million a year on organizing, the union’s leaders expect to expand membership to three million by decade’s end, meaning the S.E.I.U. would represent 20 percent of all unionized workers.

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	1. Our company has conducted an Employee Opinion Survey during the last 12 months.
	2. We have had a staff reduction (layoff) during the past 12 months.
	3. We have frozen salaries across the board or for select groups during the past 6 months.

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	1. Our hospital has conducted an Employee Opinion Survey during the last 12 months.
	2. We have had a staff reduction (layoff) during the past 12 months.
	3. We have frozen salaries across the board or for select groups during the past 6 months.

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	1. Nurses have input into decisions about nurse/patient ratios.
	2. Our hospital has conducted an opinion survey for nurses during the last 12 months.
	3. We have had a staff reduction (layoff) during the last 12 months.