Dec 30, 2022
As we say goodbye to 2022 and usher in the New Year, we have many achievements to look back on to make us proud, as well as hopeful. There are promising signs on the horizon for the year ahead.
Dec 23, 2022
Rochester, NY – Yesterday, 1199SEIU members at The Pearl Nursing Center on Portland Avenue held an informational picket to call attention to their lack of a fair contract. Nursing home workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.
Dec 20, 2022
Buffalo, NY – Last month, union workers at Promesa’s Alba de Vida clinic participated in Labor Management Meetings to address safety planning at the lower west side clinic. That safety planning helped make life-saving changes in their workplace prior to a shooting at the clinic in Buffalo.
Dec 20, 2022
Direct care pay has historically remained low due to multiple factors, including under-investment in long-term care services and intersecting legacies of sexism and racism that undervalue caregiving work and those who provide it.
Dec 20, 2022
Check out some of the upcoming events for 2023 in the Maryland/DC region.
Dec 9, 2022
MIAMI---Essential long-term care workers across Florida are being shortchanged by nursing home operators in violation of a new state legislation requiring a $15 per hour minimum wage, according to 199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, Florida’s largest union of nursing home and hospital caregivers.
Dec 8, 2022
Albany/New York –On Thursday, nursing home workers, members of 1199SEIU, will call for full and swift implementation of the package of nursing home reform laws signed by Gov. Hochul earlier this year. Initially passed by the legislature in 2021, the reforms include provisions that require nursing homes to meet minimum staffing levels of 3.5 hours per resident per day and spend at least 70% of revenue on resident care.
Dec 5, 2022
Members of the public are encouraged to RSVP by calling (585) 730-6433. Anyone attending the memorial event is asked to wear their union t-shirt or something featuring Frederick Douglass. Masking is encouraged and all are welcome.
Dec 2, 2022
Buffalo, NY – Yesterday, 40 homecare workers from Schofield Home Health Care voted to join 1199SEIU, making it one of the first Licensed Home Health Care agencies in Buffalo to unionize in Western New York. Homecare Workers will be represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest healthcare union in the country.
Dec 1, 2022
“We commend AG James for investigating and exposing for-profit nursing home operators who profit from taxpayer monies at the expense of resident care. The allegations outlined in this lawsuit are appalling and tragic yet all too familiar to nursing home workers who experience the impact of resources being funneled away from the bedside and into the owner’s pockets.
