1199 Magazine

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Mar 6, 2023
New York City contracts with nonprofits to provide billions of dollars’ worth of critical social services to New Yorkers in need. But…
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Feb 22, 2023
It’s been just a few months since 1199ers pulled out all the stops to secure a full-term for New York State Governor Kathy Hochul. Members…
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Feb 22, 2023
1199 Home Care members convened at the New York State capital on January 25, for a press conference to urge lawmakers to pass a much-needed…
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Feb 22, 2023
Our country has been celebrating Black History Month for nearly half a century, since it was adopted in 1976, following a campaign by…
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Feb 22, 2023
There’s an old saying that if you want the rich to work harder, you pay them more. If you want the poor to work harder, you pay them less.
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Jan 4, 2023
The past year has been an especially good one for 1199 home care members in New York State. In February, an arbitrator issued an historic…
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Jan 4, 2023
As the country went into the midterm elections on November 8, the GOP was crowing about an expected “red wave” – counting on voters’ fears…
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Jan 4, 2023
“I am an entertainer in my soul,” says DJ Ketchup—aka Chaheem Priest, an 1199 Resident Support Worker at Glendale Nursing Home in…
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Jan 3, 2023
Just one month after marking National Physician Assistants week, a group of 345 Physician Assistants (PAs) at Montefiore Medical Center’s…
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Jan 3, 2023
More than 6,300 healthcare workers at the largest private hospital system in Western New York won a new three-year contract in October,…


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