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The Union Moved. The Beloved Mosaic Mural Couldn’t. The architect David Adjaye spurred a painstaking re-creation of a doomed artwork for its new home — and added a homage to the union’s place in social justice history. Anton Refregier’s mosaic tile mural on the front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Center on West 43rd Street, the former headquarters of 1199 S.E.I.U., awaits an uncertain fate. The center is named for King because of the long mutual support they enjoyed.Credi...

Maya Wiley Gets A Boost From Coveted Union Endorsement arrow Maya Wiley tours the Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service. February 2021. Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock Maya Wiley’s week may not have started well, just missing the threshold to qualify for public funds, but it’s ending with a bang: the largest union representing the city’s healthcare workers, 1199SEIU, announced Friday that they are giving their endorsement — and their mighty political ...

The endorsement by Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union is a major win for Ms. Wiley. The union was a key early supporter of Bill de Blasio in another crowded mayor’s race in 2013.

Maya Wiley gets boost from powerful healthcare workers union in NYC mayoral bid Michael Gartland One of the city’s most powerful unions endorsed Maya Wiley in her mayoral run Friday, giving her campaign a much-needed shot in the arm after it failed to qualify for public matching funds earlier in the week. The endorsement from 1199 SEIU, which represents healthcare workers and is the largest union in the city, is a huge stamp of approval for Wiley and will translate into the un...

Feb 19, 2021 In the midst of the controversy over nursing home deaths during COVID-19, state Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo today announced sweeping nursing home reform legislation to increase transparency, hold nursing home operators accountable for misconduct and help ensure facilities are prioritizing patient care over profits as part of the 30-day amendments. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated existing health equity and access to care issues among all communities, however, the State’s minority comm...

The endorsement from 1199 SEIU, which represents healthcare workers and is the largest union in the city, is a huge stamp of approval for Wiley and will most certainly translate into the union lending its get-out-the-vote muscle to her City Hall run.

Title Text:  Caption:  Description:  Image Credit:  Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is likely a lame duck and declined to prosecute Donald Trump’s children in 2012, but he may be the one person who can now hold the former president accountable for his actions. While an impeachment conviction seems unlikely in Washington, Vance’s office has been slowly gathering evidence in a criminal probe of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns. Vance�...

SHARE: A Monday report from The New York Times describing a growing rift between Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state public health officials is the latest evidence of the governor’s close relationship with the state’s health care industry and hospitals. According to the article, Cuomo relied more heavily on private hospital executives than on state officials, such as Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health, in making plans for COVID-19 vaccine distribution. This, the Times reports, contributed to ...

Photo courtesy Northwell Health As the coronavirus pandemic tested the viability of New York’s health care system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo turned again and again to Michael Dowling. The governor has worked closely with the leader of Northwell Health, New York’s biggest employer, relying on him as his chief intermediary with New York’s hospitals, naming his longtime ally to a panel to “reimagine” New York in the wake of COVID-19 and even making a Northwell nurse the first American to receive...

Credit WBFO file photo Cuomo warned that the new strain might already be in the U.S. and could cause another wave of infection. He said he believes it may already have arrived with the several thousand passengers a day who have continued to fly between Heathrow Airport and JFK and LaGuardia airports in New York City. “I believe, intuitively, it’s already here,” Cuomo said. “Because if it’s been flying around the world, it will be here.” Cuomo wants President Donald Trump’s adminis...