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1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds to honor Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky at Basil Paterson Scholarship event
Apr 1, 2021
Airbnb provided free housing to members across six states during pandemic
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Statement from 1199SEIU’s Roxey Nelson calling for a special election in Florida Senate District 37
Mar 18, 2021
“A special election must be called by the governor for Florida Senate District 37 because it’s so blatantly clear that the November race was…
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1199SEIU Statement Condemning Racist Attacks Against Asian-Americans
Mar 16, 2021
New York, NY - 119SEIU President George Gresham has released the following statement regarding recent racially motivated attacks against…
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1199 Statement on Signing of American Rescue Plan
Mar 11, 2021
1199SEIU President George Gresham released the following statement regarding President Joe Biden’s signing of the American Rescue Plan:
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1199SEIU calls on NYS Department of Health to reverse course over dramatic scale-down of St John’s Episcopal Hospital
Mar 3, 2021
“Reports that the State Department of Health is planning to dramatically cut health care services in one of the hardest hit areas of New…
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Healthcare Workers Object To HCA’s Demand To Strip Anti-discrimination Workplace Protections At Florida Hospitals
Feb 19, 2021
MIAMI----Members of the state’s largest union of healthcare workers, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, are objecting to a contract…

WEEKLY CLIPS

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Nursing Assistants Picket Over Wages at Centers Nursing homes
Nov 28, 2018
QUEENSBURY — Low pay and expensive health insurance is leaving the Centers nursing homes understaffed, workers said as they picketed outside…
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Emerald South shutdown set for Jan. 31, 2019
Nov 27, 2018
A timeline for the shutdown of Emerald South Nursing & Rehabilitation Center has been set, with closure expected by late January.
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Emerald South Nursing Home to Close After Slew of Scandals
Nov 13, 2018
The New York State Department of Health appointed The Grand Healthcare System to operate Emerald North and Emerald South Nursing and…
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‘The U.S. Mail Is Not for Sale’: Postal Workers Speak Out
Oct 17, 2018
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Jonathan Smith, head of the New York Metro Area Postal Union, entered the Hunts Point Station post office in the Bronx on the…
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State's health care workforce up 18% in past decade
Oct 16, 2018
Health care employment in the state increased by more than 18% in the past 10 years, more than double the growth rate of overall employment,…
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CMS preparing rules for nursing home staff fines, home personal care oversight
Oct 15, 2018
The CMS is looking to increase its oversight of post-acute care settings through new civil money penalties on nursing home staff and a new…
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