1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, New York City, United States
About 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East United States
Over 80 years on the frontlines for quality care, good jobs & social justice, Local 1199 was founded in 1932 by Leon Davis and a group of New York City pharmacy workers who were pioneers in the struggle for living wages and against racial segregation during the 1930s. The mostly white and Jewish union of pharmacists led a groundbreaking organizing effort among the largely Black workforce of the City’s pharmacies’ sodamen.
1199 members have always seen their union as part of a larger social justice movement, and in order to build the greatest voice, they knew they needed to help other healthcare workers unite. An injury to one is an injury to all.
In the late 1950s, during the first flush of the Civil Rights Movement, 1199 launched large-scale organizing drives at New York City’s Voluntary Hospitals i, mobilizing a workforce that was a majority of African-American and Latino women. Many of these workers were paid as little as $32 a week for a 48-hour week and were trapped in poverty. With an unprecedented 46-day strike in seven of the city’s most prestigious hospitals—including Montefiore, Mt. Sinai and Maimonides hospitals— they won 1199 recognition. .
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