As a result of your tireless advocacy and steadfast commitment to our mission, we achieved significant victories in our movement for quality jobs, quality care and true social, racial and economic justice for all. Here are a few highlights from 2016: Read More
"We thank President Obama for the pardons and clemencies he issued this week and throughout his years in office. The steps taken by the Administration to consistently grant these pardons is a much needed relief to our communities and their families. Read More
1199SEIU has long been a leader in campaigns for pro-worker policies and politicians. As such, the overwhelming majority of its political endorsements have gone to members of the Democratic Party. Read More
This year was one of historic victories and, for many of us, heartbreaking 1199ers helped scores of working-family friendly candidates win elections. The working people’s movement for a living wage made historic gains with the Fight For $15. 1199SEIU organized more than 2,000 workers and continued to live up to the Union’s commitment to a fairer, more just and livable society for all. Read More
Members at New York’s Legal Aid Society are getting ready to head to the negotiating table. At press time, talks for the 1199 bargaining unit’s next agreement with the social justice legal advocacy organization were set to start in late November. Legal Aid’s negotiating committee recently wrapped up the critical step of finalizing the bargaining unit’s contract demands. Read More
Updates from the Massachusetts region of 1199SEIU for the week of December 12, 2016 Read More
A month has now passed since the results of the presidential elections set in. And there are still six weeks to go before President Obama leaves office and Donald Trump is inaugurated. It’s a good time to take stock. Read More
The winter holidays are supposed to be full of good will and hope for a better tomorrow. Unfortunately, it is challenging for the residents at Putnam Ridge and us, the workers who provide care and comfort to those residents, to be overjoyed this holiday season. We are regularly working short-staffed, which could be undermining the quality and continuity of care our residents deserve. But the nursing home’s management appears to not be paying attention to this critical situation. Read More
More than one hundred members of 1199SEIU from New York, Massachusetts and the Maryland/DC Region were in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 5 and 6 to lobby lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the need keep in place the vital patient protections of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – even if the law is repealed by the Trump administration. The effort was spearheaded by the Healthcare Education Project, a community-based partnership of 1199SEIU and the Greater New York Hospital Association. Read More
More than one hundred members of 1199SEIU from New York, Massachusetts and the Maryland/DC Region were in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 5 and 6 to lobby lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the need keep in place the vital patient protections of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) –even if the law is repealed during the Trump administration. The effort was spearheaded by the Healthcare Education Project, a community-based partnership of 1199SEIU and the Greater New York Hospital Association. Read More
Great News for Rite Aid Workers! Rite Aid’s Attempts to undercut the strength of our union have not succeeded. A judge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled that Rite Aid engaged in unfair labor practices when they tried to remove future pharmacists from the bargaining unit. Read More
I would like to respond to Bill Newman’s piece, “As a bulwark, we need the flag” published in the Dec. 3-4 Weekend Gazette. I am an Amherst resident, and I know Bill and respect him and his work. Nine times out of ten, he and I will surely agree. (Originally Published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette) Read More
Washington DC - On Tuesday, December 6th at 12:00 pm EST, nurses, doctors and healthcare workers from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) will host a telebriefing underscoring what’s at stake for Americans who depend on the benefits and protections of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Despite the disastrous consequences for working people, seniors and children, Republican leaders may rush to hold a repeal vote as soon as January. Read More
“How can the Center’s management say they care about the community, when Whitney Young’s workers---who provide the actual care and services and live in the community---can’t afford the health benefits offered, and still the Center won’t budge in negotiations? ... It certainly isn’t what Whitney Young had in mind.”
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The victory at Standing Rock demonstrates once again that standing in solidarity is one of the most effective strategies for “taking the future back”. It is only by unifying together that we can force the urgent transition to sustainable energy sources and away from dangerous dirty fuel. Read More
New York City Mayor, Bill de Blasio, spoke at the podium at Columbus Circle in a demonstration of solidarity with the hundreds of 1199 members and community allies who had assembled to march on Rite Aid.
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Today the 194 workers employed at the Institute for Family Health (a large Federally Qualified Health Center) in the mid-Hudson voted overwhelmingly to become members of our union. The vote was almost unanimous at 135 votes to 14, to join 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Read More
Native Americans and allies are protesting the construction of the 1,100 mile “Dakota Access Pipeline” that would transport millions of gallons of dirty oil per day. President Obama temporarily halted construction, but now the governor of North Dakota has ordered the protest camps to be evacuated, and protesters have been attacked with dogs, water hoses, tear gas grenades and rubber bullets. Read More
We stand in solidarity with the people of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and all who would be affected by the proposed 1,100-mile-long Dakota Access Pipeline. We thank President Obama for halting construction of the pipeline, and call on him to stop it permanently. And we call on North Dakota Governor Dalrymple to reverse his evacuation order and end the attacks on protestors.
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