FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
@1199SEIU
IN HOUSE STAFF MAKE LABOR HISTORY, WIN OUR STAFF UNION @ NATION'S LARGEST HEALTHCARE UNION BY 82.3%.
MLK called us the "authentic conscience of the labor movement."
On Friday, we upheld that legacy.
#UnionsForAll
starts with
#ThisUnion
BREAKING:
@1199SEIU
IN HOUSE STAFF MAKE LABOR HISTORY, WIN OUR STAFF UNION @ NATION'S LARGEST HEALTHCARE UNION BY 82.3%.
MLK called us the "authentic conscience of the labor movement."
Today, we upheld that legacy.
#UnionsForAll
starts with
#ThisUnion
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
@1199SEIU
IN HOUSE STAFF MAKE LABOR HISTORY, WIN OUR STAFF UNION @ NATION'S LARGEST HEALTHCARE UNION BY 82.3%.
MLK called us the "authentic conscience of the labor movement."
Today, we upheld that legacy.
#UnionsForAll
starts with
#ThisUnion
Today, the
@NLRB
officially certified our staff union📝
The essential staff who make
@1199SEIU
run for our members have now gained collective bargaining rights for ourselves, as
@WBNG32035
members, and are ready to negotiate our first, historic contract.
Vibes in the office 💯
CERTIFIED*
*This is our coworker Donald who
@1199SEIU
Management Fired for union organizing, who will get his job back and join us at the bargaining table shortly.
#UnionsForAll
starts with
#ThisUnion
🚨UPDATE🚨
Today, we’ve heard troubling reports that
@1199SEIU
upper management is:
-refusing to accept the results of our staff union election (complete blowout)
-claiming falsely that staff are “1199 members”
Your employer can’t be your bargaining agent. That’s the law!
UPDATE: Although we urged
@1199Prez
@1199SEIU
to voluntarily recognize our staff union, Leadership refused to live our union values and has forced a union election.
We, a supermajority of 1199SEIU-UHWE In House Staff from Florida to New York are united and ready to VOTE YES!
BREAKING:
@1199SEIU
leadership FIRED our colleague & staff union organizing committee member Donald Hemmings, days ahead of our union election to join
@WBNG32035
BE THERE📢📢📢
ULP PICKET THURSDAY, 498 7th AVENUE, NYC, 12-1PM.
WE ARE ALL DONALD. WE ARE ALL VOTING YES.
We,
@1199SEIU
In House Staff, are ORGANIZED. UNITED. UNSTOPPABLE!
We are sending out our NLRB mail ballots with LIGHTNING speed, sticking together, and voting YES to win our staff union with
@WBNG32035
#UnionsForAll
starts with
#ThisUnion
Solidarity with National Education Association staff LOCKED OUT by
@NEAToday
in negotiations w
@NEAStaffUnion
Unions should never reach for the tactics used by the worst union-busting employers.
Pres
@BeckyPringle
: the movement says end the lockout now, negotiate in good faith!
Today we were supposed to return to work after the conclusion of our 3-day Unfair Labor Practice strike. We were looking forward to getting back to our jobs and to supporting NEA members.
BREAKING: "Despite working for a union, 1199SEIU staffers are not protected by a collective bargaining contract that would otherwise give them the ability to contest their firing through a grievance procedure."
Now, we're changing that.✊
@Documentedny
BREAKING: Today, non-staffers stood outside our NYC HQ handing out anti-union flyers.
Coworkers received anonymous anti-union mailers at home addresses.
We can only conclude:
@1199SEIU
Management is coordinating or at least condoning this effort to dissuade us from voting YES.
🚨JOIN OUR ULP PICKET🚨
THURSDAY, 12-1PM, 498 7th Ave, NYC
To demand our colleague Donald be reinstated after he, an active staff union organizing committee member, was fired by
@1199SEIU
days ahead of our election.
To uphold our legacy as the conscience of the labor movement.
BREAKING:
@1199SEIU
leadership FIRED our colleague & staff union organizing committee member Donald Hemmings, days ahead of our union election to join
@WBNG32035
BE THERE📢📢📢
ULP PICKET THURSDAY, 498 7th AVENUE, NYC, 12-1PM.
