As a union of healthcare workers, patient satisfaction is our highest calling. This is best secured by ensuring a highly motivated workforce with a strong voice in the workplace. We have fought to have a voice in patient care and in the workplace as a whole.
To that end, 1199SEIU works with employers, elected officials and healthcare advocates to improve the quality of healthcare and to make it available to all.
Through our efforts, we have helped secure billions of dollars in healthcare funding in New York State alone, with similar wins, though on a smaller scale, throughout regions we serve. We continue our work to strengthen the Affordable Care Act and advance legislation that expands access to quality care for all.
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
Again, organized labor has made a stunning victory in what was once thought of as an unwinnable race in upstate New York. Democrat Erie ...
Nov 17, 2011
On the heels of several sweeping victories for labor-friendly candidates, more than a hundred 1199SEIU New Jersey delegates gathered for...
Sep 22, 2011
Registered nurses at St. Mary?s Hospital for Children in Bayside voted overwhelmingly last week to join Local 1199 SEIU, United Healthca...
Sep 16, 2011
RN election follows a previous union vote of over 200 other caregivers in August; The 320 union staff at St. Mary?s say they now have a ...
Aug 9, 2011
After a combined 25 years of struggle to win their first contracts, workers at Excel Rehab and Nursing Center in Tampa, and Sunrise Reha...
Jan 1, 1970
1199 members from DC and Maryland rallied on March 27h with hundreds of their SEIU brothers and sisters at the U.S.Supreme Court to stan...
Jan 1, 1970
On March 9, members of 1199SEIU rallied at the DC City Council to fight back against a plan to slash services at United Medical Center (...