health care

  • New York Governor, SEIU 1199 Raise Hackles with Medicaid Deal
    Mark Brenner
    Jan 9 2011 - 9:48am

    New York’s Medicaid redesign will privatize the state's home care network, costing 700 city jobs and tossing 40,000 low-income elderly and disabled into managed care agencies that a union says cut corners. AFSCME says SEIU 1199 OK'd the deal.

  • Nurses Press for Financial Transaction Tax

    Just as the cherry blossoms fell from their trees as summer began in Washington, D.C., the 170,000 registered nurses who are members of National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union, launched their Main Street Contract campaign.

    Six months later, NNU’s campaign is resonating on an international stage and shifting what’s politically possible here at home.

  • New York Nurse Reformers One Step Closer to Power
    Mark Brenner
    Oct 19 2011 - 5:33pm

    Reformers inside the New York State Nurses Association are one step closer to taking power in the 37,000-member union after a federal judge ordered the outgoing leaders to seat the winners of an August election.

  • California Grocery Workers Win Settlement, Wait for Details
    Jenny Brown
    Sep 22 2011 - 12:38pm

    Southern California grocery workers have wrested a tentative agreement from their three profitable employers. The union said the settlement “protects your health care” but did not release details.

  • SEIU: Nursing Home Boss Cheats Workers, Founds 'Institute for Justice'

    Nursing home workers in the Northeast say the owner of their chain cheated them and used the proceeds to fund an institute of justice at New York University.

  • Sugar Workers Bitter over Lockout

    Locked-out sugar beet workers, their families, and supporters turned out in big numbers August 11 to say they want to work—but not on the terms offered by American Crystal Sugar.

    ACS locked out more than 1,300 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco & Grain Millers August 1, two days after they rejected deep concessions by 97 percent.

  • Verizon Cuts Off Strikers’ Health Care, as Service Outages Rise
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 18 2011 - 3:07pm

    Noisy picket lines are turning away customers at Verizon’s wireless stores as the largest strike in the country weathered a rainy second week. Some service was disrupted throughout the Northeast.

  • Verizon Strike: As Billions Roll In, Workers Walk Out
    Mischa Gaus
    Aug 8 2011 - 6:12pm

    At Verizon locations throughout the Northeast, 45,000 workers started walking picket lines Sunday. “We’re on strike for our bargaining rights, just like Wisconsin or Ohio,” said CWA President Larry Cohen.

  • Verizon Showdown Calls for New Strike Tactics

    Telephone workers at Verizon have voted to strike if no agreement is reached this weekend. But would it be wiser to stay on the job and strike selectively over grievances?

  • California Strike Highlights Hospitals' Skewed Priorities
    Mark Brenner
    Jun 24 2011 - 12:24pm

    Workers at a California hospital return to the job today, following the third short strike this year by the National Union of Healthcare Workers. NUHW exposed a deal handing the CEO $5 million while staff was cut.