Close to 600 caregivers at Peconic Bay Medical Center (“Peconic Bay”) are fighting for a fair contract. After months of negotiations where management has not agreed to the healthcare workers’ demand for equal pay for equal work—comparable to what their colleagues earn doing the exact same jobs at other Northwell institutions—the caregivers picketed the hospital today.
1199SEIU Filed Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against UR Medicine Homecare for Bargaining in Bad Faith As 400 People Sign Public Petition Demanding That URMHC President & CEO Greg Hutton Settle Fair First Contract
UHealth Tower nurse Martha Wydra has many reasons to beam with pride these days. She recently graduated from NSU, Nova Southeastern University. She earned her Masters and Doctorate degrees simultaneously. As a working mother of four children, this was no easy feat.
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199SEIU Filed Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against UR Medicine Homecare for Bargaining in Bad Faith As 400 People Sign Public Petition Demanding That URMHC President & CEO Greg Hutton Settle Fair First Contract
Union members won historic raises, kept pension, and began to rein in employee healthcare costs
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More than 1,000 Florida nursing home workers now have a new contract. It was recently ratified after months of often intense negotiations between bargaining team members with 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest union representing healthcare workers in Florida and nursing home owner and operator Aspire Health Group, one of the biggest companies in the industry.
The ICE raids in Newark yesterday—and elsewhere across the nation—are utterly appalling and shameful. Hardworking, law-abiding people, American citizens and residents alike, are being profiled and dragged violently out of their neighborhoods and places of work. This is in clear violation of due process and our constitution.