Toni Baldie comes from a family of smart healthcare professionals. The RN in the intensive care unit of HCA-affiliated hospital Northwest Medical Center in Margate has a sister who is a doctor in Jamaica and her mom works in a hospital in New York. Her Auntie Precious is a nurse in South Carolina and several other relatives serve in the healthcare field in the U.S. and her native Jamaica. Read More
Albany, NY The uncertainty and the drama continue. Just yesterday, October 21, the health caregivers at Good Samaritan Nursing Home and Kenwood Manor were given a 30-day reprieve from the immediate termination of their health benefits, because their employer, the Lutheran Care Network, made a partial payment to their Health Benefit Fund. However the future is more intimidating than ever, as workers, residents and families have not been given any information about the future of the two facilities.
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In 2020, 18 contracts covering over 3,600 1199SEIU Nursing Home workers at 29 facilities in the WNY area are set to expire, most on April 30, 2020. We’re all in this together! The upcoming negotiations provide us with an opportunity to improve wages, benefits and working conditions in our area. This survey will be used to establish goals for our 2020 bargaining campaign. Your opinions are very important, so please take a few minutes to complete this survey. Read More
In 1979, 20 years after the Union’s historic hospital organizing campaign, the Union’s Bread and Roses program, piloted by its
public relations genius Moe Foner, took center stage in New York’s mainstream media. Read More
After months of bargaining, Personal Care Attendants in Massachusetts settled a new contract this June. The agreement was ratified in a series of statewide votes conducted in July and celebrated by Gov. Charlie Baker at an Aug. 6 event at the Massachusetts Statehouse in Boston. Read More
1199ers throughout the Union are working hard to re-invigorate member engagement with AFRAM, the National African American caucus within SEIU, especially as the country gears up for the 2020 election. Read More
Nora Duncan, a licensed practical nurse for more than 40 years and now a monitor tech at HCA-affiliated Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation, FL truly is an “Incredible of Healthcare.” Read More
The Union’s summer program for teens helps build professionalism, independence and a vision for the future. Read More
1199’s youngest environmentalists led our contingent at the historic climate march in New York City on September 20, where they rallied alongside a quarter of a million other activists who took to the city streets as part of an international mobilization calling on governments to protect the earth and address climate change. Read More
In September, 1199ers kicked off unionwide discussions of the 2020 presidential election with a member forum at the Union’s Manhattan headquarters and visits and video messages from presidential candidates and their surrogates. Read More
The 1199SEIU/Employer Child Care Corporation will hold its annual Camp Fair on Saturday, Nov. 9 at 1199’s Cherkasky/Davis Conference Center, located at 330 West 42nd St. in Manhattan. Read More
Title I of the LMRDA contains the Bill of Rights for members of labor organizations. The Bill of Rights guarantees union members equal rights to nominate candidates for union office, to vote in union elections or referendums, and to attend union meetings and participate in the deliberations and voting upon the business of such meetings. Read More
This fall, the 1199SEIU National Benefit Fund (NBF) is offering all 1199SEIU members a free, online financial information series. Read More
The first step in making change is making your voice heard. 1199ers who work in hospitals and nursing homes in New York City traveled to Albany on July 25 to explain to the NYS Department of Health how the vital care they provide to seniors is being put at risk by inadequate staffing levels. Read More
Last month, right after Labor Day, CNN conducted an unusual— actually, unique—seven-hour-long forum for the leading Democratic presidential candidates to present their ideas about the climate emergency. It was extraordinary that a major cable network would think the issue is so important that viewers would tune in so many hours. Read More
At our Presidential Issues Forum held in New York City in September, Patrick Gaspard, Executive Director of the Open Societies Foundation and former 1199 Political Director, charged us with taking bold action. Read More
Already short-staffed, with quality care at risk, healthcare workers have been informed their health benefits will be terminated this month. Read More
Mineola, LI, NY- After a long, contentious struggle, workers at NYU-Winthrop Hospital on Long Island voted on Wednesday, September 25, to join 1199SEIU UHWE, the largest healthcare local in the United States. The final vote was 817 for, 142 against becoming members of the union. The vote was the culmination of a long, pitched battle during which management attempted on several occasions to bully workers into voting “no”. Yet in the face of such tactics, an overwhelming majority of workers saw the importance of joining with 1199 to secure no-cost healthcare, a strong secure pension, as well as childcare and education benefits. Read More
Health care is a fundamental right for all. All Americans have a right to equitable, affordable, accessible, culturally-competent, and comprehensive healthcare services in their own communities. Yet more than 30 million individuals lack health coverage altogether, even as millions of others are underinsured and the rapidly escalating costs of health care become increasingly unsustainable. Read More
