We are 1199SEIU healthcare workers who live and work in 17 counties from the northern suburbs of New York City on both sides of the Hudson River—Westchester and Rockland counties—as well as the rural and semi-rural Putnam, Dutchess, Columbia, Orange, Ulster, Sullivan, and Greene counties, up the Hudson to the capital city of Albany, as far north as the southern Adirondacks, and as far west as Gloversville in the eastern Mohawk Valley.
We are approximately 17,000 members who work at hospitals and nursing homes and clinics, pharmacies, and community-based organizations.
Tonight: 1199SEIU Nursing Home Workers & Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara Will Hold Town Hall Meeting
Oct 16, 2017
Background: The workers at Baptist Nursing Home dedicate their lives to the care and comfort of the nursing home’s ill, injured, frail and…
Oct 5, 2017
Background: More than seven hundred 1199SEIU members are employed at 5 upstate New York nursing homes owned by The Grand Healthcare System;…
Sep 27, 2017
More than 100 are expected at the rally, including neighborhood and community activists, elected officials, clergy, members of several labor…
Aug 11, 2017
Unaffordable health benefits will no longer burden workers at 2 Hudson Valley nursing homes--Wingate at Dutchess and Wingate at Ulster. In…
Jul 5, 2017
A relieved group of 1199SEIU members at Hudson Park Nursing Home in Albany, NY unanimously ratified a collective bargaining agreement in…
May 11, 2017
Today we welcome more than 60 new members from Greater Hudson Valley Health System into the 1199SEIU family.
Mar 17, 2017
The latest health care legislation being considered by Congress will decimate Medicaid funding and result in millions of Americans losing…
Mar 17, 2017
The latest health care legislation being considered by Congress will decimate Medicaid funding and result in millions of Americans losing…
Feb 23, 2017
Extreme right-wing elected officials in Congress are determined to eliminate affordable, quality healthcare. Their actions would cause 30…
Feb 13, 2017
WHAT: Media Opportunity: Community leaders will be calling on newly-elected Congresswoman Claudia Tenney to not vote for the repeal of the…