WE ARE ALL DONALD. WE ARE ALL VOTING YES.
UPDATE:
Today, we sent our first negotiations information request to
@1199SEIU
Management!
Our Organizing Committee is feeling PROUD.
Now, the clock is ticking for Mgmt to provide the info our Staff Union Negotiations Committee will need to draft our 1st contract proposals📝💪
Ballots are hitting mailboxes and
@1199SEIU
In House Staff are VOTING YES!!! 📨📨📨📨
Here's why we are joining together for a voice and the protection of a contract within our workplace, joining union staffers like ourselves united in
@WBNG32035
.
#1U
#UnionsForAll
The
@1199seiu
In House Staff United Guild honors the holiday of Juneteenth, saluting the hundreds of years of heroic Black organizers who have made and our union, and our very nation, possible. Until we are all free, solidarity forever.
#1u
#BlackLivesMatter
#UnionsForAll
Let's make sure our
@32BJSEIU
peers are seen, heard, and protected as they form their
@32BJStaffUnion
Please sign/share to urge 32BJ Leadership live our
@SEIU
union values: voluntarily recognize your employees' union & begin good-faith negotiations!
Less than 3 months since we won our staff union with
@WBNG32035
our Bargaining Committee has demanded DATES for our negotiations.
We proudly look forward to negotiating a strong, fair & equitable 1st contract for ourselves: the union staff who make
@1199SEIU
run for our members.
TODAY: We filed a 3rd ULP against
@1199SEIU
after Management unilaterally changed our policy around Paid Time Off & Attendance.
Management made this retaliatory decision DURING our election, BEFORE we sit down to negotiate.
1199 In House Staff are standing up. Stand with us.
👊UPDATE: SOLIDARITY IS WORKING👊
Our coworker & active staff union organizing committee member Donald, fired by
@1199SEIU
on Friday, HAS YET TO RECEIVE HIS OFFICIAL TERMINATION LETTER.
Management is hesitating...LET'S KEEP IT UP & GET OUR COWORKER BACK!
See you tomorrow:
UPDATE: Our co-workers are receiving anonymous calls to their personal & work phone numbers, asking us to "Vote No."
Some callers are even impersonating reporters, to fish for information about our staff union effort.
@1199SEIU
Management is aggressively supporting an
Here’s Donald, our colleague, IHSU Organizing Committee member, and fiercely committed educator beloved by members across
@1199SEIU
.
When we win our staff union and get your job back, we cannot wait to hear your powerful voice in our first contract negotiations.
Meet our coworker, Donald Hemmings, Education Coordinator, sharing how forming our staff union can help us empower
@1199SEIU
members to win.
By forming our staff union, we are charting a better, stronger future for ourselves and our employer, 1199.
👊UPDATE: SOLIDARITY IS WORKING👊
Our coworker & active staff union organizing committee member Donald, fired by
@1199SEIU
on Friday, HAS YET TO RECEIVE HIS OFFICIAL TERMINATION LETTER.
Management is hesitating...LET'S KEEP IT UP & GET OUR COWORKER BACK!
See you tomorrow:
As we prepare to vote YES to win our staff union,
@1199SEIU
leadership is aggressively supporting an anti-union campaign full of lies and deceit to intimidate our co-workers into voting no.
We WILL stand up for ourselves and our legacy as the conscience of the labor movement!
"We are doing what we tell our members to do: come together, form our union, and demand that our voices be heard.”
That's why we are voting YES to form our 1199 In House Staff Union with
@WBNG32035
!
Meet our co-worker, Farah Khimji, Researcher, New Organizing
@1199SEIU
:
Today we, 1199 In House Staff, asked
@1199SEIU
leadership to live our union values, listen to the voices of a
#supermajority
of staff and voluntarily recognize our union! We’re organizing our workplace to make sure that everyone who works at 1199 feels represented and empowered.
Today, we stood up for each other as coworkers by filing our ULP on
@1199SEIU
.
As we form our staff union, we will ensure respect for the law and our union values from
@1199prez
and 1199 Management.
