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2022 Tentative Agreement with Kaleida Health Read More

Member Political Organizer (MPO) Jacquelyn “Jackie” Wheeler says the best way to protect our right to vote is to…vote. Read More

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1168 and 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East have reached a tentative agreement with Kaleida Health for a new 3-year collective bargaining agreement that will cover more than 6,300 union healthcare workers at Buffalo General Medical Center, Oishei Children’s Hospital, Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, HighPointe on Michigan, DeGraff Medical Park, and various community-based clinics. The tentative agreement with the hospital system was reached late tonight, following intense all-day bargaining sessions held this week by union members and Kaleida management, as they fought to avoid a strike. Details of the agreement will not be made public until union committees are able to brief all members on the agreement. Read More

“It’s inspiring how our Florida healthcare workers have put themselves in harm’s way to care for others in Hurricane Ian, just as they have for more than two years on the front lines of the Covid-19 pandemic. But it’s sad and angering that they face even greater risk due to a critical staffing shortage created by employers that put profits over people, and state leaders who allow this to happen. Read More

Do you have federal student loans or know someone who does? Do you/they work for a not-for-profit healthcare institution or other non-profit or government organization? Read More

Here are the resources and information you need to make sure your home and workplace are prepared for the hurricane season. Read More

Statement from Tim Foley, 1199SEIU Executive Vice President, on Approval of MassHealth 1115 Waiver Read More

Expresiones de George Gresham, Presidente de 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East: Read More

Statement of George Gresham, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East: Read More

The healthcare heroes of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East will canvass neighborhoods across Florida on Saturday, September 17 in an effort to Get Out The Vote (GOTV) and support candidates that will serve the needs of working Floridians. Read More

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Healthcare workers within the nursing, clinical, technical, service, and clerical departments at Kaleida Health, who are represented by CWA Local 1168 and 1199SEIU, have overwhelmingly voted in favor of authorizing a strike should it be necessary. Having already extended their contract twice after months of bargaining, workers are exhausted and fed up with staffing shortages that have increased their patient loads exponentially and compromised the quality of care. They are seeking a fair contract that will enable Kaleida Health to recruit and retain critical staff and meet its new safe staffing ratios as required by state law, so that patients receive the quality care they need and deserve. Read More

After two years of sometimes tumultuous negotiations, an overwhelming majority of healthcare workers at WMC/HealthAlliance Hospital, members of 1199SEIU United Health Care Workers East, have ratified their first collective bargaining agreement. They voted to join 1199SEIU in early 2020. The contract includes: Read More

Buffalo, NY – Nearly 350 Nursing Home Workers at four area for-profit facilities overwhelmingly ratified multi-year contracts late last week, while workers at two facilities authorized 5-day strikes in their continued fight for a fair contract. Caregivers are part of a joint campaign of more than 1,200 nursing home workers at 12 for-profit facilities across Western New York who held one-day strikes mid-July. Read More

Albany, NY. 1199SEIU, the largest union of healthcare workers in the country, has serious concerns about implementing New York's nursing home staffing law. For two years, the public praised nursing home workers and low-wage caregivers as the heroes of the COVID pandemic. Yet, they are being driven away from the bedside by employers providing inadequate wages and benefits. In addition, nursing home owners are not implementing effective recruitment/retention policies and practices. Consequently, they are forcing staff to work in facilities with an insufficient number of caregivers and workers to provide quality care. Read More

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New York, NY—Today, 1199SEIU homecare workers testified at the City Council’s Civil Service and Labor Committee regarding Intro 175. This bill restricts the maximum working hours of homecare workers but is written in such a way that would cause major disruption to homecare services throughout the city, jeopardizing care, jobs, and capping workers’ ability to earn overtime pay. Read More

Following the Supreme Court ruling this summer to reverse the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision and remove the constitutional right to abortion, states like New York are already seeing a significant influx of people who live elsewhere and need to terminate their pregnancies safely. Read More

When 1199 ventured into the organizing of hospital workers in 1959, the Union’s leaders and members, who were overwhelmingly white males at the time, nevertheless understood the need to address issues that were paramount to women workers. Read More

Some 2,000 new Union delegates took their oath of office on June 14th alongside the newly elected 1199SEIU leadership team, being sworn in at a ceremony in midtown Manhattan. Read More

Roughly one thousand new members voted to join the 1199SEIU family this summer with landmark wins in both Massachusetts and New York. Read More