Eric Emmanuel is a doorman in San Francisco and an elected leader of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1877. Since immigrating to the U.S. from Pakistan as a young boy, Emmanuel has been able to fulfill most all of his dreams and is very proud to be an American citizen. In the coming years, he looks forward to working with his union and state representatives to help pass California's landmark universal healthcare bill, ABX-1.

Blog Entries by Eric Emmanuel

Just Work: CA's Healthcare Plan, a Good Choice for Working Families

Posted December 20, 2007 | 03:01 PM (EST)


This year -- just like every year for the past four years -- I had to choose between taking a significant pay cut or losing my family's health insurance. It's an impossible choice. How do you choose between putting food on the family table and having the peace of mind...

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