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New York’s Healthcare Community Increasingly Concerned as Funding Deadline Approaches
Jan 16, 2018
New York’s healthcare consumers, providers, health plans and workers have grown increasingly anxious about the future since the October 1st…
Pres. Gresham: All Men and Women are Created Equal. Now is the Time for Washington to Act Like It
Jan 12, 2018
New York, NY -1199SEIU President George Gresham today released the following statement regarding President Trump’s recent comments about…
Statement on The Trump Administration Ruling To Strip Nearly 200,000 Salvadorians of Their Temporary Protection Status
Jan 8, 2018
“Today the Trump Administration ruled to strip nearly 200,000 Salvadorans of the protections afforded to them under Temporary Protected…
1199SEIU Nurses Protest Layoffs at Sapphire Nursing Home
Jan 8, 2018
Goshen, NY-This month, Sapphire Nursing & Rehab at Goshen (formerly Elant at Goshen) is planning on laying off 10 of its Registered Nurses.…
Delaire Nursing Home Caregivers Hold Vigil for Fair Contract
Dec 14, 2017
Union County Sheriff and state Senator-elect Joe Cryan came out in support of workers at the AristaCare at Delaire Nursing Home in Linden…
New Ad in NJ Targets GOP Rep. For Tax Bill Vote
Dec 7, 2017
A radio ad released this week by 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East urges that Rep. Tom MacArthur vote against the Republican tax bill…

WEEKLY CLIPS

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Florida coronavirus: 52 hospitals max out ICU capacity as cases increase
Jul 10, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A total of 52 Florida hospitals had no available intensive care unit beds on Friday – including six facilities in…
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Labor demands police reform — and in the process, confronts its troubled past
Jun 14, 2020
All it took to awaken our nation to the racism that has been the bedrock of law enforcement since slavery was a once-in-a-century pandemic…
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Healthcare workers on Staten Island take knee in solidarity with victims of police brutality
Jun 11, 2020
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) workers in Ocean Breeze on Thursday took a knee inside the entrance of the…
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As demonstrations for equal justice take new forms, some results start to emerge
Jun 11, 2020
As protests near the end of another week, the quest for equal justice is taking on new forms — and getting some results.
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Health care workers protest in support of Black Lives Matter movement
Jun 11, 2020
Health care workers joined together Thursday to stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and speak out against racism.
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Kaleida Health facilities take part in silent Vigil for Black Lives
Jun 11, 2020
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Some members of the healthcare community in Western New York came together today to stand up for victims of racial…
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