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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, 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]
Service Employees International Union (2 C, 36 P) Pages in category "Healthcare trade unions in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The endorsement from 1199 SEIU, which represents healthcare workers and is the largest union in the city, is a huge stamp of approval for Wiley and will most certainly translate into the union ...
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
Since 1199 was a "left-led" union, its leadership was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1948 for Communist "infiltration". 1199 was a tiny local at the time, however, and during the expulsions of large left-led unions from the CIO in the 1940s, 1199 as a local eventually found shelter under the auspices of the Retail ...
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 health care workers’ union helped push de Blasio into City Hall in 2013, and its endorsement of Rivera signaled that labor was leaning away from the former mayor as he ran for the House seat.