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We’re gearing up for the Medicaid fightback in 2026. Everywhere, we must call attention to the fact that protecting access to healthcare is not a partisan issue: it is supported by overwhelming majorities of Democratic and Republican voters alike. Read More

As a passionate advocate for both members’ rights and quality patient care, Ida Davis believes political action is crucial to improving the lives of working people. Read More

Members who work at the MJHS Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care on the southern tip of Brooklyn tend to stay for many years. With a contract negotiated through the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes, 1199 members benefit from labor-management collaboration, as well as fair wages and working conditions. Read More

When Hurricane Melissa tore through Jamaica in late October, 1199 members immediately began making plans to help those affected. Read More

On October 18, members from the Canadian border to the tip of Florida joined millions of fellow Americans to demand the federal government put families before billionaires and stop the deadly cuts to healthcare in the nationwide No Kings protests. Read More

More than 1,000 members at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie and Putnam Hospital in Carmel Hamlet, New York, won new minimum wages, improved shift differentials, as well as across-the-board wage increases and protection from layoffs. Read More

On the eve of a planned strike, members at Rockland Pulmonary and Medical Associates agreed their first contract Westchester Medical Center, winning 12 percent raises over the life of the three-year deal. Read More

“With the alarming behavior of the current US President, it is more important than ever to build one voice to fight back.” Read More

New York members came together to mobilize resistance to the greatest threat to healthcare in living memory. Read More

Gabe Fenigsohn is a Delegate at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, a hospital founded in 1820—the nation’s first specialty hospital. Read More

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Legislation Would Improve Access to Licensed Creative Arts Therapy Read More

Cari Medina, Executive Vice President of 1199SEIU, which represents over 85,000 healthcare workers throughout Massachusetts, issueda statement in response to reports of the stabbing of a Boston Medical Center public safety officer Read More

Elected Officials expected to read holiday stories to children Read More

The weeklong food drive will support 20 working families and local community members experiencing food insecurity following delay in SNAP benefits amid historic government shutdown Read More

The food drive will support 20 families and local community members experiencing food insecurity as SNAP benefits set to resume following halt during historic government shutdown Read More

Statement from Yvonne Armstrong, President, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East Read More

Those in power in Washington, DC, who are pushing an anti-worker/pro-billionaire agenda are counting on our silence and inaction to allow their plans to succeed. Read More

Mamdani makes his case to 1199ers in NYC to win their votes on November 4. Read More