One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. With at least 30 worker deaths and many more family members lost to the coronavirus, a community at the epicenter of the pandemic has been left reeling. Read More
Miramar—In the midst of a widespread shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the state’s largest healthcare union has facilitated a donation of 20,000 KN95 masks that will be distributed to long-term care facilities across the state. Read More
MIAMI----Two months into the COVID-19 crisis and with the numbers of confirmed cases spiking in the state’s long-term care (LTC) facilities, nursing home workers still are facing dangerous shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and a lack of information from employers while they care for Floridians most vulnerable to the highly contagious virus. Read More
Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has called on the state government to better protect nursing home residents and caregivers as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak surges across the state. Patients and workers at long-term care facilities face special risks against the highly contagious virus. Read More
Montefiore Nyack Hospital on Wednesday celebrated the discharge of its 400th patient who has recovered from COVID-19 since the hospital began treating people for the virus. Read More
1199SEIU Position Statement on the Decontamination & Reuse of N-95 Masks
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I tested positive for coronavirus or was put on quarantine. What should I do? Read More
When a Union of virtually all male pharmacy workers began organizing hospital workers in 1959, they unleashed an army of working women leaders. Those leaders have helped to make 1199 the largest and most powerful healthcare union in the nation. Today, the executive committee of the Union is 2/3 women. Read More
In March, Massachusetts home health workers welcomed Joe Kennedy III and U.S. Senator Ed Markey into their homes to hear about the struggles of personal care attendants and walk a day in our shoes to learn about the real-life experience of caregiving. Kennedy is running against Markey for the U.S. Senate seat representing Massachusetts. Kennedy visited several homecare workers in Springfield, while Markey spent the day with PCA Janice Guzman and her family in Worcester. Read More
To prepare for the upcoming election and U.S. Census, as well as educating members about the realities of health disparities and systemic conditions in our communities, 1199ers gathered recently for an unprecedented series of meeting held in the five boroughs of New York City and on Long Island. Read More
As the Coronavirus epidemic unfolds, at least 112,000 members of 1199 are among the most vulnerable in our nation. Those are the members of 1199’s Retired Members Division (RMD). Read More
Dozens of 1199SEIU Florida members recently turned Tallahassee purple this February for Senior Day, one of the most important public events this Legislative Session. Caravans of CNAs and other workers with 1199SEIU, the first labor union to be a community sponsor of the high profile action, made their voices heard for seniors and their caregivers to lawmakers, news media and other key audiences. Read More
Resources and services to help limit economic hardship during this time Read More
MIAMI----With COVID-19 surging in Florida, the state’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has outlined a variety protocols and demands to government officials designed protect caregivers and to prevent an even more dire public health crisis caused by the highly contagious coronavirus. Read More
1199 is moving from its famed Manhattan headquarters on West 43rd St., but the building’s proud history lives on. Read More
Talk to residents of Baltimore and DC about the candidates who will make our cities work for working people. Read More
Info for workers furloughed or laid off due to COVID-19 Read More
I see the headlines on the News
I watch my family’s panicked faces
An illness coming for us all
Nondiscriminatory to our races Read More
Traditionally, this time of year holds the promise of renewal. But right now, the United States is in the grips of a pandemic.
America’s spring will never be the same. Read More
As this magazine goes to press, we are facing an unprecedented moment in modern history. Much of the world is engulfed in a pandemic,
with skyrocketing infection rates and more people falling ill every day. Read More