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Marlyn Hoilette, a longtime member leader of 1199SEIU Florida and a registered nurse at HCA Florida Palms West Hospital, took a top role at a national nurse conference and rally in Miami that highlighted the staffing, retention and care crisis in healthcare facilities across the country.
Healthcare & Service Workers Demand Living Wage To Recruit & Retain More Staff While Leaders At University of Rochester Have Seen Their Salaries Nearly Double In Recent Years
Informational Picket & Press Conference Set For This Week Called-Off After Downstate For-Profit Owners Began Paying Two of Three Owed Bonuses.
“The selection of Rep. Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House—with unanimous Republican support—underscores how entirely out-of-step the Republican Party is with the American people. Rep. Johnson has a reprehensible voting record: he voted to gut nutrition programs for children, criminalize abortion, end Social Security, and eliminate the Violence Against Women Act.
Informational Picket Set for Wednesday Is Now Called-Off. A Press Conference Will Be Held Friday If Caregivers Do Not Begin Receiving Their Earned Bonus Money.
Caregivers Win 18% Wage Increases, Improvements in Health Insurance & Other Benefits
Embracing ethnic diversity is not only just, but it is also the key to maintaining our power.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month in September, two members share their stories.
More than 350 nurses from SEIU locals from numerous states recently gathered in Miami for a dynamic professional development conference and a dramatic rally that highlighted the staffing, retention and care crisis in healthcare facilities in Florida and across the country.
Supervisors at HCA Florida Regional Hospital had been failing to properly follow the staffing rotation and rules by regularly sending O.R. nurses home early before their shifts were supposed to end, forcing nurses to use their PTO.