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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!

Oct 10, 2012
Two hundred fifty Home Health Aides at Best Care Long Island have just joined with 1199SEIU in a unanimous election. The workers joined ...
Oct 9, 2012
Nursing home workers at Plaza Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Elizabeth, members of the powerful healthcare workers union, 1199S...
Oct 2, 2012
Scores of 1199SEIU homecare members held a September 28 lunch-hour picket outside the Manhattan offices of the First Chinese Presbyteria...
Sep 27, 2012
After months of stalled negotiations with their employer, Michael Konig, more than 300 New Jersey 1199SEIU nursing home workers have a n...
Sep 24, 2012
Sign the Petition to Oust Daniel Straus from NYU Law School's Boaord of Trustees On Tuesday, September 11th, New York Univer...
Aug 2, 2012
Miami, FL ? Forging a new era in labor-management relations, University of Miami Hospital employees and management have worked together ...
Aug 1, 2012
Contact: Jose Suarez, 1199SEIU, 305-340-1085, jose.suarez@1199.org ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Miami, FL ? After fini...
Jul 31, 2012
For the second year running, 1199SEIU is up at Baltimore?s Penn Station. Our billboards celebrating the special legacy of Coretta Scott ...
Jul 30, 2012
Over 75 Long Island home care workers ? along with more than 100 of their family members ? enjoyed a Family Fun Day picnic in Nassau Cou...
Jun 8, 2012
More than 60 nursing home caregivers at Oak Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center picketed in front of their nursing home today to pro...
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