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Caregivers & Service Workers To Picket New York's Sixth Largest Employer, URMC Today In Demand For Living Wages & Quality Benefits
Nov 13, 2023
Contract covering 1,800+ union workers expired last month escalating labor tensions at sixth largest employer in the state.
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Caregivers & Service Workers To Picket New York's Sixth Largest Employer, URMC On Monday 11/13 In Demand For Living Wages & Quality Benefits
Nov 10, 2023
Contract covering 1,800+ union workers expired last month escalating labor tensions at sixth largest employer in the state.
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Statement from Roxey Nelson of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East On Ohio, Florida Ballot Initiatives Protecting Women’s Reproductive Rights
Nov 8, 2023
“Our union of Florida healthcare workers are very proud of Ohio voters who have protected women’s reproductive rights and told partisan…
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Contract Expires: 1,800 Union Caregivers & Service Workers At New York's Sixth Largest Employer, URMC To Issue Notice To Hold Informational Picket
Nov 1, 2023
New York State Assemblymember Meeks Calls on URMC To Settle Fair Agreement
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Union Contract Covering 1800 Caregivers & Service Workers At New York's Sixth Largest Employer, URMC Will Expire Monday 10/30 If No Agreement Is Reached
Oct 27, 2023
Healthcare & Service Workers Demand Living Wage To Recruit & Retain More Staff While Leaders At University of Rochester Have Seen Their…
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Nursing Home Workers Began Receiving Some Of The More Than $80,000 Dollars in Owed Bonuses Thursday At Embattled Tonawanda Nursing Home
Oct 27, 2023
Informational Picket & Press Conference Set For This Week Called-Off After Downstate For-Profit Owners Began Paying Two of Three Owed…

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Nursing Assistants Picket Over Wages at Centers Nursing homes
Nov 28, 2018
QUEENSBURY — Low pay and expensive health insurance is leaving the Centers nursing homes understaffed, workers said as they picketed outside…
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Emerald South shutdown set for Jan. 31, 2019
Nov 27, 2018
A timeline for the shutdown of Emerald South Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has been set, with closure expected by late January.
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Emerald South Nursing Home to Close After Slew of Scandals
Nov 13, 2018
The New York State Department of Health appointed The Grand Healthcare System to operate Emerald North and Emerald South Nursing and…
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‘The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale’: Postal Workers Speak Out
Oct 17, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Jonathan Smith, head of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, entered the Hunts Point Station post office in the Bronx on the…
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State's health care workforce up 18% in past decade
Oct 16, 2018
Health care employment in the state increased by more than 18% in the past 10 years, more than double the growth rate of overall employment,…
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CMS preparing rules for nursing home staff fines, home personal care oversight
Oct 15, 2018
The CMS is looking to increase its oversight of post-acute care settings through new civil money penalties on nursing home staff and a new…
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