Local caregivers took a stand demanding a fair contract by holding a rally and informational picket in front of Cleveland Clinic Lutheran Hospital on Wednesday.
Nearly 200 members of SEIU District 1199 are part of the union that represents LPN’s, nurse’s aides, transporters, house cleaning staff and several other positions at the hospital. Brian Higgins has worked at the hospital for well over a decade as a power plant mechanic and is currently on the SEIU, Executive Board, “We’ve been negotiating since the beginning of April and the hospital refuses to negotiate.
“We will stand with you in Columbus, we will stand with you in Cleveland. We will stand with you where you need us to be,” Smith said. “The Cleveland Clinic is a majority, minority city. Our work force is majority minority. Yet, they refused to give our women parental and maternity leave, 12 weeks pay like they give everyone else. They also refuse to fund our retirement, they refuse to give us short term disability,” Higgins said.
“Health care is ridiculous, some of us can’t even afford to go to the doctor because of the copay. If we go to the doctor we might as well not get the prescription because we can’t afford the prescription,” she said.
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