On March 7, more than 200 Delegates of 1199SEIU traveled from all parts of Florida to the state capital in Tallahassee to tell their first-hand accounts of how cuts to nursing homes and hospitals are impacting their patients and their jobs.
Close to fifty 1199SEIU Florida members and their families were among thousands who marched from Crooms Academy, Seminole County’s first all-black high school, to the Sanford Police Department on March 31, calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, who was unarmed on his way home from a convenience store.
After standing together through months of challenging contract negotiations, hospital workers at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach and North Shore Medical Center in Miami recently crossed the finish line hand in hand by approving new union contracts with overwhelming support. The new contracts, which were approved within days of each other and were negotiated by approximately 50 workers from the two Tenet-owned hospitals, invest in caregivers and quality jobs for the South Florida community.
Close to 50 members from 1199SEIU Florida traveled to Sanford to unite with thousands on Thursday, March 22 at a rally calling for justice for Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen who was gunned down in Sanford earlier this month by a neighbor who has not been arrested.
The management of Civista Medical Center in Southern Maryland recently learned an important lesson: No matter where an 1199SEIU caregiver works, no matter how hard her fight, her brothers and sisters in the Union will have her back.
On March 9, members of 1199SEIU rallied at the DC City Council to fight back against a plan to slash services at United Medical Center (UMC), the only full-service acute care hospital east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC.
1199 members from DC and Maryland rallied on March 27h with hundreds of their SEIU brothers and sisters at the U.S.Supreme Court to stand up for the Affordable Care Act.
The long struggle for civil rights in America took another step forward early this month when Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a marriage equality bill into law.
On April 17, also known as Tax Day, 1199SEIU members flocked to Dewey Square in Boston to participate in a rally demanding that corporations pay their fair share. 1199ers were joined by members of other unions and community organizations at the rally.
Recently, 1199SEIU members attended a rally at the Massachusetts State House in support of legislation that would mandate all employers in Massachusetts to provide earned sick time to their employees.
On Thursday, March 22, 1199SEIU members across Massachusetts joined with members of several other unions to rally outside of Verizon stores across the Bay State.
A group of New Jersey lawmakers joined home health aides in Roselle Park Wednesday to protest a move by their employer to cut workers’ hourly wages by as much as 30 cents.
Caregivers from nursing homes owned by NuVision Management, Inc. have accepted a settlement reached between management and the union representatives. The settlement affects caregivers at Clark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Burnt Tavern Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.
1199SEIU caregivers from New Vista Nursing and Rehab Center in Newark rallied in front of their facility to demand a fair contract for workers. Workers from New Vista and other nursing homes joined local community members and their supporters to demand a fair contract from management.
A team of 1199SEIU members were among hundreds of people who participated in the first ever Spring Capital Region Heart Walk and Health Fair. The event was held at The Crossings in Colonie, New York, a suburb of Albany, on Saturday, May12, 2012.
It is appropriate, although coincidence, that the 1199SEIU Retirees Division launched a new Hudson Valley New York Chapter in May, the month we celebrate Older Americans Month, National Nurses Week and Mother’s Day. Retiree’s Division President Lena Hayes said, “May offers the perfect opportunity to show our appreciation for our seniors and retirees, as well as for our nurses, many of whom are, of course, also mothers.”
On May 1, millions of people across the world took to the streets, calling attention to social and economic inequality and corporate greed. For over a century, May 1 has been known as May Day or International Workers Day—a time when working people unite and raise their voices above corporate noise.
The April 26 Delegate Assembly at 1199SEIU Headquarters in Albany, NY, attended by delegates and activists from the Mid-Hudson Valley and Capital Region, was packed. Much of the excitement was generated by special guest Congressional candidate Sean Patrick Maloney, who is running against Tea Party favorite Nan Hayworth, in the new NY-18 District in the Hudson Valley. After interviewing with many 1199 political activists in the region, Sean was enthusiastically endorsed by the 1199SEIU Executive Council.
