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SI Live: More than 260 healthcare workers on Staten Island picket for better benefits (with photos & video)
UPDATE 2:15 p.m: Singing “hands in the air for quality care,” low-wage workers from Carmel Richmond Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center managed to get the attention of many motorists driving down Old Town Road in Dongan Hills on Wednesday as part of a city-wide picket for better benefits.
SI Live: Live Coverage: More than 1,500 healthcare workers on Staten Island picket for better benefits (with photos & video)
A city-wide rally for quality care and better benefits drew more than 1,500 low-wage healthcare workers to picket lines on Staten Island on Wednesday.
City-wide there were “tens of thousands” who joined picket lines at hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and other facilities, said Erin Malone, senior coordinator for member communications at 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.
WNYC: Healthcare Workers Picket for Better Benefits
With about a month left before their labor contract expires, thousands of 1199 SEIU healthcare workers rallied outside hospitals across the city Wednesday.
Members want to see their free health coverage continue under any new contract. It’s been a major sticking point in negotiations and union representatives said they have already sacrificed enough.
SI Live: Nurses and caregivers will picket at Staten Island hospitals on Wednesday
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Thousands of nurses and caregivers — including many at Staten Island University Hospital and Richmond University Medical Center — will be holding protests for quality care and good jobs at over 100 facilities throughout the New York City area.
SI Live: Nurses and caregivers will picket at Staten Island hospitals on Wednesday
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Thousands of nurses and caregivers — including many at Staten Island University Hospital and Richmond University Medical Center — will be holding protests for quality care and good jobs at over 100 facilities throughout the New York City area.
The “informational picket lines” at hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and other facilities mark the launch of an effort to educate patients and the public about healthcare CEOs “who are severely threatening the quality of healthcare services and jobs for New Yorkers,” said 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, which represents over 250,000 healthcare workers in New York State, and more than 400,000 total members throughout the East Coast, in a written statement.
Becker’s: Union Nurses to Picket 100+ NYC Facilities Wednesday
Thousands of nurses and caregivers, members of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, plan to picket at more than 100 healthcare facilities in the New York City area Wednesday.
The healthcare union is in the midst of contract negotiations with the League of Voluntary Hospitals and Homes, an employer group that represents 109 private hospitals, nursing homes and other clinics in the area that acts as the bargaining agents in labor contracts.