Aug 21, 2025
In the early morning hours of July 24, after 30 hours of bargaining over two days, new members at Northwell Health’s Core Testing Facilities and Little Neck Parkway labs reached a tentative agreement in their first contract—averting strike action.
Aug 21, 2025
New legislation amends NYS Public Health Law to protect healthcare workers by requiring hospitals and nursing homes to develop workplace violence safety and security prevention programs.
Aug 21, 2025
Monnie Callan Way was unveiled on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on June 14, commemorating a much-admired former 1199 Delegate and Social Worker who fiercely defended workers’ rights throughout her life.
Aug 21, 2025
In July, less than 24 hours after 1199ers picketed Unlimited Care, a home care agency in White Plains, NY, management signed a contract guaranteeing workers’ raises and benefits.
Aug 21, 2025
The 2,500 new home care members with the Brooklyn-based White Glove Community Care agency celebrated their first win on June 24.
Aug 21, 2025
Roughly 3,000 caregivers in a Massachusetts statefunded homecare program for seniors voted to join 1199SEIU in late July.
Aug 21, 2025
Members at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in New York City agreed to a new three-year contract on July 25
Aug 21, 2025
Just two hours before a Strike Authorization Vote was set to begin, 8,000 hospital workers at Western New York’s largest private sector employer reached a tentative, three-year contract agreement in late July.
Aug 21, 2025
Annis Stewart, an 1199 CNA and member activist who has worked at a Brooklyn nursing home for the past 18 years, tells her story. Currently working in Dietary, she is studying to become an RN.
