More than 60 1199SEIU bargaining committee members from 19 hospitals across Florida began negotiations with HCA, the nation’s largest for-profit hospital corporation, on February 26.

1199 members joined others from SEIU 32BJ, SEIU Local 500, and SEIU Local 400 in Annapolis for the SEIU Maryland and DC State Council Legislative Action Day on February 27. Caregivers from across the state met with their State Delegates and Senators to discuss issues of concern to workers, patients, and families.

1199SEIU, representing 16,000 healthcare families in New Jersey, announced its endorsement of Councilman Ras Baraka for Mayor of Newark on March 4. Over one thousand 1199SEIU nursing home workers live in Newark and are responsible for providing care to many of the city's most frail and vulnerable residents.

More than a hundred 1199SEIU nursing-home workers from across New York State came to the state’s capital prepared for the single-digit temperature by wearing layered clothing, boots, warm hats and gloves. They also came prepared to protect quality care at nursing homes by telling their stories to state legislators.

Millicent Faulkner, a veteran CNA at Sarah Neuman nursing home in Mamaroneck, loves her job and is proud of the care that she provides. “If my mom and dad were sick and needed to live in a home, I’d want them to be cared for at Sarah Neuman,” she says.