On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 hundreds of SEIU 1199 members, legislators, and the local community formed a picket line of several hundred in front of Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Clark, NJ – Big money’s assault on essential nursing home workers continues across the Metropolitan Area this week, even as Covid-19 infection rates spike once more around the country. Nursing
New York, NY – Struggling longterm caregivers at nine for-profit nursing homes throughout the state plan on launching one-day strikes on July 12 and 13. The Licensed Practical Nurses, Certified
NEW YORK, N.Y.—City Councilmember Christopher Marte (D-Manhattan) has introduced a bill to outlaw 24-hour shifts for home health-care aides, prohibiting them from having to work more than 12-hours-a-day except in
ALBANY, N.Y.—Less than two months after New York’s minimum-staffing requirements for nursing homes went into effect, a trade group has demanded that state courts block them. LeadingAge NY, a trade
NEW YORK, N.Y.— New York State’s system of paying home health attendants who do 24-hour shifts has wage theft built in — and because the money primarily comes from Medicaid,
WASHINGTON—“This is nationwide,” says Julie Martinez, a licensed practical nurse in a Buffalo-area nursing home. “There is short-staffing everywhere. They could never pay us as health-care workers what we deserve,
NEW YORK, N.Y.—State Attorney General Letitia James joined 1199SEIU March 21 to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to stop delaying the state’s new minimum staffing standards for nursing homes. “Laws that
LEWISTON, N.Y.— Demanding better pay and improved staffing, more than 150 workers at a nursing home near Buffalo began a 24-hour strike March 9. “We can’t get anyone to come
NEW YORK, N.Y—A group organizing home health-care workers denounced the arbitrated settlement in which 1199SEIU will receive $30 million to reimburse workers who put in 24-hour shifts but got paid
