By joining 1199SEIU, thousands of EMS workers have won the best job standards and patient protections:
Wages and Benefits
✔️Higher pay & ongoing raises
✔️Differentials for advanced skill levels, certifications & years of service
✔️More PTO
✔️Affordable family healthcare
✔️Secure retirement
✔️Affordable childcare
✔️Paid lunch breaks
Job Standards
✔️No-cost or low-cost education and training opportunities
✔️Job protections, including bans on subcontracting
✔️Professional Practice Committees of coworkers that address work issues
✔️Professional Councils of coworkers that design continuing education programs
Covid-19 Rights
We’ve fought for worker protections during the COVID-19 public health crisis & won:
✔️ Covid-19 testing for all healthcare workers that need it
✔️90-day PPE supply at all hospitals
✔️14-day paid leave
✔️Free childcare
✔️Free Airbnb
Government Voice
Our jobs, and healthcare, are highly regulated, and 1199SEIU is the most influential voice for EMS workers in the government and regulatory arena. Together, we’ve fought for and won:
✔️Healthcare funding
✔️Patients’ rights
✔️Enhanced pension and health and disability benefits for first responders at Ground Zero post 9/11.
