ANNOUNCEMENTS
1199SEIU PRES. GRESHAM THANKS SENATORS SCHUMER AND GILLIBRAND FOR PUSH FOR FEDERAL DOLLARS TO FIGHT COVID-19
December 16, 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Stuart Marques Stuart.Marques@1199.org | 917.273.6194 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:...
Read MoreFLORIDA HEALTHCARE WORKERS WITH 1199SEIU UNION REJECT WEAKENED COVID-19 PROTECTIONS AT HCA HOSPITALS
December 16, 2020CONTACT: Ed Gilhuly | egilhuly@leftcom.com | 305.807.6906 MIAMI---Nurses with Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, have rejected new COVID-19 protocols from Hospital Corporation of America that weaken protections for caregivers against the highly contagious virus in HCA facilities around...
Read MoreFLORIDA’S LARGEST HEALTHCARE UNION CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE GOVERNMENT ACTION TO STEM DEEPER HEALTH CRISIS AS COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS SURGES IN STATE
December 16, 2020CONTACT: Ed Gilhuly | egilhuly@leftcom.com | 305.807.6906 MIAMI----With COVID-19 surging in Florida, the state’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has outlined a variety protocols and demands to government officials designed protect caregivers and to prevent an even more dire public...
Read MoreFLORIDA’S LARGEST HEALTHCARE UNION 1199SEIU CALLS ON STATE OFFICIALS TO ENSURE BETTER PROTECTIONS FOR NURSING HOME RESIDENTS, PATIENTS FROM COVID-19
December 16, 2020FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Ed Gilhuly | 305.807.6906 | egilhuly@leftcom.com Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has called on the state government to better protect nursing home residents and caregivers as the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak surges across the state....
Read MoreCONSULATE NURSING HOME NAMED IN OSHA, AHCA COMPLAINTS FOR PUTTING PATIENTS, CAREGIVERS AT “HIGH-RISK” OF COVID-19 INFECTION
December 16, 2020Media Contact: Ed Gilhuly | 305-807-6906 | egilhuly@leftcom.com FORT MYERS---Florida’s largest healthcare union, 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, has filed official complaints with federal and state agencies against Consulate Heritage Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Fort Myers for a “blatant disregard” of...
Read MoreWMC HEALTHCARE WORKERS AT FIVE LOCATIONS ARE HOLDING INFORMATIONAL PICKETS FOR HAZARD/RECOGNITION PAY
December 16, 2020MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Mindy Berman | 518.229.0486 MEMBERS OF 1199SEIU SAY THAT BEING CALLED HEROES ISN’T SERIOUS RECOGNITION OF THEIR SACRIFICES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC WHAT: After more than three months of facing enormous pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic, and Westchester Medical...
Read More1199SEIU PRES. GRESHAM’S STATEMENT ON THE NYS DOH REPORT ON COVID-19 INFECTIONS AND FATALITIES IN NURSING HOMES
December 16, 2020New York, NY - 1199SEIU President George Gresham today released the following statement regarding the release of the New York State Department of Health’s report on COVID-19 infections and fatalities in nursing homes: “Nursing home caregivers did everything they could to...
Read More1199SEIU POSITION STATEMENT ON COVID-19 VACCINE
December 16, 2020The hardworking women and men of 1199SEIU have been on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic for nine months. During this time, they have bravely fought to save lives, even through the fear of contracting the disease and endangering the...
Read MoreNYC LABOR LEADERS CALL ON GOVERNOR, MAYOR, AND POLICE COMMISSIONER TO PUT A STOP TO POLICE BRUTALITY
June 7, 2020CONTACT: Cara Noel | cara.noel@1199.org | 646-617-7844 Julie Blust | jblust@seiu32bj.org | 215-713-6777 The systemic assault on the Black body has gone on for far too long—400 years and counting. We are outraged and heartbroken over the police murder of George Floyd, just as...
Read MoreCONCERNED AND EXHAUSTED, FRONTLINE HEALTHCARE WORKERS AT TWO NUVANCE HOSPITALS IN NEW YORK’S HUDSON VALLEY WILL HOLD SILENT VIGILS DEMANDING HAZARD PAY
June 4, 2020MEDIA ADVISORY Contact: Mindy Berman | 518.229.0486 After three months of facing enormous pressure during the COVID-19 pandemic, 1199SEIU healthcare workers at Vassar Brothers Medical Center and Putnam Hospital are demanding to be recognized with compensation in the form of...
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