When we win our voice, we will strengthen our rights in our first contract.
"Forming our staff union empowers me, empowers all of us, to live the true values of
@1199SEIU
. Vote YES!"
Meet our coworker, Jonathan Escobar, MIS (IT), sharing why a supermajority of 1199 In House Staff from Florida to New York are standing together to win our voice.
I’m proud to stand with
@1199ihsu
unionizing with
@WBNG32035
✊
Every worker deserves respect. Every worker deserves a contract. Every worker needs a union.
We picketed today because
@1199SEIU
fired our colleague Donald, DAYS ahead of our NLRB election.
Union-busting like that must be met forcefully. It has no place in our workplace, nor our movement.
We will get our colleague reinstated. We will win our staff union
@WBNG32035
.
👊UPDATE: SOLIDARITY IS WORKING👊
Our coworker & active staff union organizing committee member Donald, fired by
@1199SEIU
on Friday, HAS YET TO RECEIVE HIS OFFICIAL TERMINATION LETTER.
Management is hesitating...LET'S KEEP IT UP & GET OUR COWORKER BACK!
See you tomorrow:
The truth is: as staff
@1199SEIU
, we do not have a contract to protect our jobs and benefits, nor collective bargaining rights for a say in the workplace decisions that affect us, unlike our members.
All workers deserve a voice, including ourselves!
📢📢ULP PICKET TOMORROW📢📢
Why?
@1199SEIU
leadership FIRED our colleague and staff union organizing committee member Donald, DAYS before our union election to join
@WBNG32035
.
Join 1199 staff to demand justice and uphold our legacy as the conscience of the labor movement.
went through challenge ballots and deciding who will be counted (both parties must agree). now opening yellow envelopes of all regular ballots and putting them in a box for anonymity
now they’re opening the blue anonymous envelopes and putting the ballots in the box. how do these guys not get paper cuts?! shout out to govt workers 🫶🏽
🚨Support us by calling on
@1199SEIU
leadership to🚨:
1. Stop union-busting
2. Recognize our In House Staff union w
@WBNG32035
3. Immediately begin good-faith negotiations
(Contact info above)
And please sign!
"It's about helping the members as well as helping ourselves...We deserve the same rights our members have. If we're going to fight for our members to have contracts every day, why shouldn't we have a contract?"
That's right! 🙌
@1199SEIU
@1199Prez
NEW:
@1199SEIU
staffers and
@gaufre
are accusing Local 1199 of attempting to bust the staffers' union.
Staff are forming a union with
@1199ihsu
and one member of the organizing committee was fired last week. Anti-union flyers have also been passed out.
The truth is: as staff
@1199SEIU
, we do not have a contract to protect our benefits, nor collective bargaining rights for a say in the workplace decisions that affect us, unlike our members.
All workers deserve a voice, including ourselves.
@1199SEIU
@1199Prez
Please support us! Email:
-
@1199Prez
George Gresham, georgeg
@1199
.org
-
@1199SEIU
Secretary Treasurer Milly Silva, milly.silva
@1199
.org
Call on them to:
1) Stop union-busting us
2) Recognize our staff union with
@WBNG32035
3) Immediately begin good-faith negotiations
We are forming our staff union with
@WBNG32035
for these basic rights, respect, and a voice—living our
@1199SEIU
mission and empowering ourselves to better serve our members every day.
#WEFILED
! 1199 In House Staff filed to form our first-ever staff union with
@WBNG32035
! You can support our historic effort to win a voice in our own workplace by calling on our 1199 leaders
@1199Prez
to live our union values & voluntarily recognize our staff union
#UnionsForAll
Being a union member while working for a union is the greatest privilege. Everyday I get to advance the cause of labor while knowing that my co-workers and I have each others' backs!
We’re still waiting on
@1199Prez
and
@1199SEIU
leadership to show us when they say
#UnionsForAll
, they really mean it.
Your staff are saying it, members are saying it, our movement is saying it:
VOLUNTARY RECOGNITION NOW!
