New leader for largest Mass. healthcare union
Tyrék D. Lee, Sr. has been named the new leader of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.
Tyrék D. Lee, Sr. has been named the new leader of the 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, a union that includes hospital, nursing home, home care, and clinical employees throughout the state.
Lee will take over as the acting executive vice president of the union, which has over 2,000 members in Central Massachusetts. He succeeds Veronica Turner, who will join the union’s multi-state leadership team as the senior executive vice president over health systems.
Lee, who joined the union in 2002 as a telephone operator at Boston Medical Center, will be the first African American man to lead a major statewide union in the Commonwealth, according to a release from 1199SEIU.
“I know firsthand what it feels like to work full time but still have to choose between paying rent and buying groceries,” Lee said in a statement. “As a movement and as healthcare workers, we have significant momentum right now on key issues like wages, earned sick time, racial, social and economic justice and key policy initiatives that will ensure millionaires pay their fair share and that will protect community hospitals.”
In his previous role as vice president at 1199SEIU, Lee played a key role in the union’s organizing, political activism and coalition building, and he has also helped to advance $15 wages.
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