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| | New York City/Long Island | 1199SEIU |
 | | In 1959, the largely male, Jewish drugstore Union began to transform itself by launching drives to organize the city’s voluntary, not-for profit hospitals and their primarily female, African-American and Latino workers. |
| | They include not only most of the city’s hospital workers but also tens of thousands of nursing home workers, homecare attendants and home health aides, workers in free-standing community clinics for mental health, mental retardation and substance abuse, and human service workers in the Legal Aid Society, Columbia and Yeshiva Universities and other non-healthcare facilities. |
| | They are organized within the 1199SEIU internal structure along “health systems” lines, designed primarily for collective bargaining purposes to align with a restructured hospital industry with its networks of medical centers with their auxiliary satellite clinics, nursing homes and homecare agencies. |
| www.1199seiu.org /members/regions/nyc/index.cfm (175 words) |
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