WORCESTER — Roughly 200 Planned Parenthood workers across Massachusetts are now union members. They voted by mail Wednesday to join 1199SEIU. SEIU is the biggest health care union in the country. 

Marlishia Aho, the spokesperson for 1199SEIU, said it will help Planned Parenthood expand care by recruiting and keeping workers. 

Massachusetts is expecting an increase in patients seeking reproductive care following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Aho said this will help workers re-affirm their commitment and support to women and reproductive health. 

“This is all of our fight. 1199 continues to work collaboratively with all of our reproductive justice partners,” Aho said. “We firmly stand behind the right to choose and we continue to fight tooth and nail to preserve this most basic freedom for people and codify abortion rights into federal law. We will continue to do that and lean on the work here in Massachusetts because it’s so important.”

This covers all workers at planned parenthood locations in Worcester, Springfield, Marlborough and Boston.