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Upstate, NY – Just two hours before a strike authorization vote was set to begin, unionized Hospital workers at Upstate Western New York’s largest private sector employer reached a 3-year tentative agreement. The tentative agreement with Kaleida Health cancels the strike authorization vote that was set to begin in just hours. Read More

Upstate, NY – Union nursing home workers at Corning Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare overwhelmingly voted to ratify a 3-year contract late Friday. The new labor contract comes after caregivers were ready to hit the picket lines to fight for improved staffing levels, quality health insurance, and competitive wages to help retain and recruit more caregivers. Nursing home workers are represented by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest healthcare workers union in the country. Read More

Yvonne Armstrong, President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, issued the following statement on today’s House vote: Read More

“We are Being Short-Changed by Unlimited Care!” Read More

1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East today announced its endorsement of Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill for Governor of New Jersey. The union represents some 8,000 nursing home, hospital, and pharmacy workers throughout New Jersey and 450,000 caregivers on the East Coast. Read More

“By passing a budget that cuts over $1 trillion in healthcare funding, Republicans would be condemning tens of thousands of vulnerable Americans to death each year. It is hard to imagine a more egregious exchange—taking healthcare from vulnerable children, seniors, and working families to give billionaires extravagant tax cuts. The Senate bill is an appalling testament to moral cowardice and greed while breaking every promise that Republicans made to protect Medicaid. The healthcare workers of 1199SEIU call on the House of Representatives to vote this budget down and restore the healthcare funding that millions of Americans rely on.” Read More

The clerical, paralegal and social work staff of Legal Aid, members of 1199SEIU, issued the following statement in support of UAW Local 2325 Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys (“ALAA”) in their fight to achieve a fair and equitable contract. Late yesterday, 91% of UAW Local 2325 members voted to authorize a strike. Read More

Labor Contract Covering Nearly 8,000 Hospital Workers Is Now Set To Expire Friday, July 4 At 11:59 PM With A Strike Authorization Vote Just Days Away Read More

Labor contract covering nearly 8,000 hospital workers is set to expire Friday at 11:59 PM as a strike authorization vote and Congressional cuts to Medicaid Coverage Looms Read More

As Hospital workers agree to third contract extension, talks over key economic issues will continue through Friday Read More

1199SEIU reached a 3-year Tentative Agreement with Corning Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare late last week. The new agreement comes as caregivers were ready to hit the picket lines to fight for improved staffing levels, quality health insurance, and competitive wages to help retain and recruit more caregivers. Read More

Today we celebrate Juneteenth—the day honoring the end of slavery in the United States. It was exactly 160 years ago that freedom was achieved in Texas, the last state where enslaved people were formally freed after the Civil War. Read More

Forging a fresh path for our Union from the ground up. Read More

Massachusetts members press their elected representatives in Boston. Read More

Our newly-elected President sets out her vision for her first 100 days. Read More

1199ers at UHealth Tower, formerly known as University of Miami Hospital, officially launched their Jobs Committee in May, after it was established in their most recent contract. Read More

1199ers gathered in solidarity with United Farm Workers (UFW) and community allies who were rallying on May 19 in Brooklyn to demand the release of 14 UFW worker leaders detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Read More

Workers at Citywide Mobile Response have come together to form a union with 1199SEIU, joining over 3,000 first responders from across New York State, who are already represented. Read More

1199 Nursing home members at Schoellkopf Health Center in Niagara Falls, Upstate New York, ratified a new agreement in early May, which included average wage increases of up to 28 per cent over the three-year contract. Read More

Members at United Medical Center, located in the southeast of Washington D.C., worked their last day on April 15. The hospital had served the community for six decades, but the city, which had managed UMC since 2010, first announced that the hospital would shut its doors in 2019. Read More