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Healthcare union celebrates its frontline
workers with caravan through Queens
BY BILL PARRY
bparry@schnepsmedia.com
@QNS
More than a hundred vehicles,
packed with 1199SEIU offi cials and
staff , made its way through Queens
on May 13 to show support and gratitude
Photos courtesy of 1199SEIU
for frontline healthcare professionals
who have risked their own
health to care for others during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
With horns blaring with signs
that read “All healthcare workers are
essential” and “Th ank you healthcare
professionals for all that you do”
hanging from car windows, the caravan
made three dozen stops at hospitals
and nursing homes in Queens
and then Brooklyn and Staten Island.
“We are here today to honor the
brave and courageous healthcare
workers who have been putting their
health — and their lives — on the
line every day to care for others,”
1199SEIU President George Gresham
said before the motorcade left its
staging area at Aqueduct Racetrack.
“All of our workers are essential:
nurses, technicians, cleaners and all
the others. Th ey are extremely courageous
to risk getting sick to help
those who cannot take care of themselves.”
Th e caravan’s fi rst stop was Jamaica
Hospital, where their fellow 1199
members greeted them with cheers,
songs and dancing.
From there they made stops at several
Queens nursing homes, including
the Franklin Nursing Home and
Hillside Manor, as well as Queens
Hospital Center and Long Island
Jewish Hospital. Brooklyn stops
included Maimonides Medical
Center, Mount Sinai, Brooklyn
Hospital, Brooklyn Hospital Center,
Oxford Nursing Home and Marcus
Garvey Residential Rehab.
Th e caravan also visited Richmond
University Medical Center and both
Staten Island University hospitals. A
similar motorcade visited locations
in the Bronx and Manhattan the following
day to celebrate the healthcare
professionals from 1199SEIU.
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