This region is part of Health Systems 5A. It includes the northern suburbs of New York City on both sides of the Hudson River—Westchester and Rockland counties—as well as the rural and semi-rural Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan and Greene Counties up the Hudson to the capital city of Albany, and as far north as the southern Adirondacks and as far west as Gloversville in the eastern Mohawk Valley.
Included are the 11,500 workers at 22 hospitals, 17 nursing homes and a handful of clinics and community-based organizations.
Number of Members: 11,500
Number of Delegates: 409
Number of Facilities: 73
Delegates
Everyday, 1199SEIU members are continuing to build on our historic growth in New York by uniting and organizing healthcare and home care workers across the state.
Hudson Valley 1199SEIU Delegates held an exciting Assembly in White Plains, NY on February 15, hosting l guest speaker Paul Gallay, the President of Hudson Riverkeeper. Riverkeeper is a member-supported watchdog organization dedicated to defending the Hudson River and its tributaries and protecting the drinking water of nine million people in New York City and the Hudson Valley.
Some 130 caregivers at Odd Fellow Nursing Home and other community supporters, braved the winter chill on January 25 and went to the picket line to get their message to the public. They made it known that they have done their fair share, and we are asking management to do the same. Union members at Odd Fellow are looking to protect their jobs maintain quality care for their patients.
The tents and sleeping bags belonging to Occupy Poughkeepsie in Hulme Park were evicted two weeks ago, but the Occupy movement is gaining momentum in New York’s Hudson Valley. “You cannot evict a movement whose time has come,” 1199SEIU Delegate Joy Lucky, an LPN at River Valley Care Center, told a crowd of over 125 people who came to support Occupy Poughkeepsie and celebrate its two-month anniversary.
While 1199SEIU members in the New York metropolitan area took to the streets on November 17 for the National Day of Action, healthcare workers further north enthusiastically rallied in solidarity. The National Day of Action for good jobs and a fair, democratic economy is the latest in a series of joint actions by the Occupy movement and labor and community organizations.
