Healthcare workers are our most valuable resource in addressing COVID-19, and keeping healthcare workers safe must be our top priority. 1199SEIU, the nation’s largest healthcare workers’ union, has been working tirelessly with our members and partners to make sure our healthcare workers have what they need to do their job well and under the best conditions possible. Learn more here about how workers can protect themselves and how you can stand with workers on the frontlines of this crisis.
We are in desperate need of resources to stop the spread of COVID-19 and the toll it continues to take. Healthcare workers can't do it alone. The federal government must do its part. Without providing access to lifesaving personal protective equipment (PPE) and crisis pay to cover essential bills, childcare, and transportation to work, healthcare workers are being forced to choose between caring for their patients and caring for their families.
1199ers have been demanding PPE for months, and have still not received what they need to stay safe as they battle COVID-19. Police officers are able to show up for protests in full protective gear.
What does this say about how our healthcare system is funded? #FundTheFrontlines
VIDEO: 1199 files complaint with OSHA and Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration over failure to protect staff at a Florida nursing home.
“The goal is to give workers proper PPE. The goal is to protect the patient, to protect the workers, protect the community,” said Margarette Nerette, an 1199SEIU Vice President in Florida. #GetMePPE #WeAreEssential
United Healthcare Workers Union claims Florida nursing homes putting worker, patient lives at risk
www.winknews.com
A certified nursing assistant at Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare, who only wanted to be identified by the name “Julie”, said management hid cases of COVID-19 from staff and failed to provide proper protective equipment. She provided proof of employment at the facility to WINK News, b...“I’m not afraid to work. I would take care of anyone, but if I’m sick, how am I going to be any good for a patient?” says Carlenia Milanes, an LPN at Alaris Health at Hamilton Park in Jersey City, N.J. She is a single mother whose 7- and 10-year-old daughters have since shown symptoms of COVID-19 as well. “I’m somebody’s mother. I’m somebody’s sister. I’m somebody’s daughter. And granted yes, this is what I signed up for, but protect me.” #WeAreEssential #GetMePPE
Milanes spent weeks unwittingly caring for #COVID19 patients at the nursing home while the facility initially prohibited employees from wearing masks, according to a lawsuit filed April 22. The suit claims the nursing home hid coronavirus cases from employees, “refused to test patients and pressured staff to work even if they had symptoms of the highly contagious and deadly disease, all while patients and staff alike were dying of COVID-19.”
'I Just Don’t Want to Die.' Nursing Home Workers Face Risks in Facilities Devastated by Coronavirus
time.com
"This is what I signed up for, but protect me."
