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Dec 31, 2025
We’re gearing up for the Medicaid fightback in 2026. Everywhere, we must call attention to the fact that protecting access to healthcare is…
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Dec 31, 2025
When Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica in late October, 1199 members immediately began making plans to help those affected.
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Dec 31, 2025
More than 1,000 members at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie and Putnam Hospital in Carmel Hamlet, New York, won new minimum…
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Dec 31, 2025
On the eve of a planned strike, members at Rockland Pulmonary and Medical Associates agreed their first contract Westchester Medical Center,…
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Dec 31, 2025
Gabe Fenigsohn is a Delegate at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, a hospital founded in 1820—the nation’s first specialty…
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Oct 30, 2025
Those in power in Washington, DC, who are pushing an anti-worker/pro-billionaire agenda are counting on our silence and inaction to allow…
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Oct 30, 2025
Our newly elected leadership is hitting the road to listen, learn, and lead together.
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Oct 30, 2025
Ethnic diversity is what makes our Union and our country what it is – a powerful and vibrant mix of the best cultural traditions in the…
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Oct 30, 2025
Jacquelyn Wheeler—an 1199 PCT at an HCA hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida—lays out the challenges and rewards of stepping up as a Union…
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Oct 29, 2025
Nursing home members at 25 facilities in Western New York win landmark wage increases following coordinated strike action.

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