Re: Yale New Haven Hospital breaks labor law
On Dec 15, 2006, at 10:57 AM, Mark Rickling wrote:
New Haven Independent.org 13 Dec. 2006 Union Election Off; Arbitrator Says Hospital Broke Law Paul Bass
An arbitrator agreed with postponing next week’s long-awaited union election among Yale-New Haven Hospital’s 1,800 blue-collar workers because the hospital engaged in “serious violations of federal law” by pressuring workers to vote no. Mayor John DeStefano, steamed, called for a campaign to remove some of Yale-New Haven’s special tax breaks.
I’m not surprised to hear this. Yale is a viciously anti-union
institution, and has been for a long time, even by the standards of
the US bourgeoisie. And Yale-New Haven Hospital is notoriously
piggish: the WSJ had a story some years ago about how they went after
a low-wage Yale dining hall employee who couldn’t pay her hospital
bills in the most merciless fashion. They tried to seize her house,
when many hospitals would have written it off.
Doug