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Our Recipe to Defend Healthcare: Member Strength + Political Power
Feb 25, 2025
We are not alone in the fight to protect Medicaid. Using our vast member strength and standing with our political and community allies, we…
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Massachusetts PCAs Fight Back
Feb 25, 2025
Members join forces with activists and community allies to protect senior care.
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Editorial: We are Many, They are Few
Feb 25, 2025
If we are to defend our rights and overcome the extremist Republicans in Washington D.C., working people will need to come together as one.
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1199SEIU Praises Passage of Hospital Oversight Bill
Feb 25, 2025
More than 85,000 healthcare workers who make up the 1199SEIU membership in Massachusetts, praised lawmakers on December 31 for passing…
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Nantucket Members Negotiate 19 Percent Increases
Feb 25, 2025
The hard work of the bargaining committee at Nantucket Cottage Hospital in Massachusetts led to a contract victory in mid-January including…
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Massachusetts Psychiatric Hospital Members Win 32 Percent Raises
Feb 25, 2025
In late December, more than 300 members at Bridgewater State Hospital in southern Massachusetts celebrated a contract victory with average…
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DC Member Receives National Award
Feb 25, 2025
The Executive Board of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) recognized Washington D.C. member Claudia Martinez in January for…
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Massachusetts Members Win 6.5 Percent Across-the-board Increases
Feb 24, 2025
1199ers at Tobey Hospital, in Wareham, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, reached a tentative agreement with Southcoast Health system on January…
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Members Celebrate MLK Day in Rochester
Feb 24, 2025
More than two-hundred 1199SEIU and SEIU Local 200United members in Rochester celebrated and honored the life, legacy, and contributions of…
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Remembering Dan North
Feb 24, 2025
Commemorating a Pioneering Chronicler of 1199 Member Activism
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