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Aug 25, 2021
From the start of the pandemic early last year, we and other health-care workers across the state sacrificed our health — and risked our…

Aug 24, 2021
ROCHESTER, NY — Home care workers and consumers will rally in support of President Biden’s Home Care Proposal, calling on Congress to sign…

Healthcare Workers Union 1199SEIU Hosts Roundtable Discussion About The Better Care, Better Jobs Act
Aug 19, 2021
While President Biden's “soft infrastructure bills” are one of the most critical issues being
debated in Washington, DC this summer, on…

Aug 10, 2021
Negotiations for a new union contract covering more than 2,000 service workers represented by 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East and…

Aug 6, 2021
“1199SEIU mourns the passing of AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka. We send our deepest condolences to his loved ones. President Trumka was a…

Aug 5, 2021
New York, NY – 1199SEIU President George Gresham today released the following statement:
WEEKLY CLIPS

Jun 25, 2018
President Donald Trump still wants to deny due process to unauthorized immigrants crossing the United States border, sending a pair of…

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…

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…

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…

Jun 13, 2018
BOSTON -- A House-controlled committee on Tuesday advanced a 127-page health care bill that includes $450 million in assessments on…

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…