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1199: The National Health Care Workers' Union was an American labor union founded as the Drug, Hospital, and Health Care Employees Union-District 1199 by Leon J. Davis for pharmacists in New York City in 1932. The union organized all workers in drug stores on an industrial basis, including pharmacists, clerks, and soda jerks. The union led ...
1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East is a healthcare union in the United States, with a membership of 400,000, including retirees. It is a local union within the Service Employees International Union. It is a former local of 1199: The National Health Care Workers' Union.
1199SEIU, the largest healthcare worker labor union in the United States. [1] SEIU Local 1199E which merged with SEIU Local 1998 to form 1199SEIU Maryland/DC Division. [2] SEIU Local 1199NE, the New England branch of the original Local 1199. [3] SEIU Local 1199NW, the Washington State branch of the original Local 1199. [3]
Workers represented by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW held an informational picket Wednesday (Oct. 23) outside St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma over contract talks that have continued for more than a year.
The SEIU District 1199 New England is a local union of the Service Employees International Union in the United States. As of September 2022, it represents over nearly 24,000 health care workers in the New England area, specifically in the states of Connecticut and Rhode Island. The union also acts on behalf of many porters, clerks, and ...
Public school teachers, RNs, professional, technical and non-professional health care workers. 2022: AFT: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) 1891 820,000 Electrical manufacturing workers; electric utility workers. 2012: IBEW: Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) 1903 669,772
Local 1199 peaked at some 150,000 members in the late 1970s. It was early among unions to establish education and training for members, healthcare and housing for members' families, and scholarships and camps for members' children. [2] Leon J. Davis was instrumental to securing funding for the 1199 Plaza, a massive 1199 Union housing project. [6]
The 1199 Plaza traces its roots to organizing led by the 1199 union, a hospital worker's union that consisted primarily of women of color. [6] Housing was a top priority for 1199 union members, who wanted to integrate in to an existing community rather than to develop exclusionary housing for union members only. [6]