Greg Kelley is the president of SEIU Healthcare Illinois Indiana Missouri & Kansas, which represents 90,000 healthcare, child care, nursing home and home healthcare workers across the four states. He is the first African American to head SEIU HCIIMK, the fastest-growing local union in the Midwest.
Kelley’s 20-plus years of labor experience began as a rank-and-file union member organizing with SEIU Local 46 at the Cook County Clerk’s office, where Greg began organizing his co-workers to improve workplace conditions. Since then, he has held numerous organizing and political roles, as well as board seats with the Chicago Federation of Labor, the Chicago Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, United Working Families, and the Service Employees International Union, SEIU.