Press Center and Media Advisories
May 14, 2020
WHAT: After several meetings and thousands of petition signatures were presented to Westchester Medical Center administrators, the…
May 12, 2020
FORT MYERS---Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has filed official complaints with federal and…
May 8, 2020
I am an orthopedic surgical nurse at University Hospital and Medical Center in Tamarac, FL, and simply doing my job could be fatal. It’s not…
May 2, 2020
Miramar—In the midst of a widespread shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the state’s largest healthcare union has facilitated a…
May 1, 2020
MIAMI----Two months into the COVID-19 crisis and with the numbers of confirmed cases spiking in the state’s long-term care (LTC) facilities,…
Apr 29, 2020
Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has called on the state government to better protect nursing…
WEEKLY CLIPS
Mar 11, 2019
Influencing the way politicians vote is a big business.
Last year alone, clients in New York City spent a total $102.6 million to help your…
Mar 8, 2019
BUFFALO, N.Y (WKBW) — Healthcare workers met with local elected officials Friday to warn of the consequences of Medicaid cuts proposed for…
Feb 27, 2019
This week, a 45-year-old immigrant in the U.S. illegally died in Border Patrol custody. His death follows the December deaths of 7-year-old…
Feb 27, 2019
Jumaane D. Williams, a Democratic councilman from Brooklyn, was elected as New York City public advocate Tuesday night, notching a victory…
Feb 22, 2019
ALBANY – Labor leaders and top government officials in New York warned that Janus v. AFSCME, the Supreme Court case decided last June, was a…
Jan 31, 2019
Now that the presidential race has started (God help us), candidates have started discussing policies — and because the health care system…