As “the president of New York’s largest health-care union, George Gresham of 1199SEIU, has won the top spot on the ‘Labor Power 100’ list from City & State magazine” yet again, the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond recaps “the recent lobbying victories that have bolstered 1199’s claim to that No. 1 ranking.” This spring, the union 1199 got a bailout of its benefit fund by enrolling “many of its unionized home health workers in a taxpayer-funded health insurance” plan. It joined with nursing-home operators to roll back “minimum spending requirements” enacted in 2021, and allied with the hospital lobby to move “lawmakers to allocate ever-larger amounts of state money for Medicaid.” Those wins relied on “alarmist” TV ads making “baseless or misleading” claims “echoed by elected officials of both parties.”
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