Apr 30, 2023
“I came to this country as a single mother with a young boy in 1991,” says Dr. Marlene Malcolm, a Jamaican immigrant to New York who started…
Apr 30, 2023
A lot can change in four days. When the 500 members of 1199SEIU’s League Bargaining Committee started the process of negotiating with the…
Apr 28, 2023
Members at the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Midtown campus ratified their strongest contract ever in February, after months of…
Apr 28, 2023
It was a crisp and sunny morning on March 21st, when thousands of 1199 members from all over New York State converged around the Capitol…
Apr 27, 2023
In 1959, a group of 5000 New York City drugstore workers made the audacious decision to organize the city’s hospital workers. It was…
Apr 26, 2023
Members and community allies, led by 1199SEIU President George Gresham, stopped traffic during rush hour in an act of non-violent civil…
Apr 26, 2023
The time for a reckoning has come. In the early days of the pandemic, when hundreds or thousands of members were going into work—many of…
Mar 6, 2023
The 1969 Charleston, South Carolina hospitals strike was an early test of 1199’s strategy of joining union power with soul (civil rights)…
Mar 6, 2023
Lillian Bannister became an 1199 member in 1994, when she started as PCA at Our Lady of Mercy in the Bronx. By the time she retired at
age…
Mar 6, 2023
Charlie Hilario has been an 1199 activist for more than two decades, volunteering to take part in the Union’s political campaigns from the…
