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.
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.
Forging a fresh path for our Union from the ground up.
Massachusetts members press their elected representatives in Boston.
Our newly-elected President sets out her vision for her first 100 days.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.