In just 10 years, we've grown from a handful of facilities to a statewide movement of healthcare workers fighting for quality care for our patients and residents, fair working conditions and improved pay and benefits.
We represent more than 22,229 nurses, professional employees, certified nurses aides, service and technical employees, and other hospital and nursing home employees who work in some of the largest for-profit and academic healthcare facilities in the state.
Number of Members: 24,194
Number of Delegates: 482
Number of Facilities: 87
Florida Delegates
Everyday, 1199SEIU members are continuing to build on our historic growth in Florida by uniting and organizing healthcare and home care workers across the state.
1199SEIU Florida caregivers at a town hall on May 13 joined healthcare expansion champions State Representative Kionne McGhee, Senator Dwight Bullard, Rep. Perry Thurston and Rep. Barbara Watson to tallk about the morally and fiscally irresponsible decision by Florida House leaders to deny healthcare expansion to 1.2 million hardworking Floridians.
For the last month, a group of roughly fifteen healthcare workers have been gathering every Monday at University of Miami Hospital to learn new computer skills thanks to the Education and Training Fund benefit they secured in their union contract.
