Done Deal: Massachusetts PCA's Get Their Contract!Nov. 26, 2008Personal Care Attendants, consumers and community leaders are celebrating a historic victory in Massachusetts, after PCAs ratified their first-ever union contract - increasing wages and benefits for more than 25,000 home care workers currently caring for seniors and people with disabilities across the Bay State. Read More » |
Governor Corzine Joins New Jersey 1199 Members in Merger CelebrationNov. 25, 2008New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine joined 1199SEIU President George Gresham, and Milly Silva, Executive Vice President for the New Jersey Division, and over 200 union members for an evening of dinner and dancing to celebrate the merger of the former Local 1199NJ with 1199SEIU. Read More » |
President-elect Barack Obama Names 1199’s Patrick Gaspard to Be White House Political DirectorNov. 24, 2008Patrick Gaspard, 1199SEIU Executive Vice President for Political and Legislative Affairs, has been named by the Obama transition team to become White House Political Director when the new administration takes office in January. Gaspard served as the political director of the Obama-Biden campaign. Read More » |
1199 Upstate NY Nursing Home Workers Celebrate Successful 2008Nov. 22, 2008Nearly 100 Bargaining Committee members and Union leaders from 1199SEIU nursing homes across Western New York met last week to celebrate the success of the 2008 contract campaign. Read More » |
Buffalo, NY: Major Kaleida Employee Groups Reject Managements Contract OfferNov. 22, 2008Employees in seven bargaining units in the Kaleida Health System decisively rejected a management contract offer in balloting conducted last Wednesday by 1199SEIU. Members of two smaller units approved the offer. Employees in the units rejecting the offer total 86 percent the union's membership at the facilities. Each group voted separately on the contract, with the employee negotiating committee members urging rejection. Read More » |
1199ers Lobby Albany Against Putting Patients At Risk With Short-Sighted Budget CutsNov. 20, 2008Prompted by New York Governor David Paterson’s sounding the alarm on the state’s budget deficit, more than 150 members of 1199SEIU, together with the Healthcare Education Project, traveled to Albany to speak with their elected officials. In meetings at the Legislative Office Building and in the Capitol, they discussed the consequences of cutting another $572 million from the already struggling healthcare industry. They came with a clear message to the legislature--“shared responsibility.” Read More » |
Lawrence Hospital Workers Finally Get Their ContractNov. 18, 2008After more than a year of on and off negotiations, the 1199SEIU members at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, NY finally have a second contract. Read More » |
Upstate New York 1199ers Help Secure Congressional Support For ObamaNov. 14, 2008“President-elect Obama is going to need Congressional support to get us back on track after eight years of a government that ignored the needs of working people,” said Gail Cook, an LPN from New York’s Capital Region. Read More » |
1199SEIU Members Fight For Retirement Security At Western New York's Largest Health SystemNov. 14, 2008Three thousand 1199SEIU members at Buffalo's Kaleida Health System have been fighting for a fair settlement since last spring when their contracts expired. The issue - retirement security. The Kaleida workers are covered by four different pension plans. None of them provides benefits close to those provided by the 1199SEIU Healthcare Employees Pension Fund. Read More » |
Yes, We Did!Nov. 13, 2008Throughout the various divisions of 1199SEIU, members are embracing, congratulating one another and exchanging “war stories” about their work in battleground states – and in their home districts – in the historic Barack Obama victory. Read More » |
