health care worker strike

Union mental health workers who are employed by Sound Community Services started a three-day strike at 6 a.m. on Sunday. They are asking for better conditions at a mental healthcare non-profit in New London.

Union mental health workers who are employed by Sound Community Services started a three-day strike at 6 a.m. on Sunday. They are asking for better conditions at a mental healthcare non-profit in New London. The union says state leaders have outsourced public mental health work to nonprofits like theirs over the past several decades with the aim of cutting costs….

It’s been more than a month on the picket line for 150 health workers at Sunrise Northeast. Now the center’s attorney says they’re hiring permanent replacements – which means those workers could be out of a job soon.

Sunrise Northeast has plans to hire replacement workers to replace striking employees.