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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!

Jan 26, 2012
Approximately 1,300 1199 SEIU caregivers from thirteen nursing homes owned by Genesis HealthCare in New Jersey have accepted a settlemen...
Jan 25, 2012
1199SEIU, New Jersey?s largest long-term-care union, has called upon the state legislature in Trenton to pass the marriage equality legi...
Jan 18, 2012
Jan 2, 2012
Some 130 caregivers at Odd Fellow Nursing Home and other community supporters, braved the winter chill on January 25 and went to the pic...
Dec 31, 2011
1199ers joined with Good Jobs Better Baltimore, elected leaders, and faith and youth organizations at a Baltimore City Hall press confer...
Dec 14, 2011
For Immediate Release: December 14, 2011 Contact: Mindy Berman | 518.229.0486 | mindyb@1199.org Today
Dec 10, 2011
Members of the largest long-term care union in New Jersey, 1199SEIU caregivers gathered on December 9 at the headquarters of Seniors Man...
Dec 8, 2011
Seniors Management North 1114 Wynnwood Avenue Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 Across from Wegmans at Haddonfie...
Nov 30, 2011
West Palm Beach, FL ? Last night, a majority of the healthcare workers at Good Samaritan Medical Center became the fourth hospital owned...
Nov 20, 2011
In an act of solidarity on November 17, the two-month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, more than fifty 1199SEIU New Jerse...
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