The American healthcare system is broken—46 million (including 8.5 million children) have no health coverage, at least as many are underinsured, the numbers are growing and care is increasingly becoming out of reach. » Read More
Defending Quality Healthcare Means Defending Medicaid and Medicare
As healthcare costs continue to rise, more must be done to protect healthcare for working families. Decreasing healthcare funding over time is not the solution. » Read More
Quality Care for Our Patients
Providing quality healthcare begins with taking care of those who deliver healthcare services. It begins with a living wage, comprehensive benefits, a safe work environment, professional respect and dignity. » Read More
Employer Responsibility
In the absence of national health insurance, and in an age where giant corporations increasingly refuse to provide affordable healthcare coverage to their employees, we must defend and promote healthcare as a basic right. » Read More
Living Wage Laws
To combat growing economic inequality and the inadequacy of low wage jobs for working families, 1199SEIU has been part of a broad coalition that supports living wage laws. » Read More
Justice for Immigrants
Immigrant workers are due the same protection and dignity under the law that citizen workers receive. Immigrants work hard, pay taxes, and raise families alongside U.S.-born Americans. Their basic civil rights and liberties should be upheld. » Read More
Caring About Jobs and Families
In the absence of paid medical leave, working families should not have to choose between economic security and providing vital care for ill children, spouses, domestic partners or elderly parents. » Read More
Freedom to Unionize
Unions have been and continue to be an integral part of the fabric of America, and particularly, in the healthcare community. » Read More
