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Amid Contract Negotiations, Kaleida Health Workers Raise Concerns Around Severe Understaffing Endangering Patient Care
Jun 14, 2022
Buffalo, NY - Today, the Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East released a new joint…
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Nursing Home Workers at 5 For-Profit Facilities to Hold Informational Pickets Across WNY Next Week
Jun 10, 2022
Caregivers Demand Fair Union Contracts Including $15 per hour, Standard Wage Scales Based on Experience, and Better Staffing Levels While…
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For-Profit WNY Nursing Home Workers to Join Day of Action, Launch National Campaign to Demand Industrywide Reform
Jun 8, 2022
Buffalo, NY - 1199SEIU nursing home workers in Western New York continue their fight for fair contracts at 12 area for-profit nursing homes.…
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Nursing Home Staffing Shortages Attributed To Low Wages Offered by Downstate For-Profit Ownership Groups
Jun 2, 2022
WHY: Twelve for-profit nursing home contracts in Upstate New York covering 1,200 healthcare workers all have expired. Nursing Home workers…
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Nursing Home Staffing Shortages Attributed To Low Wages Offered by Out-Of-Town For-Profit Ownership Groups
May 31, 2022
WHY: Twelve for-profit nursing home contracts covering 1,200 healthcare workers all have expired. Nursing Home workers are represented by…
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Statement From RN Elizabeth Jazon Of 1199SEIU On Florida AHCA, Executive Order Demanding Patient Immigration Information For Partisan Political Purposes
May 31, 2022
“Doctors, nurses and other hospital workers are committed to provide the very best care possible to their patients. It’s an oath we take,…

WEEKLY CLIPS

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Nursing home workers deserve and demand better
Nov 17, 2021
Every day of the last two years, nursing home heroes have put their personal fears about the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic aside and gone to…
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Put patients over profits, healthcare workers statewide rally for nursing home reform
Mar 18, 2021
CAPITAL REGION, NY (WRGB) — Thousands of healthcare workers will call on the governor and state lawmakers to pass real nursing home reform.
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Maya Wiley Gets A Boost From Coveted Union Endorsement
Feb 19, 2021
Maya Wiley’s week may not have started well, just missing the threshold to qualify for public funds, but it’s ending with a bang: the…
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Maya Wiley Is Backed by N.Y.C.’s Largest Union, Lifting Her Bid for Mayor
Feb 19, 2021
The endorsement by Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union is a major win for Ms. Wiley. The union was a key early supporter…
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Why Trump must be impeached and removed
Jan 13, 2021
We are less than two weeks into 2021, and our nation is at a dangerous crossroads. The road behind us is littered with violent acts of…
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Exhorto a todos a que se vacunen
Dec 23, 2020
Soy un trabajador de la salud de primera línea y he visto los terribles efectos de esta pandemia de cerca, todos los días, durante nueve…
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