One of every four Filipinos in the New York-New Jersey area is employed in the health care industry. With at least 30 worker deaths and many more family members lost to the coronavirus, a community at the epicenter of the pandemic has been left reeling.
Miramar—In the midst of a widespread shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the state’s largest healthcare union has facilitated a donation of 20,000 KN95 masks that will be distributed to long-term care facilities across the state.
MIAMI----Two months into the COVID-19 crisis and with the numbers of confirmed cases spiking in the state’s long-term care (LTC) facilities, nursing home workers still are facing dangerous shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) and a lack of information from employers while they care for Floridians most vulnerable to the highly contagious virus.
Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has called on the state government to better protect nursing home residents and caregivers as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak surges across the state. Patients and workers at long-term care facilities face special risks against the highly contagious virus.
Montefiore Nyack Hospital on Wednesday celebrated the discharge of its 400th patient who has recovered from COVID-19 since the hospital began treating people for the virus.
1199SEIU Position Statement on the Decontamination & Reuse of N-95 Masks
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When a Union of virtually all male pharmacy workers began organizing hospital workers in 1959, they unleashed an army of working women leaders. Those leaders have helped to make 1199 the largest and most powerful healthcare union in the nation. Today, the executive committee of the Union is 2/3 women.
In March, Massachusetts home health workers welcomed Joe Kennedy III and U.S. Senator Ed Markey into their homes to hear about the struggles of personal care attendants and walk a day in our shoes to learn about the real-life experience of caregiving. Kennedy is running against Markey for the U.S. Senate seat representing Massachusetts. Kennedy visited several homecare workers in Springfield, while Markey spent the day with PCA Janice Guzman and her family in Worcester.
To prepare for the upcoming election and U.S. Census, as well as educating members about the realities of health disparities and systemic conditions in our communities, 1199ers gathered recently for an unprecedented series of meeting held in the five boroughs of New York City and on Long Island.