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1199SEIU is committed to making sure that you are informed, safe, and properly compensated as we respond to COVID-19. This document will be continually updated to keep you informed.
1199SEIU is committed to making sure that you are informed, safe, and properly compensated as we respond to COVID-19. This document will be continually updated to keep you informed.
Frontline healthcare workers are doing everything they can to keep patients, communities and themselves alive during this crisis. But too many don’t have the personal protective equipment (PPE), the medical equipment, or the tests they need. The administration must immediately invoke the Defense Production Act to manufacture much needed equipment, and release PPE from the Strategic Defense Stockpile. Essential workers lives’ are on the line! #GetMePPE
Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center in Brooklyn has turned into a coronavirus “war zone,” where at least 20 patients have died of the illness and 178 others are hospitalized — 100 of whom have tested positive with the rest awaiting test results, according to a report.
New York, NY - 1199SEIU President George Gresham released the following statement thanking New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand for helping to secure federal healthcare funding to fight the COVID-19 crisis:
Nurses at Brookdale Hospital are currently on the front line in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.
Miramar, FL - The following open letter from Dale Ewart, Acting Executive Vice President of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, was sent to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on March 25, 2020. Sent on behalf of 24,0000 nurses and other healthcare workers united as 1199SEIU, the letter calls for the following to protect public health and frontline healthcare workers:
1199SEIU is committed to making sure that you are informed, safe, and properly compensated as we respond to COVID-19. This document will be continually updated to keep you informed.