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We launched a new member portal and began sign up to electronic membership cards on Monday, May 8th, 2023!  It has NOT YET been one month since we have asked each of the OVER 6,400 nurses, healthcare professionals, and attending physicians to recommit to SEIU 1991 in order to protect 35 years of union contractsContinue reading “Recommitment Success! Thank You SEIU 1991 – Less Than Halfway To Go!”

Congratulations to our very credible frontline Nurses, Social Workers, CRNAs, Med Techs and Clinical Psychologists, who shared the challenges being faced each day and night in their patient care units at Jackson. Your colleagues expressed to management at the bargaining table on Tuesday, the importance of SAFE STAFFING, and the equally important need to retainContinue reading “Our Experienced Caregivers Spoke and Management Listened!”

On behalf of management, Julie Staub, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer said, “We stand by the 8% (wage increase), it’s final.” Meanwhile the COLA in Miami-Dade County is 10.1% and the research many of you did revealed staff nurses need a 21% market adjustment. The 12% wage adjustment proposal should be the leastContinue reading “Management Refuses to Acknowledge “Experience Matters.””

As healthcare heroes, our SEIU 1991 members always rise to the occasion during life’s most trying moments, whether it’s a recession or a once in a lifetime pandemic. We are once again being tested. This time, the Florida Legislature is challenging your right to have a union by legislatively interfering with the union’s ability to collectContinue reading “STAND WITH SEIU 1991: New Membership Cards and Dues Deduction System Coming Soon!”

SEIU Local 1991 is excited to once again invite you to join us at the Miami Beach Pride Parade on Sunday, April 16th. Meet your union team at 7th Street and Ocean Drive. The parade starts at 12 noon. Pride organizers require all parade participants to be in position by 11 a.m. For those decoratingContinue reading “RSVP now – Miami Beach Pride Parade – Sunday, April 16th”

The Florida Legislature is fast-tracking a bill attacking our constitutional right to be union members. SB 256 – is set to be heard in the Senate’s last committee this Thursday, March 16th. The South Florida Senators who sit on the Senate Fiscal Policy Committee need to hear from you in these next few days! InContinue reading “Protect SEIU 1991: Stop Florida Senate Bill 256”

https://wsvn.com/news/special-reports/living-nightmare-renters-with-good-jobs-still-struggle-with-south-floridas-sky-high-prices/ “WSVN 7 Investigative reporters Karen Hensel and Daniel Cohen interviewed three South Florida women in an ongoing series called: “Living Nightmare.” This investigative series is dedicated to highlighting how many South Florida renters with good jobs are still struggling to keep a roof over their heads, in what is now one of the mostContinue reading “WSVN 7 Interviews Jackson South ICU Nurse Vanessa Jolibois in “Living Nightmare: Renters with good jobs still struggle with South Florida’s sky-high prices””