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!

Florida Healthcare Workers Secure Improved Staffing Language and Guaranteed Raises in New Contract with Tenet Hospitals

Feb 7, 2019

2019 Priorities

Feb 6, 2019

Your zipcode should not determine the quality of care. Over time, Medicaid and Medicare funding has failed to keep up with increased costs.…

Florida Healthcare Workers Protect Employee Benefits by Voting Down HCA-Affiliated Hospitals’ Proposal to Cut Dental & Retirement Restoration Plans

Feb 5, 2019

Nurses and other healthcare employees who work at HCA-affiliated hospitals in Central and South Florida have overwhelmingly rejected a…

1199SEIU Statement on $15 Minimum Wage Deal Reached in NJ

Jan 18, 2019

“The healthcare workers of 1199SEIU congratulate Governor Phil Murphy, Senate President Steve Sweeney and Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin…

The Work We Do: Sinai Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center

Jan 2, 2019

Workers at several Baltimore area hospitals including Sinai and Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) recently settled a set of landmark,…

The Work We Do: Sinai Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center

Jan 2, 2019

Workers at several Baltimore area hospitals including Sinai and Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) recently settled a set of landmark,…

The Work We Do: Sinai Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center

Jan 2, 2019

Workers at several Baltimore area hospitals including Sinai and Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) recently settled a set of landmark,…

A Look Back at 2018

Dec 26, 2018

Anxiety punctuated much of the last year, but 1199ers continued to shine, winning in the workplace, standing up to attacks on health care,…

Florida Partnership Yields Results

Oct 29, 2018

Last year, when 1199SEIU and the University of Miami Hospital (UMH) began bargaining wages for the first year of the three-year collective…

The President's Column: “Making America Great Again” Means Turning Back the Clock

Jul 9, 2018

Since collective bargaining rights were written into law eight decades ago there hasn’t been such a hostile political environment for…

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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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