In May 2021, over 100 1199SEIU home care members gathered at NYC City Hall. We thanked Senator Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for coming to the rally and pledging to fight for $400 billion to fund home care jobs as part of President Biden’s proposed American Jobs Plan. The American Jobs Plan calls for allocating money to raise wages, improve benefits and make it easier for workers to bargain collectively. Senator Schumer took three 1199 home care masks and pledged to wear them in Washington as he fights to secure funding for home care workers. Read More
1199ers will be among the tens of thousands of celebrants of LGBTQ Pride Month this month. They understand that queer liberation is an important labor issue. Read More
New York, NY – 1199SEIU President George Gresham today released the following statement regarding New York Presbyterian Hospital’s announcement of plans to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for its staff: Read More
Lockport, NY – Nearly 200 Healthcare workers at Eastern Niagara Hospital in Lockport have unanimously voted to ratify a new 2- year agreement with their employer this week. The caregivers are represented by 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East. Read More
While fewer children have been sick with COVID-19 compared with adults, children can become infected, can get sick, and spread the virus to others. As we move into summer, we need to think about how we keep our children and ourselves safe Read More
We are proud to welcome nearly 90 new members who work in the Schervier Pavilion nursing home at the St Anthony’s Community Hospital in Warwick, New York, into the 1199SEIU family. Read More
New York (June 7, 2021) – 1199SEIU, the largest healthcare union in the country, announced today that it is launching a $1.2 million television ad buy in support of Maya Wiley to be the next Mayor of New York City. Read More
President Biden’s Center for Disease Control announced recently that everyone 12 years and older is now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. This is great news for families with children and will help keep loved ones safe as we begin to spend more time with friends and family. Read More
Short-staffed rural facility recently acquired by Ed Farbenblum, majority owner of McGuire Group and owner of RCA Healthcare Management, LLC, left negotiations after refusing to pay beleaguered caregivers an additional $0.35. Read More
Party with a Purpose: Maya Wiley for Mayor Read More
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that most people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 can stop using masks and social distancing for most indoor and outdoor activities regardless of gathering size. This is a major milestone in the ght against Covid-19 and an opportunity for the fully vaccinated to begin returning to pre-pandemic life. You are fully vaccinated two weeks after your second P zer or Moderna vaccine or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Read More
It’s roughly one year after the COVID-19 pandemic peaked in New York and the state continues to make good progress vaccinating all New Yorkers, particularly health care workers. Nursing home workers are getting it done! Currently, 87% of nursing home residents and 58% of staff are fully vaccinated. Read More
In February 1199ers at Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) ratified a contract with historic gains that included significant wage increases, improved base rates and shift differentials, a $400 COVID-19 bonus, and preservation of the 1199SEIU Training and Employment Fund. Workers also placed introducing an official Juneteenth holiday on the docket for the next contract Read More
Following the victory of the progressive 1199 slate in 1987, the leadership voted to organize a forgotten sector of workers – the overwhelming female and multiethnic home healthcare workforce. Read More
Workers at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, already involved in the institution’s transition into the One Brooklyn Health System, are now also supporting the facility’s community vaccination program. Read More
On a frigid day in December 2020, two weeks before the year anniversary of their contract expiration, with a snowstorm looming, more than three hundred 1199SEIU members with families, friends and community supporters held an informational picket in Hudson, NY, demanding fair wages and affordable health benefits for workers at Columbia Memorial Hospital (CMH). By all reports, this was the strongest worker and community outcry at in decades. Read More
Home health workers across the Union have been leading the way for vaccinations and PPE for home-based care workers. In New York City, 1199SEIU homecare workers have helped organize a host of vaccination and PPE distribution events. Homecare members and staff have been helping workers get vaccinated and obtain PPE; they have been providing transportation assistance as well and helping their Union family with paperwork and vaccination appointments. Over 200 1199ers participated in a March 8 vaccination event at New York City’s Personal Touch Agency. Read More
Shortly after his election in 2008, President Barack Obama famously responded to Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act by reminding the opposition that “elections have consequences.” Indeed, they do. Read More
