Fight for $15

Healthcare Workers Fight For $15!

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Healthcare workers have dedicated their lives to providing quality care, but too many caregivers are trapped in poverty. Many healthcare workers make less than $15 an hour and are struggling to pay for food, housing, utilities and other basic essentials. This has a negative impact on patient care, because low wages hurt recruitment and retention of qualified caregivers.

The Fight For $15 is not just about low-wage caregivers, it is about the future of all healthcare jobs and our entire industry. By raising up our low-wage sisters and brothers, we can put upward pressure on employers to improve wages for every healthcare worker. Our vision is that ALL healthcare jobs should be good jobs with a living wage, health benefits and a union. This fight is even more urgent as billionaires keep amassing more wealth, undermining our economy and our democracy.

Fill out the form to the right to get involved today – Together, healthcare workers can win the Fight For $15 for ALL working people!

AFTER ALMOST LOSING HOME AND CAR, CNA ELOMIE MINOTT WINS HER JOB BACK AND RETRO PAY

Apr 17, 2019

Certified Nursing Assistant Elomie Minott has a good reason to smile. That’s because she has returned to a job she loves – caring for her…

Job Loss And Tough Fiscal Times Didn't Stop Jorge Tschebortarjew From Fighting And Winning His job Back Plus Back Pay

Apr 17, 2019

Justice has finally come for Jorge Tschebortarjew, a driver who worked at Hillcrest Health Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hollywood…

The Work We Do: Carthage Are Hospital & Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center

Apr 17, 2019

These 1199ers care for New York State’s North Country. Just above the Adirondack Mountains in Northeastern New York State lies the North…

Solidarity Was Key Ingredient In Historic 1959 Victory

Apr 17, 2019

This year marks the 60th anniversary of 1199’s emergence as New York’s major healthcare union. The saga began with a resounding Dec. 30,…

Upstate New York Caregivers Stir the Pot

Apr 16, 2019

Most of us have heard the message that a balanced diet packed full of fresh produce and limited in fried foods and sugar is one of the best…

Our Delegates: Social Worker Joanne Rutland

Apr 16, 2019

Mount Sinai Social Worker Joanne Rutland was thirteen when she started working in health care.

Massachusetts Home Health Workers Build Strength Despite Obstacles

Apr 16, 2019

Maintaining Union Strength 1199SEIU Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) in Massachusetts have a lot of irons in the fire these days. In one of…

Massachusetts Home Health Workers Build Strength Despite Obstacles

Apr 16, 2019

Maintaining Union Strength 1199SEIU Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) in Massachusetts have a lot of irons in the fire these days. In one of…

Massachusetts Home Health Workers Build Strength Despite Obstacles

Apr 16, 2019

Maintaining Union Strength 1199SEIU Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) in Massachusetts have a lot of irons in the fire these days. In one of…

Maryland/DC Members Support Green Jobs

Apr 16, 2019

A host of Maryland labor organizations joined students and environmental, faith, health, labor, and civic organizations in Annapolis Feb. 15…

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“The Florida members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East applaud and appreciate the Biden-Harris Administration’s new national requirements to protect senior patients and their caregivers in nursing homes across the nation. Read More
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East has announced its endorsement of Rep. Andy Kim for US Senate. Read More
The final budget agreement represents a significant improvement from Governor Hochul’sinitial proposal—which contained over $1 billion in Medicaid cuts—and highlights the immense importance of our ongoing Medicaid Equity campaign. Read More
Driven by their commitment to providing quality care for their patients, workers at two Planned Parenthood of Greater New York (“PPGNY”) sites in Long Island joined 1199SEIU, the largest and fastest growing healthcare union in New York. Read More
Learn more about 1199SEIU's 2024 legislative victories for Maryland. Read More
More than 100 long-term care workers from across Florida gathered in Orlando recently to accomplish one goal – prepare for contract negotiations. Read More
Jennifer Parker, a longtime and active 1199SEIU Florida member-leader recently authored an editorial published in The Orlando Sentinel that called out Governor Ron DeSantis and other state politicians for their cynical claims and misguided priorities while failing to serve working families. Read More
Governor’s Budget Cuts Would Deepen NY's Homecare Worker Shortage and Force Disabled Children & Seniors Out of their Homes and into Institutions— just as Insurance Companies Continue To Earn Millions in Profits Read More
The Home Care Savings & Reinvestment Act introduced in Albany this year is designed to stop profit-driven insurance companies from ripping off home care consumers and taxpayers. The 1199 Magazine caught up with some CDPAP members in Albany as they lobbied their elected representatives to support this legislation and protect their wages. Read More
Members show solidarity for Women's History Month Read More
An 1199 retiree explains why her political action with the Union never stops. Read More
The marriage of culture and politics is a powerful force. Read More
As working people, raising our voices together is the best way to be heard. Read More
Members came together at Union headquarters to honor past heroes and build for the future. Read More
Working people need to make sure we have a dog in the race. Read More
Workers at WestMed, a consortium of doctors’ offices and urgent care centers located at seven different sites around Westchester, New York, reached out to 1199 when their conditions started to change following the corporate takeover. Read More
Hundreds of Massachusetts 1199ers took to the streets on March 20 outside Governor Maura Healey’s office to protest her state budget proposal that threatens to cut 6,000 consumers out of the Personal Care Assistant program, which provides home care services across the state. Read More
Members in Maryland joined other progressive organizations at a rally for health justice outside the state capitol building in Annapolis on February 26. Read More
Refusing to let grave injustice get the better of him, Jon-Adrian Velazquez, is now starring in a movie about redemption alongside renowned actor, Colman Domingo. Read More
Union activists celebrated International Women’s Day up and down the East Coast in a variety of events designed to build solidarity. Read More

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