Sentences with phrase «health care union»

Third, Cuomo officials believe they have the support of 1199 SEIU, the largest health care union in the state and a driving force behind many of the protests and rallies that centered on Brooklyn health care during Cuomo's first term.

«We believe in love and brotherhood and sisterhood, we believe in helping one another and standing up for one another,» Cuomo told a cheering crowd of health care union workers on July 17.

The company had the capital commitments to purchase the facility and pay to lift the deed restrictions, and also said it intended to keep the facility's nearly 200 union jobs, a pledge that helped win the backing of 1199 SEIU, the powerful health care union that maintains close ties to Mayor Bill de Blasio and to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo not only avoided the multimillion - dollar waves of TV ads by public employee unions and hospitals that sunk the last three governors, but he had special interests running ads praising him, after he promised concessions including a «living wage» guarantee for health care union workers and a cap on medical malpractice awards.

The moves come on the heels of news that 1199 SEIU, the largest health care union in the state, has also stopped paying dues to the Working Families Party amid disputes over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2014 re-election and this year's presidential race.

But Spitzer lost this fight when the powerhouse health care union and its hospital association partner overpowered him on the airwaves and the Legislature restored the bulk of the Medicaid cuts he had sought.

Cuomo put health care unions and hospital lobbyists on his Medicaid Redesign panel, decreasing the likelihood of their bashing health spending cuts.

The state's biggest health care union, 1199SEIU, is highlighting what it says is a critical piece of funding, vital to keeping 28 financially troubled hospitals afloat.

Lawmakers began funding dozens of different programs with money from HCRA, paying for worker retraining (which pleased health care unions) and rural health grant programs that were good for residents — and lawmakers — in rural districts.

The same day he appeared with 1199SEIU, the politically influential health care union, to preserve the Affordable Care Act, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's political operation released emails to supporters urging them to «stand up and fight» to protect the law.

The Council of Unions includes the Nova Scotia Council of Health Care Unions, Nova Scotia Council of Nursing Unions, Nova Scotia Council of Health Administrative Professional Unions and the Nova Scotia Council of Health Support Unions.

For the powerful health care union, he threw in measures to drive nonunion home health care agencies out of business.

A unique collaboration between two rival brokerage firms, Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE, allowed the largest health care union in the country to consolidate its office space at 498 Seventh Ave. and eventually longterm lease that Times Square building as well as the development site it owns.

Health care union workers from Interfaith Hospital stood alongside local residents afraid that the facility's closing will turn the area into a «health care desert.»

Jeff should too,» former political director of the health care union 1199 SEIU Kevin Finnegan wrote to the Allure Group executive Joel Landau, in text messages in August of 2014.

The health care union turned Blue State Digital's peer - to - peer advocacy technology — what then - candidate Barack Obama's campaign used to empower volunteers to call Democrats in advance of the 2008 Democratic primary caucuses — into an issues advocacy platform.

The health care union allied with Senate Republicans under former majority leader Joe Bruno's leadership, and frequently gave members of his conference four times as much money as it did to Democrats.

Communications Workers of America Area Director Debora Hayes, who represents 10,000 health care union workers, said ending Obamacare would cut off healthcare for many people and end the jobs of the workers who take care of those patients.

Montefiore, the Bronx's largest health system, and 1199SEIU, the state's largest health care union, filled an auditorium with several hundred executives, employees and union members.Cuomo, who took

The Post takes Schneiderman to task for his support from some of the Democratic stalwarts it loves to hate: The Rev. Al Sharpton, George Soros, health care unions and the Working Families Party (although I don't believe the labor - backed party has yet formally moved to put the senator on its line, it is expected to do so).

The endorsements came during an hour - long event Wednesday afternoon at the Albany office of 1199 SEIU, the powerful health care union.

The source said de Blasio has privately told members of the Working Families Party that he was particularly moved to get involved in flipping the Senate after learning that the leadership of health care union 1199 SEIU, which in the past has supported select Senate Republicans, is part of the effort.

Perhaps equally important, if not as consequential for health care reform, is how he and the nascent Cuomo administration ended decades of war among the governor's office, the hospitals and 1199SEIU, the state's largest health care union.

Cuomo, who hopes to win by a crushing margin against his little - known opponent, is leaning on a get - out - the - vote operation built around SEIU 1199, the health care union, and the Hotel Trades Council.

The ad is paid for by the health care union 1199SEIU and the Greater New York Hospital Association.

The Times Union recently reported that the powerful health care union 1199 - SEIU plans to back Senate Republicans, although Gianaris said he had not heard that from the union.

Mount Sinai promised to keep all 4,000 union jobs and won the support of 1199 SEIU, the state's largest health care union.

The state's largest health care union, 1199SEIU, the only major health care union not to send supportive memos to legislators in favor of this bill, might object to any significant cost shifts, as many of its members are employed by hospitals that would lose money.

Put off for now are the angry denunciations and millions of dollars of advertisements, chiefly from hospitals and a health care union, that have traditionally begun haunting governors in early February.

But that plan could also put the state at odds with de Blasio, health care unions and community groups who have fought to keep LICH and Interfaith running as full service hospitals.

E.I.U., the health care union.

The donors, topped by hedge funder Stanley Druckenmiller, the Trial Lawyers Association and the health care union 1199SEIU, combined to contribute $ 10 million, according to a POLITICO New York analysis of state Board of Elections records.

But the younger Espada was beaten by Annabel Palma, a health care union organizer who had never before run for political office.

Litwin was followed on the list of top donors by the health care union 1199 SEIU, hedge fund manager James Simons, New York State United Teachers (which also managed an independent expenditure committee that spent millions of dollars on Senate races) and the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.

While the health care union's spending on lobbying has decreased since the years in which it regularly spent millions buying advertisements opposing previous governors» budgets, it remains one of the state's largest campaign contributors.

Today, one health care union is running a pro-Cuomo ad after getting a «living wage» provision for raises for its members as part of Cuomo's Medicaid overhaul.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the health care union 1199 SEIU endorsed Dorancy.

During a Tuesday press conference with hospital executives and health care unions, the governor lashed out, asserting that the $ 2.3 billion shift envisioned by Collins and Faso would amount to a «cut» to Medicaid for New Yorkers — including 100,000 and 150,000 people in their respective districts.

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