1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East

United States healthcare union 1199SEIU 1199 Logo-Purple-QCGJ.jpg SEIU 450,000 President Yvonne Armstrong 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East 1932 New York, New York Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, D.C., Florida Secretary-Treasurer Veronica Turner-Biggs Leon J. Davis, founderDoris TurnerYoung Cynthia A. Soul Power: Culture, Radicalism, and the Making of a U.S. Third World Left 1 November 2006 Duke University Press 978-0-8223-8861-6 66 https://books.google.com/books?id=_8f2YBX97OMC&pg=PA66 enDennis Rivera www.1199seiu.org 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East is a healthcare union in the United States, with a membership of 400,000, including retirees. It is a local union within the Service Employees International Union. It is a former local of 1199: The National Health Care Workers' Union. History The 1199 Union traces its origins to women of color employed at drug stores and volunteer hospitals in New York City, who worked for relatively low wages.Botein Hilary Visions of community: post‐war housing projects of Local 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, and Local 1199, Hospital Workers Union Planning Perspectives 24 2 2009 0266-5433 10.1080/02665430902734293 187 Influence Patrick Gaspard, a former executive vice president for politics and legislation at the union, was the political director for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.Haitian American labor leader Patrick Gaspard in key job with Barack Obama New York Daily News June 27, 2008 Jarred McAllister http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/06/28/2008-06-28_haitian_american_labor_leader_patrick_ga.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090316131905/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/06/28/2008-06-28_haitian_american_labor_leader_patrick_ga.html March 16, 2009 dead 2009-08-07 Gaspard was appointed White House Political Director during Obama's first term in office.http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/52020/ Hope for O Gig? Gaspard's Your Guy New York 2009-08-12 https://web.archive.org/web/20090213004612/http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/52020/ February 13, 2009 Geoffrey Gray Geoffrey Gray November 9, 2008 live In 2016, 1199SEIU's president George Gresham was credited by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for helping secure the passage of the $15 minimum wage in New York State.http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/04/live_coverage_cuomo_signs_bill_raising_new_yorks_minimum_wage_to_15.html Live coverage: Cuomo signs bill raising New York's minimum wage to $15 syracuse.com 2016-04-08 Spending A 2025 Politico investigation found multiple instances of questionable union expenditures used for the personal benefit of Gresham, his family members, and political allies. Under Gresham, 1199SEIU paid for flights to South Africa, concerts during Gresham's family reunions in a small Virginia town, lavish parties with celebrities, de facto personal chauffeurs for Gresham, salaries and penthouse suites for a nonprofit seeking to "eliminate racial inequities in the criminal justice system", and medical bills for Jesse Jackson. Politico also found discrepancies between recorded expenditures and other documents.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/george-gresham-1199-seiu-heathcare-union-00277781 ‘An unlimited piggy bank:’ Inside a powerful union’s lavish spending Politico 8 April 2025 1199SEIU said that they complied with federal laws requiring management of union funds "solely for the benefit of the union" and proper authorization and disclosure of all expenditures.https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/george-gresham-1199-seiu-heathcare-union-00277781 ‘An unlimited piggy bank:’ Inside a powerful union’s lavish spending Politico 8 April 2025 See also List of unions designated 1199 Leon J. Davis SEIU References Fink Leon Leon Fink (historian) Greenberg, Brian 1989 0-252-06047-4 Upheaval in the Quiet Zone https://archive.org/details/upheavalinquietz00fink registration University of Illinois Press (Information on the early history of 1199.) Fink Leon Leon Fink (historian) Greenberg, Brian 2009 978-0-252-07605-3 2nd, paperback Upheaval in the Quiet Zone University of Illinois Press https://books.google.com/books?id=sM2JN7SQ3TAC&q=leon+fink+upheaval+in+the+quiet+zone External links http://www.1199seiu.org/ Category:Service Employees International Union