Records relate to Local 250 negotiations with various hospitals and healthcare institutions as they campaigned for improved working conditions and wages, and rallied against the proposed two-tier wage system. Includes the following strikes and contract negotiations: the 1982-1983 Laurel Grove Hospital strike, the 1983 Merritt and Peralta Hospitals strike, Alta Bates and Herrick Hospitals negotiations, Associated Hopitals of the East Bay negotiations, the 1984 strike against Shoreline South Convalescent Home, and the 1986 strike against Kaiser hospitals in Northern California.

This subseries also includes a 1985 East Bay Express article, No One Home: The Sad Story of Shoreline Convalescent Home, and the SEIU publication We Won: The 1988 Affiliated Hospital Strike describing the long conflict between Local 250 and seven hospitals in San Franciso and Daly City.