1199SEIU President George Gresham joined NAACP President Ben Jealous and National Action Network President Rev. Al Sharpton on Tuesday at the headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers in lower Manhattan to announce a Silent March to End Stop and Frisk that will be held on Fathers’ Day, June 17. The march will protest the discriminatory, brutal and humiliating tactic of racial profiling used by the NYPD against hundreds of thousands of innocent people each year.
Hundreds of Metropolitan New York area homecare members began picketing homecare agencies in April to protest the arbitrary termination of contractual benefits by those agencies.
A large contingent of 1199SEIU members was among those who joined the thousands who rallied in Manhattan’s Union Square then marched to Wall St. as part of this year’s May Day celebration and call by the Occupy Wall Street movement to a national day of action.
On Monday, April 23rd, president of 1199SEIU George Gresham, Reverend Al Sharpton, president of the NAACP Benjamin Jealous and New York State NAACP president Hazel Dukes met with labor leaders, elected officials and local grassroots organizations to plan a march protesting the NYPD’s stop and frisk and racial profiling practices. The march will take place on Father’s Day (Sunday, June 17th) at 1 p.m. It will begin at 110th Street and Park Avenue in Harlem and will continue in a silent procession to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s townhouse on the Upper East Side.
On Tuesday, April 17th, 1199SEIU, SEIU Local 200 United, and other community allies hosted a dodge ball game in Syracuse’s Clinton Square between Team 99% and the wealthy 1%. The action was intended to remind taxpayers about who are paying taxes, and who are dodging their fair share.
Nearly 200 community activists and outraged taxpayers gathered outside of the US Post Office on William Street in Buffalo, to call on corporations to pay their fair share in taxes. While billions of dollars are wasted in tax subsidies and corporate giveaways, important public services like our post offices—including the one on William Street--are slated to close because of lack of funds.
This year, the upstate NY division of 1199SEIU has given back to the Rochester community by sponsoring soccer teams, which are open to the children of members and non-members in the area. The teams are part of the Flower City Soccer League, a local non-profit committed to contributing to the personal, physical and academic growth of urban children through soccer.
If you live in Western New York, you can come to the Buffalo 1199SEIU office until Friday, April 13, and e-file your taxes for free! If you have a return due to you, it will be back in about 10 days.
On March 7, more than 200 Delegates of 1199SEIU traveled from all parts of Florida to the state capital in Tallahassee to tell their first-hand accounts of how cuts to nursing homes and hospitals are impacting their patients and their jobs.
Close to fifty 1199SEIU Florida members and their families were among thousands who marched from Crooms Academy, Seminole County’s first all-black high school, to the Sanford Police Department on March 31, calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, who was unarmed on his way home from a convenience store.
After standing together through months of challenging contract negotiations, hospital workers at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach and North Shore Medical Center in Miami recently crossed the finish line hand in hand by approving new union contracts with overwhelming support. The new contracts, which were approved within days of each other and were negotiated by approximately 50 workers from the two Tenet-owned hospitals, invest in caregivers and quality jobs for the South Florida community.
Close to 50 members from 1199SEIU Florida traveled to Sanford to unite with thousands on Thursday, March 22 at a rally calling for justice for Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen who was gunned down in Sanford earlier this month by a neighbor who has not been arrested.
The management of Civista Medical Center in Southern Maryland recently learned an important lesson: No matter where an 1199SEIU caregiver works, no matter how hard her fight, her brothers and sisters in the Union will have her back.
On March 9, members of 1199SEIU rallied at the DC City Council to fight back against a plan to slash services at United Medical Center (UMC), the only full-service acute care hospital east of the Anacostia River in Washington, DC.
1199 members from DC and Maryland rallied on March 27h with hundreds of their SEIU brothers and sisters at the U.S.Supreme Court to stand up for the Affordable Care Act.
The long struggle for civil rights in America took another step forward early this month when Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a marriage equality bill into law.
