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+50 Workers, Consumers, & Legislators Demand State Stop Multibillion Dollar Giveaway to Private Insurers
Feb 1, 2024
Speakers called on Governor Hochul to end hugely wasteful program that diverts billions in taxpayer money meant for vulnerable New Yorkers…
Local Hospital & Nursing Home Workers Join Statewide Effort in Albany Demanding Full Funding for New Yorkers Covered by Medicaid Health Insurance Program
Jan 24, 2024
Local Healthcare workers traveled to Albany to yesterday to lobby WNY Senate & Assemblymembers in demand for full funding to Medicaid Health…
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1199SEIU Files Two Unfair Labor Practice Charges Against Orleans Community Health
Jan 18, 2024
Union files charges with National Labor Relations Board alleging the employer violated labor law by bargaining in bad faith and…
1199SEIU/GNYHA Response to Governor Hochul’s Proposed State Budget
Jan 16, 2024
In her State of the State address on January 9, Governor Hochul noted that “hospitals in New York are struggling financially more than in…
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1199SEIU To Hold 43rd Annual MLK Celebration at University of Rochester Medical Center Monday at 11AM
Jan 15, 2024
Program will celebrate Dr. King’s work in the labor movement and commitment to workers’ rights through music, poetry, and dance with keynote…
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Union Healthcare Workers at Orleans Community Health Sites in Medina, Batavia, and Albion Vote To Authorize Informational Picket
Jan 12, 2024
Hospital and clinic caregivers are fighting for living wages and quality benefits to help retain and recruit more staff to care for patients…

WEEKLY CLIPS

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Florida coronavirus: 52 hospitals max out ICU capacity as cases increase
Jul 10, 2020
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A total of 52 Florida hospitals had no available intensive care unit beds on Friday – including six facilities in…
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Labor demands police reform — and in the process, confronts its troubled past
Jun 14, 2020
All it took to awaken our nation to the racism that has been the bedrock of law enforcement since slavery was a once-in-a-century pandemic…
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Healthcare workers on Staten Island take knee in solidarity with victims of police brutality
Jun 11, 2020
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH) workers in Ocean Breeze on Thursday took a knee inside the entrance of the…
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As demonstrations for equal justice take new forms, some results start to emerge
Jun 11, 2020
As protests near the end of another week, the quest for equal justice is taking on new forms — and getting some results.
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Health care workers protest in support of Black Lives Matter movement
Jun 11, 2020
Health care workers joined together Thursday to stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and speak out against racism.
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Kaleida Health facilities take part in silent Vigil for Black Lives
Jun 11, 2020
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Some members of the healthcare community in Western New York came together today to stand up for victims of racial…
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