🚨Support us by calling on
@1199SEIU
leadership to🚨:
1. Stop union-busting
2. Recognize our In House Staff Union w
@WBNG32035
3. Immediately begin good-faith negotiations
(Contact info above)
And please sign!
What is going on?
@1199SEIU
In House Staff are forming our staff union with
@WBNG32035
to protect our benefits and jobs, gain a voice in decision-making in our workplace, and build a better future for ourselves and 1199 employees after us.
@1199SEIU
@1199Prez
What's going on?
@1199SEIU
leaders &
@1199Prez
are allowing union-busters to spread anti-union literature in our offices. Coworkers are receiving threatening, anonymous calls to poll our staff union support.
@1199SEIU
Management STILL union-busting us, even after our ballots are out!!
But at this point, In House Staff are unbreakable.
Here's the text our coworkers got from
@1199Prez
's retired Executive Assistant today, Iris Roman, pretending to be a current staff member...
@1199SEIU
@1199Prez
Here are some pics of the anti-union literature, condoned by
@1199SEIU
leadership, that our coworkers have been subjected to as we try to form our staff union with
@WBNG32035
and focus on our mission: serving our 1199 members:
The truth is: as staff
@1199SEIU
, we do not have a contract to protect our benefits and jobs, nor collective bargaining rights for a say in the workplace decisions that affects us, unlike our members.
All workers deserve a voice, including ourselves.
@1199SEIU
Leadership & our
@1199Prez
are aggressively supporting an anti-union campaign full of lies and deceit to intimidate us, their staff, into voting no.
But we know: By empowering and protecting ourselves, we will better serve our members and our mission of
#UnionsForAll
Please support us!
Email:
-
@1199Prez
George Gresham, georgeg
@1199
.org
-
@1199SEIU
Secretary Treasurer Milly Silva, milly.silva
@1199
.org
Call on them to:
1) Stop union-busting us
2) Recognize our staff union with
@WBNG32035
3) Immediately begin good-faith negotiations
@1199SEIU
@1199Prez
What's going on?
@1199SEIU
leaders &
@1199Prez
are allowing union-busters to spread anti-union literature in our offices. Coworkers are receiving threatening, anonymous calls to poll our staff union support.
@UnionBrian
Thank you, Brian. We really hope more visibility like this will persuade 1199 leadership to stop the anti-union campaign they're actively condoning, so we, 1199 in-house staff, can more openly organize, free from intimidating threats & misinformation.
@NeilAnAlien
Hey Neil, thank you for the solidarity! We are so excited to model the kind of workplace we want to empower our
@1199SEIU
members to build, when we win our 1199 In House Staff union with
@WBNG32035
.
We are forming our staff union with
@WBNG32035
for these basic rights, respect, and a voice—living our
@1199SEIU
mission and empowering ourselves to better serve our members every day.
It's been ~9 months since we unionized, and we're FED UP😤with the pace of negotiations. Will you donate to our community's hardship fund so we can still pay the bills while taking action to win a fair contract?
#TabletopSolidarity
@1199SEIU
@1199Prez
Here are some pics of the anti-union literature, condoned by
@1199SEIU
leadership, that our coworkers have been subjected to as we try to form our staff union with
@WBNG32035
and focus on our mission: serving our 1199 members:
@gaufre
Thank you, we really hope more visibility like this will persuade
@1199SEIU
leadership to stop the anti-union campaign they're actively condoning so we, 1199 In House Staff, can more openly organize, free from threatening misinformation.
And now, we’re getting ready to negotiate a strong, fair, and equitable first contract that respects the staff who make
@1199SEIU
run smoothly for our members 🙌🏼
#UnionsForAll
starts at home.
Despite Union's 'Aggressive Union-Busting Campaign,' Overwhelming Majority of Union Staff Vote To Unionize
Calling it a “labor history milestone,” the in-house staff of a major healthcare union has voted in favor of unionization, defying intense opposition from their union
THRILLED by the wave of support for
@1199SEIU
In House Staff, from 1199 members to our union siblings.
By living our values at home, we'll be stronger, more informed advocates for our members & build a stronger labor movement.
If u agree, please sign!