Sharon Kitchel-Perdue Attends Health Care Affordability Summit in Washington, DC

January 15, 2010 -- Fifty 50 SEIU members from across the country – including our very own Sharon Kitchel-Perdue (right) - attended a Health Care Affordability Summit in Washington, DC this week, as part of a nation-wide day of action sponsored by SEIU and other grassroots, faith, labor, consumer and civil rights organizations.

Activists and leaders gathered on Capitol Hill to demonstrate solidarity on this critical issue and build support for common sense efforts to meld the best affordability provisions from the House and Senate bills into the final version.

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