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Reliance on Agency Workers & Lack of Competitive Wages Will Push Nursing Home Workers To Picket Wednesday in Kenmore
Nov 27, 2023
1199SEIU Delivered 10-Day Notice To Schofield Residence Administrators Last Week To Hold Informational Picket Outside Kenmore Facility
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Healthcare Worker Strike Averted! Members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East Overwhelmingly Vote To Ratify Contract
Nov 22, 2023
After months of protracted bargaining, healthcare workers at Nathan Littauer Hospital and Nursing Home, members of 1199SEIU United…
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In Near Unanimous Vote, Patient Caregivers and Service Workers at URMC Overwhelmingly Authorize Strike In Demand For Living Wages, Improved Staffing, And Quality Benefits To Help Recruit & Retain Staff From Largest Private Sector Employer in Upstate
Nov 21, 2023
99% of voting members authorize a strike lasting up to 2 days. Unions and management set to resume negotiations on November 28 as labor…
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Patient Caregivers & Student Service Workers Hold Strike Authorization Vote Tuesday As Labor Tensions Escalate With Largest Private Sector Employer in State, URMC In Demand For Living Wages, Improved Staffing, And Quality Benefits To Lift Some Low Wage Earners Out of Poverty
Nov 20, 2023
Negotiations end abruptly today as NYS Senator Brouk urges leaders to avoid strike.
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1199SEIU Caregivers, Lawmakers including Chuck Schumer & Employers Call Attention to Worker Shortages in Healthcare
Nov 20, 2023
National Apprenticeship Week Highlights Critical Need
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1199SEIU on One Brooklyn Health’s CEO Announcement
Nov 20, 2023
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East released the following statement in response to today’s decision by the Board of Trustees of One…

WEEKLY CLIPS

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Home care aides: unsung, underpaid, indispensable
Sep 8, 2020
She does it willingly, a responsibility she sees as vitally important, and it is worth a moment on a holiday meant to honor working people…
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"We are in jeopardy every day we go into work:" Nursing home employees protest dangerous work conditions
Sep 4, 2020
MAITLAND, Fla. – Employees of Florida’s largest nursing home company are protesting dangerous work conditions a day after Gov. Ron DeSantis…
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Miami ICU nurse: I have never in my life seen so many Deaths
Aug 22, 2020
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Their final breaths are tormented. Rublas Ruiz has seen too many of them -- the last gasps of 17 men and women…
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Nursing Homes to Get 7 Million N95 Masks From Federal Stockpile
Aug 17, 2020
Nursing homes across the U.S. will receive a total of 7 million N95 respirators from the federal stockpile, a White House spokesperson told…
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Florida's care workers battle to protect the elderly
Aug 17, 2020
No place seems safe for Elonda English, not even her car.
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Advocates Apply Pressure on Jones and Ferguson to Reconvene
Jul 28, 2020
Advocates from across the state penned a letter to Maryland House and Senate leaders Monday, imploring them to convene a special session to…
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