SMS text messaging (short code 525343) and member-submitted content — photos, videos, quotes, testimonials, and stories.
The SEIU 1199NE short code 525343 provides alerts and updates to subscribers, including key dates, event reminders, organizational updates, volunteer opportunities, and civic engagement notifications. The service may also be used to survey and gather feedback from subscribers on issues affecting their workplaces, industries, and communities.
When you opt in to the service, you will receive an SMS/MMS message confirming your subscription.
You can cancel the SMS/MMS service at any time by texting STOP to 525343. After you send the message STOP, you will receive a confirmation of your unsubscribe status. After this, you will no longer receive SMS messages from us.
To rejoin, text START to 525343 to opt back in.
If you need assistance, text HELP to 525343. You will receive instructions on how to use the service and how to unsubscribe.
Participating carriers include:
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Message and data rates may apply for messages sent to you from us and from you to us. Message frequency varies. For questions about your text or data plan, contact your wireless provider.
For questions about this service, email: mailbox@seiu1199ne.org
For information on how your data is handled, please review our privacy policy.
We may use SMS and MMS messaging to provide updates, request participation in activities, share opportunities to support our programs and initiatives, and to collect input from subscribers on issues impacting their workplaces and communities.
SEIU 1199NE regularly photographs, films, and records union activities, including meetings, rallies, picket lines, public events, trainings, conferences, celebrations, organizing activities, and similar events.
Photos, video, audio recordings, and other media captured by or on behalf of SEIU 1199NE at these activities or in public settings may be used by SEIU 1199NE and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), including its locals and affiliates, for union-related communications and activities.
This may include websites, social media, email, text communications, newsletters, flyers, organizing and campaign materials, press materials, presentations, advertising, education, archives, and internal or external union communications.
People attending or participating in these activities should understand that they may appear in photographs, video, or recordings.
In public areas and at events where photography or recording would reasonably be expected, individuals should generally not expect to remain outside photographs or recordings, subject to applicable law.
When someone directly provides SEIU 1199NE with a quote, statement, testimonial, story, photograph, video, audio recording, graphic, illustration, or other content—whether through a form, text message, email, direct message, interview, in person, or another method—providing that content gives SEIU 1199NE and SEIU permission to use it for union-related communications and activities.
Appearing in a photograph or video does not by itself mean a person owns copyright in that material. Copyright generally belongs to the person who created the photograph, recording, video, or other work.
If the person who provides content created or owns it—such as a photo they took themselves, a video they recorded, or a written statement they authored—they grant SEIU 1199NE and SEIU a non-exclusive license to reproduce, edit, adapt, publish, distribute, display, perform, translate, and otherwise use that material for the purposes described in these Terms & Conditions. This is a license to use the content, not a transfer of copyright ownership—the creator keeps ownership of content they created.
SEIU 1199NE may prepare material for different communications and formats without seeking new permission for every individual use. This may include:
SEIU 1199NE will not intentionally edit someone's words or image in a way that fundamentally misrepresents what they said or did.
SEIU 1199NE maintains a formal Media, Language & Likeness Release as an additional way to document permission when appropriate—it is not the only way someone can give SEIU 1199NE permission to use their name, image, likeness, voice, or statements.
Certain interviews, planned photography or video sessions, testimonials, campaigns, forms, or other activities may include a specific release. When a specific release is completed, its terms also apply.
The release is available at: join.seiu1199ne.org/release
If someone provides SEIU 1199NE with material they created or control that includes another identifiable person, they must have the right to provide the material and any permission required for SEIU 1199NE’s use of it.
If a minor (under 18 years of age) is a featured subject of a photo, video, recording, testimonial, or interview—or is otherwise intentionally used in a prominent way—parent or guardian authorization is required, subject to applicable law. Please contact us before featuring a minor in this way.
This does not require an individual release for every incidental appearance of a minor in the background of a photograph or recording taken at a public event.
Photographs, videos, audio recordings, graphics, illustrations, and other media appearing on SEIU 1199NE websites, social media accounts, publications, or other communications are not available for unrestricted third-party use simply because they are publicly visible online.
They may not be copied, reproduced, republished, distributed, altered, licensed, or otherwise used by another person, organization, campaign, employer, media outlet, or other third party without the express permission of SEIU 1199NE.
Permission from SEIU 1199NE to use particular material does not automatically grant permission to use an individual’s name, image, likeness, voice, statement, or other personal rights. Where separate authorization from an identifiable individual is required, the person or organization seeking to reuse the material is responsible for obtaining that authorization.
For questions about use of SEIU 1199NE media or to request permission, please contact SEIU 1199NE.
How we handle personal information is described in our Privacy Policy. Providing content to SEIU 1199NE does not automatically enroll you in our SMS text message program or other subscription communications.