Jeanne Vilna,who works at Avante at Boca Raton, fought and won a grievance to win the higher wages she is entitled to due to her new position as a Restorative CNA. Read More
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — The unions that represent more than 7,000 workers at Kaleida hospitals say they're still trying to reach a deal with the health system. Read More
Kaleida Health employees, whose union contracts expired last week, will picket July 10 if they can't come to agreement, they said at a rally Friday. Negotiations will resume July 1. Read More
BUFFALO, NY (WKBW) — Union workers at Kaleida health are preparing to go to battle to reach a new deal. Read More
Thanks to members of 1199SEIU, Maryland issued updated staffing regulations for Long Term Care Facilities effective June 17, 2019. Read More
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Washington (CNN)The Supreme Court has blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 census for the time being in a major setback for the Trump administration. Read More
Congratulations to our member Margalie Williams who authored an editorial in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper on the Democratic debates that recently took place in Miami. Margalie urged candidates to focus on policies that will help working families – such as access to quality, affordable healthcare and to good, union jobs. As a cancer survivor, recovering stroke patient and a long-time healthcare worker with 1199SEIU, Margalie has a special perspective and expertise on these topics. She closed her article with a call for Floridians to become engaged and elect leaders who will best serve the needs of working people in the state and across the nation. The text of the article is below, or you can read the original in the Sun-Sentinel here. Read More
MIDDLETOWN — More than 40 employees of the state’s mental health and maximum-security psychiatric facilities gathered in the hot sun Wednesday afternoon to demand better working conditions and adequate staffing, which has, in some cases, endangered the safety of patients and workers alike. Read More
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Kaleida Health and its three unions could not come to an agreement on a new contract covering thousands of employees, the contract expired at 11:59 p.m. June 21st. Read More