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December 09, 2005
Manhattan: Home Health Workers Strike
New York's largest health-care union, 1199 United Healthcare Workers East, began a four-day strike yesterday against People Care, a home-health agency that cares for the elderly and disabled in their homes. The union said that about 800 of People Care's 1,100 workers walked out to protest the company's failure to sign a contract that several other home-health agencies have signed. A company spokesman said that only 200 workers walked out. The union says People Care pays $6.50 an hour, and the contract calls for $10 an hour beginning in 2007. People Care said wages were competitive with the rest of the industry."
Posted by Michelle at December 9, 2005 04:42 PM