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Healthcare Workers Fight For $15!

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Healthcare workers have dedicated their lives to providing quality care, but too many caregivers are trapped in poverty. Many healthcare workers make less than $15 an hour and are struggling to pay for food, housing, utilities and other basic essentials. This has a negative impact on patient care, because low wages hurt recruitment and retention of qualified caregivers.

The Fight For $15 is not just about low-wage caregivers, it is about the future of all healthcare jobs and our entire industry. By raising up our low-wage sisters and brothers, we can put upward pressure on employers to improve wages for every healthcare worker. Our vision is that ALL healthcare jobs should be good jobs with a living wage, health benefits and a union. This fight is even more urgent as billionaires keep amassing more wealth, undermining our economy and our democracy.

Fill out the form to the right to get involved today – Together, healthcare workers can win the Fight For $15 for ALL working people!

Jul 15, 2014
Inequality is out of control in NY, and workers want to ensure that new healthcare jobs in outpatient facilities are good union jobs so ...
Jul 14, 2014
199SEIU members at Regency Grande Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dover, NJ, made a showing of strength and unity at an energetic p...
Jul 8, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 CONTACT: Jim McNeill, 202.213.1614, Jim.McNeill@HardshipAtHopkins.org | Rae Raw...
Jul 3, 2014
Florida Nursing Home Caregivers Secure More Time to Care for Their Residents Workers agree to new contract with guaranteed r...
Jul 1, 2014
jeff.hall@1199.org | 617-281-8384 | http://www.twitter.com/1199mass Lexington Nursing Home Caregivers Strike after Zenith Co...
Jun 30, 2014
1199 members, along with social justice and civil rights activists, will rally on January 14 in Annapolis to call on lawmaker to raise t...
Jun 30, 2014
With a strike planned to begin on April 9, contract talks between 2,000 members of 1199SEIU and Baltimore?s Johns Hopkins hospital manag...
Jun 30, 2014
1199SEIU members at Johns Hopkins Hospital are holding a major rally and march from 12-3pm on Saturday, May 10 at McKeldin Square in dow...
Jun 25, 2014
Union that has pushed candidates over the top will do whatever it takes to win Local Living Wage Laws, Dream Act, Campaign Finance Refor...
Jun 19, 2014
Caregivers head into negotiations with employers today as master contract affecting over 110,000 healthcare workers at over 100 hospital...
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