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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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Trump Really Does Not Want to Give Unauthorized Immigrants Seeking Asylum Due Process
Jun 25, 2018
President Donald Trump still wants to deny due process to unauthorized immigrants crossing the United States border, sending a pair of…
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Whittier Workers Officially Reinstated, Set to Vote in Union Election
Jun 19, 2018
The 20 workers who were suddenly laid off from Whittier Street Health Center last week, then reinstated on Sunday, only to be kicked off the…
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Labor: The First Black-Led Union Wouldn’t Have Existed Without this Woman
Jun 19, 2018
Pullman porters formed the first black-led union to be recognized by the American Federation of Labor— and Rosina Tucker became one of the…
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The Daily 202: Trump team cannot get its story straight on separating migrant families
Jun 18, 2018
THE BIG IDEA: “We do not have a policy of separating families at the border,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen tweeted last…
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Over $450M in Fees Eyed to Help Hospitals
Jun 13, 2018
BOSTON -- A House-controlled committee on Tuesday advanced a 127-page health care bill that includes $450 million in assessments on…
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Jordan workers push for contract
Jun 13, 2018
As a few dozen Anthony L. Jordan Health Center employees marched back and forth in front of their workplace last week, they made a few…
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