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The Service Employees International Union continues to make strides when it comes to organizing hospitals and healthcare facilities in Massachusetts. Last week more than 400 workers at Union Hospital in Lynn voted to join the Local 1199 branch of the union. The successful organizing vote comes on the heels of a victory last month when the SEIU was granted the right to represent nearly 500 workers at Carney Hospital in Boston and three months ago 800 workers at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center voted in favor of joining the union. The successful votes represent a sea change in the Boston area where for decades no hospitals were unionized.