Every employee expects a grace period when they first start a new job. No one expects that a new employee should be operating with
the same speed and precision as someone who has worked in an institution for 30 years. Read More
It is said that: “The race is not given to the swift or to the strong, but to the one who endures to the end.” This has rarely been more apt than when 33,000 members from 249 nursing homes in the greater New York metropolitan area reached a contract agreement with their employers on the brink of the first large scale 1199SEIU strike in more than three decades. Read More
On October 26 and 27, 1199 members at Nuvance / Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, and Nuvance/Putnam Hospital in Carmel, NY, voted overwhelmingly to ratify their one-year contracts after a long, hard fight with the new owners, Nuvance Health. Read More
The holiday season is upon us. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, Eid Al-Fitr, or none of the above, this time of the year is a season of giving, of peace and love. Read More
The willingness to stand up for ourselves and our co-workers up to and including withholding our labor when necessary–no matter how long our odds of winning seem to be–is the hallmark of 1199SEIU membership and has been from the very beginning. Read More
Getzville, NY – More than 200 nursing home workers at Weinberg Campus in Getzville are celebrating a big victory this holiday season instead of picketing. Workers were able to reach a two-year agreement with Weinberg Campus late last Monday, December 13 narrowly avoiding an informational picket that was scheduled for Wednesday, December 15. Instead of picketing, workers held a ratification vote to review details of the agreement and to cast their ballots to overwhelmingly ratify the two-year deal that includes significant wage increases with a new wage scale for experience, improved pension contributions, higher starting rates, additional paid Juneteenth holiday, and more. Caregivers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Read More
Consulate Health Care workers have many reasons to cheer after ratifying a new contract. Thanks to a strong and unified bargaining team, Consulate workers will receive annual pay raises, higher minimum starting rates, hazard pay, an eight-hour workday and successorship language to protect them if their facility is sold. Read More
Now It’s the Senate’s Turn to Pass Build Back Better!
Last month we traveled to DC to call on the House to pass Build Back Better. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Read More
Last month we traveled to DC to call on the House to pass Build Back Better. Now it’s the Senate’s turn. Read More
Kenmore, NY – More than 80 healthcare workers at Schofield Residence in Kenmore are celebrating a big contract victory this holiday season! Caregivers secured a 2-year union contract with their employer that includes increased wages, increased start rates for newly hired caregivers, wage scales based on seniority, and increased pension contributions. Workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Read More
Getzville, NY – Dozens of nursing home workers at Weinberg Campus in Getzville held a “march on the boss” last week to notify their employer that they will picket the facility on Wednesday, December 15 to demand resolution to short staffing issues that have plagued the facility since 2017. Caregivers are working critically short-staffed and without a union contract while the sale of their nursing home to Elderwood remains pending since 2017[1]. Their 1-year contract extension expired October 31, 2021. The 200 Nursing Home Workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Read More
Build Back Better has passed in the House! Read More
Ithaca, NY - More than 70 healthcare workers represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East at Cayuga Ridge Nursing Home in Ithaca, NY voted to authorize a strike. Healthcare workers have been working without a contract since May 1 all while short staffed. Over the last few months, workers have held rally and informational picket. Read More
Every day of the last two years, nursing home heroes have put their personal fears about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic aside and gone to work to care for residents stricken by the deadly virus. Many of these dedicated workers lacked basic personal protective equipment (PPE) like masks, gloves and gowns. Many got sick. Some died. Read More
More than 100 nursing home workers hit hard during COVID-19 and short staffing are fighting for fair wages and a union contract at two WNY and Rochester area facilities owned or operated by The Grand Healthcare System, CEO Jeremy B. Strauss.1 Nursing home workers at Buffalo Community Healthcare Center and Rochester Community Nursing & Rehabilitation are among the lowest paid caregivers in the Buffalo and Rochester area earning well below the average wage of workers at other area nursing homes. Healthcare workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Read More
Workers at Complete Care at Marcella nursing home will strike for 24 hours to protest unfair labor practices and massive cuts to the quality of their jobs which have left workers without access to affordable health insurance and other critical benefits. Read More
Exclusive discounts and cultural events for 1199 members. Read More
Corporate owners are refusing sufficient wages and health benefits to nursing home workers who are STILL risking their health and safety while caring for the frail and elderly during the worse pandemic in recent history; most have not received a raise since 2018. Read More
