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.
Mar 3, 2022
In 2019, 1199 filed a class action grievance against forty-two home care agencies on behalf of current and former bargaining unit members…
Mar 3, 2022
NEW YORK – An arbitrator has issued an historic $30 million arbitration award covering more than 100,000 current and former 1199SEIU United…
Mar 2, 2022
“I’ve always been interested in science and helping people,” says Yvette Vasquez, “so naturally where the two combined is the medical…
Mar 2, 2022
When Kora Yaineneh, an 1199SEIU RN first arrived in the U.S. from her native Gambia in 1990, she spent a few weeks at 333 East 181st Street,…
Mar 2, 2022
When 1199 learned of the terrible blaze that claimed the lives of 17 people when it ripped through a Bronx apartment building, the Union…
Mar 2, 2022
“President Biden should be commended for elevating the need for improved nursing home care and better protections for seniors and their…
Mar 1, 2022
Home care workers have always been essential— they provide the necessary care that allows seniors and
people with disabilities to live…
Mar 1, 2022
Members at ten New Jersey nursing homes just won a contract settlement with Complete Care Management, a significant victory in what
had…
Mar 1, 2022
The professional unit at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Yonkers, NY, voted to join 1199SEIU in a near unanimous poll on January 18, bringing…
Mar 1, 2022
On January 17, hundreds of 1199SEIU members at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, held their 41st annual event to honor Dr. Martin…
Mar 1, 2022
Claudette Colvin, a now retired 1199SEIU member, who courageously defied the segregated bus laws in Alabama during the Jim Crow era, has…
Mar 1, 2022
As proud 1199SEIU members, we all know coming together to bargain collectively gives us the best chance of negotiating strong contracts for…
Feb 28, 2022
St. Louis, MO – This month, unionized healthcare workers at one of the largest Catholic Health systems in the United States voted…
Feb 26, 2022
For months now, President Biden has been facing negative headlines, calling him out for failing to enact his ground-breaking legislative…
Feb 26, 2022
“The caregivers of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East in Florida are very pleased and proud for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to…
Feb 23, 2022
BUFFALO, NY — Faith leaders, home care workers, Senator Tim Kennedy and home care workers and advocates will gather on Wednesday to urge…
1199SEIU & Assemblymember Sarah Clark Join Home Care Advocates to Call for End of Home Care Shortage
Feb 22, 2022
ROCHESTER, NY — Assemblymember Sarah Clark will tomorrow join home care advocates and Rochester resident Flip Polizzi Rivera to call for an…
Feb 17, 2022
Healthcare workers (members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East,) elected officials and concerned citizens say that Westchester…
Feb 11, 2022
Lewiston, NY – Dozens of workers marched and chanted “Fair Contract Now” in front of Ascension Living at Our Lady of Peace in Lewiston…