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.
If you’ve been following the Republican presidential race, you might think that the only tax breaks in America are for guys named Mitt who get to park their cash in Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands.
On January 16th, Martin Luther King Day, hundreds of Maryland 1199ers rallied with union members and progressives from across the state at the capitol in Annapolis and called on elected leaders to promote legislation that lives up to the vision of Dr. King.
Hundreds of our union brothers and sisters from across Maryland will rally at the state capitol on January 16. We'll call on elected leaders to stand with working families and promote a society that lives up to the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On January 5, members of 1199SEIU in Baltimore hosted the Maryland and DC AFL-CIO, as the 300,000-member labor federation announced support for a marriage equality bill proposed by Governor Martin O’Malley for this year’s Maryland legislative session.
On Saturday, January 28, 1199SEIU members and Carney Hospital management came together to promote new services being offered at Carney Hospital, located in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston.
A delegation of personal care attendants from across Massachusetts kicked off a campaign for a new contract at the Massachusetts State House recently with an energetic rally and series of visits to lawmakers whose support they are seeking.
Recently, 1199SEIU was able to bring back 29 new union jobs at Boston Medical Center. BMC cancelled a contract that outsourced phone center work to Jacksonville, Florida. Union members raised concerns about the quality of work being performed by out of state phone operators and patients complained about talking to somebody in Florida who knew nothing about Boston Medical Center. After several mishaps with the company, 29 new BMC positions were funded to handle this work that was contracted out and patients calling to make Primary Care appointments will now speak with knowledgeable 1199 members.
Michael Lawson, from the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, talks about changing trends in the ownership structure of many nursing homes in New Jersey and elsewhere.
Approximately 1,300 1199 SEIU caregivers from thirteen nursing homes owned by Genesis HealthCare in New Jersey have accepted a settlement reached between management and the Union.
1199SEIU, New Jersey’s largest long-term-care union, has called upon the state legislature in Trenton to pass the marriage equality legislation proposed by lawmakers earlier this month.
Members of the largest long-term care union in New Jersey, 1199SEIU caregivers gathered on December 9 at the headquarters of Seniors Management-North, Inc. in Cherry Hill to ask for a fair contract for workers at four nursing homes. The institutions are located in Barnegat, Galloway, Manchester Township and Wanaque.
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.
1199SEIU Member Political Organizers in New York’s Hudson Valley and Capital Region took to the streets in mid-October to campaign for the local candidates who would best represent the interests of working families and their communities. Their hard work proved successful when the ballots were counted on Election Day, November 8. Most 1199SEIU-backed candidates were elected.
Nursing home caregivers, students and street theater performers conducted a satirical manhunt outside of NYU Law School for school Trustee and “corporate outlaw” Daniel Straus on January 30. “Sheriff 99%” joined NYU students and caregivers in calling on Daniel Straus to stop robbing workers of their rights. One Percent “outlaw” Straus runs Care One and HealthBridge nursing home companies, which have violated federal labor law and locked caregivers out of their jobs.
Late last year, our billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, summoned the press to City Hall to announce that life expectancy in New York is now more than two years above the national average.
Aida Garcia, who went from an outpatient registrar at NYC’s Roosevelt Hospital to help build 1199’s 70,000 member-strong Homecare Division as its Executive Vice President, was cheered and honored by an outpouring of love from co-workers, colleagues, family and friends at a retirement party at the union’s midtown Manhattan conference center on January 26.
1199SEIU opened the doors to their new Central New York location in downtown Syracuse on January 25, and welcomed hundreds of Delegates, community allies, local elected officials, and employers to view the new space and enjoy musical entertainment, drinks, and appetizers from various downtown eateries.
In Buffalo, NY, hundreds of faith, labor, and community members rallied on December 10 in Niagara Square before marching to three locations that they say symbolize the ongoing assault that workers are under in New York State and nationwide.
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.
If you’ve been following the Republican presidential race, you might think that the only tax breaks in America are for guys named Mitt who get to park their cash in Swiss banks and the Cayman Islands.
On January 16th, Martin Luther King Day, hundreds of Maryland 1199ers rallied with union members and progressives from across the state at the capitol in Annapolis and called on elected leaders to promote legislation that lives up to the vision of Dr. King.
undreds of our union brothers and sisters from across Maryland will rally at the state capitol on January 16. We'll call on elected leaders to stand with working families and promote a society that lives up to the vision of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
On January 5, 
A delegation of personal care attendants from across Massachusetts kicked off a campaign for a new contract at the Massachusetts State House recently with an energetic rally and series of visits to lawmakers whose support they are seeking.
Approximately 1,300 1199 SEIU caregivers from thirteen nursing homes owned by Genesis HealthCare in New Jersey have accepted a settlement reached between management and the Union. 
1199SEIU, New Jersey’s largest long-term-care union, has called upon the state legislature in Trenton to pass the marriage equality legislation proposed by lawmakers earlier this month.
Members of the largest long-term care union in New Jersey, 1199SEIU caregivers gathered on December 9 at the headquarters of Seniors Management-North, Inc. in Cherry Hill to ask for a fair contract for workers at four nursing homes. The institutions are located in Barnegat, Galloway, Manchester Township and Wanaque.
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.
1199SEIU Member Political Organizers in New York’s Hudson Valley and Capital Region took to the streets in mid-October to campaign for the local candidates who would best represent the interests of working families and their communities. Their hard work proved successful when the ballots were counted on Election Day, November 8. Most 1199SEIU-backed candidates were elected.
Nursing home caregivers, students and street theater performers conducted a satirical manhunt outside of NYU Law School for school Trustee and “corporate outlaw” Daniel Straus on January 30. “Sheriff 99%” joined NYU students and caregivers in calling on Daniel Straus to stop robbing workers of their rights. One Percent “outlaw” Straus runs Care One and HealthBridge nursing home companies, which have violated federal labor law and locked caregivers out of their jobs.
Late last year, our billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, summoned the press to City Hall to announce that life expectancy in New York is now more than two years above the national average.
Aida Garcia, who went from an outpatient registrar at NYC’s Roosevelt Hospital to help build 1199’s 70,000 member-strong Homecare Division as its Executive Vice President, was cheered and honored by an outpouring of love from co-workers, colleagues, family and friends at a retirement party at the union’s midtown Manhattan conference center on January 26.
1199SEIU opened the doors to their new Central New York location in downtown Syracuse on January 25, and welcomed hundreds of Delegates, community allies, local elected officials, and employers to view the new space and enjoy musical entertainment, drinks, and appetizers from various downtown eateries.
In Buffalo, NY, hundreds of faith, labor, and community members rallied on December 10 in Niagara Square before marching to three locations that they say symbolize the ongoing assault that workers are under in New York State and nationwide.
11999SEIU members and families gathered for their first annual Holiday Parties on December 9th and 10th.
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