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.
Nov 1, 2021
Since the vaccines have been available, 1199SEIU has poured resources into urging our members to get vaccinated, including, most recently, a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Oct 25, 2021
The members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest union of healthcare workers in the nation, strongly demand humane and…
Oct 25, 2021
New York, NY. Oct. 25, 2021 -- The members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest union of healthcare workers in the…
Oct 22, 2021
On Friday, October 22, the union contracts covering 1,800 service workers at Strong Memorial Hospital and University of Rochester Campus…
Oct 21, 2021
These are hard times for working people. Good paying jobs with benefits are scarce. Employers continue to dig in their heels against union…
Oct 21, 2021
The phrase Information Superhighway was first coined in the late 1970’s by U.S. Vice President Al Gore when the internet was in its infancy…
Oct 20, 2021
Nuvance’s Hudson Valley facilities are extraordinarily short-staffed. There are long waits to get care in the emergency departments, and…
Sep 28, 2021
The pandemic has changed the way we work, meet and live. Since we can’t meet in person due to the health crisis, let’s connect virtually…
Sep 28, 2021
Purpose: Enrich the connections between RNs by providing a program that is beneficial to mentors and mentees.
Sep 24, 2021
New York, NY – The League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes of New York (the League) and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East (1199SEIU)…
Sep 21, 2021
1979 was the eleventh straight year that New York City’s labor movement had failed to sponsor a Labor Day parade. That year,1199 decided to…
Sep 21, 2021
Long term care workers across Florida who have been on the front lines of the pandemic are uniting through their union, 1199SEIU United…
Sep 21, 2021
A group of MDDC region workers this year marked Juneteenth with a dramatic action standing up for workers’ rights—and in keeping with the…
Sep 21, 2021
RN Deb Montgomery was hired full-time by HCA Palms West Hospital in December 2019 and immediately joined 1199SEIU for the better pay and…
Sep 21, 2021
Seventy- five percent of the United States adult population has now received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot. The country met this…