1199 Magazine

Oct 20, 2016
Participants in this year’s Youth Mentoring Program (YMP) celebrated their growth and achievement with a celebration held Aug. 18 at…
Oct 19, 2016
The economic crisis of 2007- 2008 was precipitated largely by a collapse of the sub-prime home mortgage market; these loans were peddled…
Oct 19, 2016
1199SEIU members are standing firm against attempts by Rite Aid, one of the largest drugstore chains in the nation, to win major contract…
Oct 18, 2016
It was the Fight for $15 campaign that first attracted Beverly Miller to political action. She saw how effective activism could be. Miller…
Oct 18, 2016
Things you need to know as we head into Election Day.
Oct 18, 2016
Hundreds of 1199SEIU members at two NYU-Langone Medical Center facilities in New York City held informational pickets Aug. 31 to protest the…
Oct 18, 2016
Members at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, NY, took their safe staffing fight on the road Aug. 25 with a mobile billboard…
Oct 18, 2016
1199SEIU’s Training and Employment Funds (TEF) and the New York Yankees teamed up on Sept. 14 to raise money to train bilingual healthcare…
Oct 18, 2016
Just before midnight on Monday, Sept. 12, after hours of last minute negotiations, 1199SEIU members at Cedar Oaks nursing home in South…
Oct 18, 2016
Eighty-four years ago, 1199’s late President Leon Davis and a group of his fellow pharmacists and drugstore workers came together to form…



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