Hospital and clinic caregivers are fighting for living wages and quality benefits to help retain and recruit more staff to care for patients in rural Upstate communities
Governor Hochul’s State of the State address notes that “hospitals in New York are struggling financially more than in the rest of the U.S—42% of hospital facilities in New York had an operating deficit in 2021.”
We are pleased that New York’s Medicaid waiver has been approved. 1199SEIU and Greater New York Hospital Association have advocated for the waiver’s approval for more than a year.
A small portion of New York’s huge, unprecedented reserves can close the Medicaid funding gap, save struggling hospitals, and protect low-income seniors, children, families and people with disabilities. More than 7 million New Yorkers rely on state-funded Medicaid for healthcare coverage, yet Medicaid pays hospitals and their clinics 30% less than the actual cost of care.
Program will celebrate Dr. King’s work in the labor movement and commitment to workers’ rights through music, poetry, and dance with keynote speaker Mayor Malik Evans and remarks from NYS Assemblymember Demond Meeks
More than 75 nursing home workers at Kenmore’s Schofield Residence voted to ratify a 17-month contract with their employer yesterday.
Workers at West Broward Rehabilitation & Healthcare called out the facility for bouncing paychecks, reduced and mishandled insurance contributions and other “Scrooge-like” treatment this holiday season, and at a time when caregivers and patients throughout the state are put at risk due to a spiraling staffing, retention and care crisis.
URMC Workers Overwhelmingly Ratify Three-Year Ground-Breaking Contract Averting Second Longer Strike
Union workers at URMC joined a growing national movement of workplace strikes to demand living wages and quality comprehensive benefits to help retain and recruit more workers to help with staffing issues and to uplift some workers out of poverty
Union workers at URMC joined a growing national movement of workplace strikes to demand living wages and quality comprehensive benefits to help retain and recruit more workers to help with staffing issues and to uplift some workers out of poverty
Strike authorization vote set for tomorrow postponed, Union members will vote on agreement next week