Local 1199 Pickets S.I. University Hospital Over Decertification Push

Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union held an informational picket outside of Staten Island University Hospital Oct. 2 to protest what it called an attempt by hospital management to get Physician Assistants who recently joined the union to decertify.

In April, more than 60 percent of the Physician Assistants at the hospital voted in favor of joining Local 1199. But the union is claiming that the hospital’s management, Northwell Health, has been showing the PAs anti-union videos to pressure them to decertify.