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Since 2000, over 90,000 healthcare workers have joined 1199SEIU and have won raises, better benefits, retirement security, job protections, no-cost education opportunities and a voice in staffing and patient care. 1199SEIU is the fastest-growing, most effective union for healthcare workers in America. Read more

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    Aug232011

    Hot Fun in the Summer Time! More than 1,000 New Members Join 1199SEIU

    The summer of 2011 has been an exciting one for 1199SEIU with more than 1,000 new nursing home workers, homecare workers and hospital workers joining the ranks of the fastest growing healthcare union in America!

    Kicking off in May, 30 workers at Niagra Falls Medical Center in Upstate voted to join 1199SEIU to gain dignity and respect at work. Workers at Medford nursing home in Long Island and the Springs Nursing and Rehab Centre also voted to unite with 1199 this July.

    Our biggest victory this summer welcomed more than 900 New York City homecare workers voted overwhelmingly to join 1199 after an exciting campaign that will finally give home health aides and other homecare workers throughout downstate New York a real voice in issues including patient care, no-cost educational opportunities, higher wages and more.

    Click here to read the full story about our newest NY Healthcare Workers!

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