The Upstate/WNY Division of 1199SEIU is the voice of healthcare employees in western, central, and northern New York State. The region includes more than 23,000 workers at 29 hospitals, 70 long-term care facilities and clinics, a home care agency, a physicians practice, and a business clerical group. Members of 1199SEIU's Upstate/WNY division work in 26 counties throughout Upstate New York, from the Adirondacks to Niagara Falls, and include registered nurses, hospital workers, professionals, nursing home workers, and home care.
Dec 18, 2019
2020 is an important election year. The President of the United States, the U.S. House of Representatives, one-third of the U.S.
Senate, and…
Dec 17, 2019
Florida nursing home workers at Avante at Boca Raton ratified a new contract in early November. The three-year agreement includes several…
Dec 17, 2019
On October 22 in Orlando, FL, more than 30 1199ers gathered with members and representatives of the American Association of Retired Persons…
Dec 17, 2019
Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” And retired delegate Charles…
Dec 16, 2019
Washington, D.C.’s Whitman-Walker Health is a community health provider specializing in LGBTQ+ and HIV care. The organization was founded in…
Dec 16, 2019
“Reach out, before a shelter is your only option!” is the advice New York City has promoted to residents in crisis for the past five years.…
Dec 13, 2019
Hundreds of 1199SEIU members picketed Northwell Health’s Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) on Oct. 2 to push the healthcare…
Dec 12, 2019
Join fellow 1199 members on Thursday, February 20, 2020, in Annapolis, at the House Office Building - Room 170, 6 Bladen St., for our annual…
Dec 9, 2019
Members from around downstate New York gathered at a midtown Manhattan hotel on Nov. 1 for a day long discussion of best practices, labor…
Dec 9, 2019
I don’t know about you but I’m tired of the media describing President Trump’s base as the white working class.
Dec 9, 2019
Here we are already at the end of 2019, and 2020, one the most consequential years of any of our lifetimes, is upon us. That was fast!
Nov 22, 2019
Members of 1199SEIU played an important part in political victories in Orlando, Saint Petersburg and South Florida earlier this month,…
Oct 30, 2019
Toni Baldie comes from a family of smart healthcare professionals. The RN in the intensive care unit of HCA-affiliated hospital Northwest…
Oct 22, 2019
Albany, NY The uncertainty and the drama continue. Just yesterday, October 21, the health caregivers at Good Samaritan Nursing Home and…
Oct 17, 2019
In 1979, 20 years after the Union’s historic hospital organizing campaign, the Union’s Bread and Roses program, piloted by its
public…
Oct 17, 2019
After months of bargaining, Personal Care Attendants in Massachusetts settled a new contract this June. The agreement was ratified in a…
Oct 17, 2019
1199ers throughout the Union are working hard to re-invigorate member engagement with AFRAM, the National African American caucus within…
Oct 15, 2019
Nora Duncan, a licensed practical nurse for more than 40 years and now a monitor tech at HCA-affiliated Westside Regional Medical Center in…
Oct 15, 2019
The Union’s summer program for teens helps build professionalism, independence and a vision for the future.