Nov 11, 2021
Nadine Clerge-Remy, Kellee Grungo, Damian Rivera, and Sarah Stallings are members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East who work at Complete Care at Marcella in Burlington Township, NJ.
Nov 10, 2021
November is American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Heritage Month, and in celebration, please meet member Mary Watai-Navas, a Patient Access Representative at Capital Region Medical Center in Largo, Maryland.
Nov 9, 2021
Getzville, NY – More than 200 Nursing home workers at Weinberg Campus in Getzville are working critically short-staffed and without a union contract. Their 1-year contract extension expired October 31, 2021. Nursing Home Workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.
Nov 8, 2021
Rochester, NY – More than 1,800 union service workers represented by 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East, at Strong Memorial
Hospital and SEIU Local 200 United at University of Rochester Campus in a near unanimous vote on Friday ratified a historic 2-year agreement that includes significant improvements to staffing, wages, and benefits. Wage increases will bring workers above the $15 minimum wage before it is implemented in New York State.
Nov 1, 2021
Since the vaccines have been available, 1199SEIU has poured resources into urging our members to get vaccinated, including, most recently, a televised message from our President.
Oct 29, 2021
It was a long and winding road to get there, but 1199 members negotiating with the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes moved management to a strong settlement agreement on September 23, 2021—an agreement that secures the Union’s Gold Standard Contract
Oct 29, 2021
From the moment COVID-19 vaccines became available last December, 1199SEIU has been urging its members to get the injection to protect themselves and their families against the deadly pathogen. The Union immediately organized virtual conversations with thousands
of members, with medical doctors on hand to answer their scientific questions. Many 1199ers took the opportunity to get vaccinated as soon as they could.
Oct 29, 2021
Bargaining the contracts that determine the wages and conditions of tens of thousands of 1199 nursing home members in the New York
City metropolitan area has begun.
Oct 29, 2021
1199SEIU members at two New Jersey nursing homes held pickets on July 29 to protest the sale of their facilities and cuts to their health insurance and other benefits. This April, 1199SEIU learned that Atlas Healthcare was planning to assume ownership of Cranford and River’s Edge nursing homes and intended to immediately and dramatically cut back workers’ healthcare and other benefits and refused to commit to retaining all employees.
Oct 27, 2021
More than 70 healthcare workers represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Cayuga Ridge Nursing Home in Ithaca, NY have been working short-staffed and without a union contract since May 1, 2021. Last month, workers held a rally to protest the lack of a fair contract and management’s concessionary proposals – increased health insurance costs, lack of a secure retirement, below market wage increases.
