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Silent Vigils Urging Hazard Pay For Frontline Healthcare Workers Will Be Held at Westchester Medical Center Health Network Hospitals Throughout The Hudson Valley
May 14, 2020
WHAT: After several meetings and thousands of petition signatures were presented to Westchester Medical Center administrators, the…
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Consulate Nursing Home Named In OSHA, AHCA Complaints For Putting Patients, Caregivers At “High-Risk” Of Covid-19 Infection
May 12, 2020
FORT MYERS---Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has filed official complaints with federal and…
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Let's Move DC Forward
May 11, 2020
We are proud to endorse candidates who will fight for a healthy and equitable District of Columbia. We must elect representatives who will…
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Happy National Nurses’ Week!
May 11, 2020
This week is dedicated to you, and we are excited to share some special events designed to help you connect with other nurses nationwide,…
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Sun Sentinel Op-ed by RN Pat Diaz: Immigrant health care workers are on front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. More needed for the fight. Opinion by Pat Diaz
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…
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Florida’s Largest Healthcare Union 1199SEIU Facilitates Donation of 20,000 KN95 Masks to Help Protect Long-Term Care Workers on the Frontlines of COVID-19
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…
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Nursing Home Workers Still Lack PPE, Information While Serving Florida Seniors During COVID-19 Crisis
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,…
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Florida’s Largest Healthcare Union 1199SEIU Calls on State Officials To Ensure Better Protections For Nursing Home Residents, Patients From COVID-19
Apr 29, 2020
Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has called on the state government to better protect nursing…
Decontamination & Reuse of N-95 Masks
Apr 26, 2020
1199SEIU Position Statement on the Decontamination & Reuse of N-95 Masks
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Women In The Vanguard
Apr 23, 2020
When a Union of virtually all male pharmacy workers began organizing hospital workers in 1959, they unleashed an army of working women…

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