In the early morning hours of July 24, after 30 hours of bargaining over two days, new members at Northwell Health’s Core Testing Facilities and Little Neck Parkway labs reached a tentative agreement in their first contract—averting strike action.
More than 850 staff at Core Testing Facilities voted to join 1199SEIU last September, uniting with hundreds of fellow lab workers at the Little Neck Parkway site who joined the Union the previous December.

The agreement includes 11 percent raises over the life of the contract. The new members won the full terms of the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes contract including the 1199 National Benefit Fund no cost health insurance and the Pension, Training and Upgrading, Childcare
and Job Security funds.