Governor’s Budget Cuts Would Deepen NY's Homecare Worker Shortage and Force Disabled Children & Seniors Out of their Homes and into Institutions— just as Insurance Companies Continue To Earn Millions in Profits
The Home Care Savings & Reinvestment Act introduced in Albany this year is designed to stop profit-driven insurance companies from ripping off home care consumers and taxpayers. The 1199 Magazine caught up with some CDPAP members in Albany as they lobbied their elected representatives to support this legislation and protect their wages.
Members show solidarity for Women's History Month
An 1199 retiree explains why her political action with the Union never stops.
The marriage of culture and politics is a powerful force.
As working people, raising our voices together is the best way to be heard.
Members came together at Union headquarters to honor past heroes and build for the future.
Working people need to make sure we have a dog in the race.
Workers at WestMed, a consortium of doctors’ offices and urgent care centers located at seven different sites around Westchester, New York, reached out to 1199 when their conditions started to change following the corporate takeover.
Hundreds of Massachusetts 1199ers took to the streets on March 20 outside Governor Maura Healey’s office to protest her state budget proposal that threatens to cut 6,000 consumers out of the Personal Care Assistant program, which provides home care services across the state.