On April 17, also known as Tax Day, 1199SEIU members flocked to Dewey Square in Boston to participate in a rally demanding that corporations pay their fair share. 1199ers were joined by members of other unions and community organizations at the rally.
At North Adams Regional Hospital, union members agreed to extend their current contract until March 31, 2013.
On Thursday, March 22, 1199SEIU members across Massachusetts joined with members of several other unions to rally outside of Verizon stores across the Bay State.
On May 1, New Jersey's 1199SEIU members made the trip to New York to march in May Day demonstrations organized by the Occupy Wall Street movement.
A group of New Jersey lawmakers joined home health aides in Roselle Park Wednesday to protest a move by their employer to cut workers’ hourly wages by as much as 30 cents.
Caregivers from nursing homes owned by NuVision Management, Inc. have accepted a settlement reached between management and the union representatives. The settlement affects caregivers at Clark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Burnt Tavern Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.
1199SEIU caregivers from New Vista Nursing and Rehab Center in Newark rallied in front of their facility to demand a fair contract for workers. Workers from New Vista and other nursing homes joined local community members and their supporters to demand a fair contract from management. 
A team of 1199SEIU members were among hundreds of people who participated in the first ever Spring Capital Region Heart Walk and Health Fair. The event was held at The Crossings in Colonie, New York, a suburb of Albany, on Saturday, May12, 2012.
It is appropriate, although coincidence, that the 1199SEIU Retirees Division launched a new Hudson Valley New York Chapter in May, the month we celebrate Older Americans Month, National Nurses Week and Mother’s Day. Retiree’s Division President Lena Hayes said, “May offers the perfect opportunity to show our appreciation for our seniors and retirees, as well as for our nurses, many of whom are, of course, also mothers.”
On May 1, millions of people across the world took to the streets, calling attention to social and economic inequality and corporate greed. For over a century, May 1 has been known as May Day or International Workers Day—a time when working people unite and raise their voices above corporate noise.
The April 26 Delegate Assembly at 1199SEIU Headquarters in Albany, NY, attended by delegates and activists from the Mid-Hudson Valley and Capital Region, was packed. Much of the excitement was generated by special guest Congressional candidate Sean Patrick Maloney, who is running against Tea Party favorite Nan Hayworth, in the new NY-18 District in the Hudson Valley. After interviewing with many 1199 political activists in the region, Sean was enthusiastically endorsed by the 1199SEIU Executive Council.
Hundreds of Metropolitan New York area homecare members began picketing homecare agencies in April to protest the arbitrary termination of contractual benefits by those agencies.
On Monday, April 23rd, president of 1199SEIU George Gresham, Reverend Al Sharpton, president of the NAACP Benjamin Jealous and New York State NAACP president Hazel Dukes met with labor leaders, elected officials and local grassroots organizations to plan a march protesting the NYPD’s stop and frisk and racial profiling practices. The march will take place on Father’s Day (Sunday, June 17th) at 1 p.m. It will begin at 110th Street and Park Avenue in Harlem and will continue in a silent procession to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s townhouse on the Upper East Side.
On Tuesday, April 17th, 1199SEIU, SEIU Local 200 United, and other community allies hosted a dodge ball game in Syracuse’s Clinton Square between Team 99% and the wealthy 1%. The action was intended to remind taxpayers about who are paying taxes, and who are dodging their fair share.
Nearly 200 community activists and outraged taxpayers gathered outside of the US Post Office on William Street in Buffalo, to call on corporations to pay their fair share in taxes. While billions of dollars are wasted in tax subsidies and corporate giveaways, important public services like our post offices—including the one on William Street--are slated to close because of lack of funds.
This year, the upstate NY division of 1199SEIU has given back to the Rochester community by sponsoring soccer teams, which are open to the children of members and non-members in the area. The teams are part of the Flower City Soccer League, a local non-profit committed to contributing to the personal, physical and academic growth of urban children through soccer.
If you live in Western New York, you can come to the Buffalo 1199SEIU office until Friday, April 13, and e-file your taxes for free! If you have a return due to you, it will be back in about 10 days.
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