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1199 Healthcare Heroes Unite.

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1199 Healthcare Heroes Unite

About

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored what we’ve known for years – our work is dangerous and essential and the healthcare industry doesn’t always give us the respect we deserve. We deserve a fair contract with good wages, safe working conditions, affordable, comprehensive health benefits and a dignified retirement. Now healthcare workers are standing together to demand what we are owed.

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Our Stories

Lifting up the stories of Healthcare Heroes is essential to securing good wages, safe working conditions, affordable, comprehensive health benefits, and a dignified retirement.

Take a moment to listen to stories submitted by Healthcare Heroes — and then submit your own story here!

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Nikosa Collins

“There were not enough of us to look at the tests and get results to people in the time frame they needed.”
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George Davila

“My colleagues got sick, they were hospitalized, some died. Some are still sick.”
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Jane Gerenscer

“Everyone seems to have recognized our value, except the hospital administration.”
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Stay Informed

News

Here’s a quick glance at our Healthcare Heroes in the News.

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1199SEIU, LEAGUE OF VOLUNTARY HOSPITALS AND HOMES OF NEW YORK REACH THREE-YEAR CONTRACT AGREEMENT

Agreement provides wage increases and recognition pay, protects pensions and benefits for healthcare heroes League, Union agree to add …

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Good Samaritan Heroes take to the Streets to Fight for Pay and Benefits as Top 6 Administrators Take Home a Combined $8,883,322 Annually

On August 26, 2021 Healthcare Workers from Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern NY took to the streets to protest working conditions while …

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Hospital Workers Picket to Demand ‘fair’ Contract, Wages

By News 12 Staff—Hospital workers in both the Bronx and Brooklyn are calling on the League of Voluntary Hospitals and …