1199 was founded in 1932 as a New York City drugstore workers’ union. Today’s 1199SEIU represents the spectrum of healthcare professions in five states and the District of Columbia. What remains true, though, is that the vast concentration of 1199’s membership is centered in New York City and its suburbs; the union represents more than 250,000 workers in the region. Tens of thousands of 1199SEIU hospital-based members work throughout the mega-health systems that include Mount Sinai, NYU Langone, Presbyterian, Northwell Health (formerly Northshore LIJ), andMontefiore. These include hospitals, ambulatory care centers, off-site provider-based clinics, and other settings. The union represents 100,000 more members who work in nursing homes and home care settings.
May 20, 2024
The 1199SEIU Training and Employment Funds (TEF) is offering a review course this Summer 2024 for Pharmacy Technicians* who want to obtain…
Mar 21, 2024
Get ready to join the largest statewide march of healthcare workers in a generation.
Apr 3, 2023
Healthcare workers in cities and towns across New York will bang on pots and pans in front of their institutions and hold rallies to raise…
Mar 20, 2023
Albany, NY: Thousands of caregivers, still reeling from three years of the pandemic, will descend on the Capitol to call on Gov. Hochul and…
Mar 6, 2023
For three decades the 1199SEIU Child Care Funds and the Child Care Corporation have provided quality services to over 400,000 childrenand…
Feb 22, 2023
There’s an old saying that if you want the rich to work harder, you pay them more. If you want the poor to work harder, you pay them less.
Jan 9, 2023
Today, 1199SEIU healthcare workers of every stripe—in hospitals and nursing homes, home care, pharmacies, community health clinics and every…
Jan 6, 2023
“We congratulate NYSNA for the groundbreaking tentative agreements they have achieved at many New York hospitals, and we call on the holdout…
Jan 3, 2023
Just one month after marking National Physician Assistants week, a group of 345 Physician Assistants (PAs) at Montefiore Medical Center’s…
Oct 15, 2022
By the late 1980s, 1199 had grown into a New York City political powerhouse. But even as far back as the 1930s, the Union could be found on…
Oct 15, 2022
There is no doubt working on the frontlines during the covid pandemic took a terrible toll on 1199ers in the healthcare workforce. Hailed as…
Oct 14, 2022
“I started gathering stories over 20 years ago,” says Tomasina Decrescenzo, a retired 1199 RN operating room nurse at the now closed St.…
Oct 13, 2022
More than 1,000 members at the hospitals owned by Nuvance Health signed a letter to the Nuvance Board of Directors at Vassar Brothers…
Oct 11, 2022
The mainstream media has downplayed one of the biggest stories of the year. I’m referring to the tens of thousands of workers organizing…
Oct 11, 2022
If ever there were a time to stand up for our families and our communities, this is it. It is less than two years since we went all out to…
Sep 29, 2022
Do you have federal student loans or know someone who does? Do you/they work for a not-for-profit healthcare institution or other non-profit…
Sep 5, 2022
Rite Aid members have ratified another three-year contract after a tough round of negotiations which includes annual three percent raises…
Sep 1, 2022
No matter how young or old we are, we Americans have grown up hearing quite a few myths about our democracy that very often proved to be…
Jun 24, 2022
“As a union of healthcare workers, we recognize that the right to an abortion is fundamental to reproductive health, overall health, and…
Jun 24, 2022
Weeks before his death in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed 1199’s Salute to Freedom Celebration at which he praised the Union for…
