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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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Inside the Stealth Campaign for ‘Responsible Rent Reform’
Jun 10, 2019
Landlords and developers, fending off a new Democratic majority and proposed rent laws, have adopted some of the tactics of their…
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NY labor leaders putting pressure on state lawmakers in fight of rent reform
May 13, 2019
ALBANY — Labor leaders are turning their political muscle toward the fight for rent reform.
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Hospitals in the Council’s crosshairs: A green buildings bill would hobble the city’s health-care institutions
Apr 9, 2019
The City Council is moving quickly to pass a “green buildings” bill that would dramatically reduce the carbon emissions of every building in…
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Federal judge blocks Medicaid work requirements in Kentucky and Arkansas
Mar 28, 2019
A federal judge in Washington threw a significant roadblock into the Trump administration’s efforts to compel poor people on Medicaid to…
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Black Patients Miss Out On Promising Cancer Drugs
Mar 27, 2019
It’s a promising new drug for multiple myeloma, one of the most savage blood cancers. Called Ninlaro, it can be taken as a pill, sparing…
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Legal Weed in N.J. Failed. But Murphy Says He Will Soon Expand Medical Marijuana to as Many as 200K Patients.
Mar 26, 2019
Only hours after after a bill that would legalize marijuana in New Jersey was shelved over a lack of support, Gov. Phil Murphy on Monday…
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