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: 22,229
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.
The budget cuts to bedside care in Florida’s nursing homes, passed last year, have impacted thousands of nursing homes residents and nursing home workers. Staffing levels were reduced from a minimum weekly average of 2.9 hours of care per resident per day to 2.5 hours, which shortens the amount of time caregivers spend with residents by 18 minutes per day.
On November 29, 2011, a majority of the healthcare workers at Good Samaritan Medical Center became the 18th hospital in Florida to cast ballots in favor of forming a union with 1199SEIU.
1199SEIU healthcare workers at 19 HCA-affiliated hospitals in Florida made history by voting overwhelmingly on December 6 to approve collective bargaining agreements that will impact 10,000workers.
This week, healthcare workers at Good Samaritan Medical Center became the fifth Tenet Healthcare-owned hospital in seven months to cast a ballot in favor of joining our union, 1199SEIU Florida.
