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1199SEIU and Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) proudly announce their endorsement of Maura Healey for re-election as Governor of Massachusetts. Read More

Bedside hospital caregivers, service, and campus workers continue bargaining for new labor deal as affordability crisis grows and more workers demand union rights, representation, and quality benefits at Upstate’s largest employer Read More

Bedside hospital caregivers, service, and campus workers continue bargaining for new labor deal as affordability crisis grows and more workers demand union rights, representation, and quality benefits at Upstate’s largest employer Read More

The Buffalo Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, area Labor Unions, and Erie County Legislator Lawrence Dupre will host a day-long back-to-school event to help local children prepare for the school year and connect community members with Union job opportunities Read More

1199SEIU, Community Organizations, Elected Officials gather at Seabreeze Amusement Park to activate healthcare workers in effort to protect healthcare funding in the upcoming general election Read More

The Buffalo Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, area Labor Unions, and Erie County Legislator Lawrence Dupre will host a day-long back-to-school event to help local children prepare for the school year and connect community members with Union job opportunities Read More

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) asked the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to put Covenant House New York’s (“Covenant House”) appeal of a 2025 injunction on hold while it seeks contempt damages for Covenant House’s “contumacious violations” of the injunction. Read More

Tampa Bay working families need a strong supportive voice in the Florida Senate, and they will continue to have one with a dedicated leader and champion of the people Michele Rayner. The members of 1199SEIU, the state’s largest union of healthcare workers, enthusiastically endorse her in for State Senate District 16. Read More

Bedside hospital caregivers, service, and campus workers set to bargain new contract as more workers demand union rights and representation at Upstate’s largest employer Read More

Changes in working conditions and staffing levels spur hundreds of nurses to unionize Read More

With Floridians facing an unprecedented affordability crisis, members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East have endorsed local, state and federal candidates in the 2026 primary election who have pledged to fight for working families. Read More

PCAs negotiated a two-year contract that invests in caregivers and those we care for Read More

1199SEIU unequivocally stands against the federal government weaponizing the justice system to intimidate healthcare providers to stop providing life-saving gender affirming healthcare. Read More

Nation’s Largest Healthcare Union w/300,000 NY Members Supports Gov. for Reelection Read More

New York, NY–After hours of round-the-clock bargaining, a tentative agreement covering 86,000 healthcare workers across downstate NY was reached at 5:30 a.m. this morning between 1199SEIU and the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes of New York (“the League”). Read More

Dozens of Bargaining Committee members from 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East have shared how the affordability crisis in Florida is impacting healthcare workers, as well as serious concerns with AI overreach, in multiple rounds of contract negotiations since they began April 2 with 19 HCA hospitals across the state. Read More

1199SEIU members stood with a diverse group of New Yorkers and elected leaders to condemn the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) decision ending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for roughly 330,000 Haitian and Syrian nationals. Read More

After a co-worker was pricked with a “live” needle at Florida Medical Center (FMC) in Fort Lauderdale, numerous members of 1199SEIU signed onto a grievance that resulted in the delivery of proper equipment and a safer workplace. Read More

Longtime union leader DeQuasia Canales has always been fully dedicated to improving the workplaces and lives of members all across the country, from her early days as a social worker and union steward to organizing union workers across the country, and now serving today as the Acting Executive Vice President for the Florida region of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East. Read More

Led by the 1199SEIU Nurse Council, groups of RNs and LPNs recently gathered at three in-person nurse meet-ups in Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade counties to build connections and foster leadership, engagement and power in their workplaces in 2026. Read More