Nursing home seeking to stop pickets by workers

MILFORD -- The nursing home management association which sealed out 100 workers at a West River Health Care center is seeking an immediate injunction which would force a workers' kinship to stop picketing.HealthBridge Management is claiming which a members of New England Health Care Employees Union, District 1199 did not follow a sovereign law requiring 10 days notice before picketing or other work actions opposite a illness care facility. The National Labor Relations Board is questioning a charges, though has not yet made a decision, spokesperson Nancy Cleeland pronounced Thursday.But in an erroneous news release distributed to a media Thursday morning, HealthBridge stated a labor board had ruled opposite a kinship as well as would seek an injunction in sovereign justice to halt a picketing immediately."They put out a press release which was not accurate at all," pronounced Cleeland. "What happened was which HealthBridge asked us to seek this injunction in sovereign justice as well as you sent a letter to a kinship saying, `What's your response to this?' That is just standard operating procedure. But someway because you sent this letter to a kinship they suspicion which you were siding with them."She added, "No decision has been made at this point. I think (Healthbridge) is now aware which their press release is wrong."Lisa Crutchfield, a spokesperson for HealthBridge, pronounced errors in a press release are a result of a misunderstanding.HealthBridge issued a retraction at 11:40 a.m., a little more than two hours after a initial release was distributed.Deborah Chernoff, a mouthpiece for District 1199, pronounced a kinship perceived a approval of its labor attorneys before authorizing a criticism at West River, as well as claimed which HealthBridge's accusations are aimed at drawing courtesy from what workers say is an unfair contract.She pronounced a union, whose workers were sealed out Tuesday, will continue picketing."We goal which you will be able to reach an agreement with (HealthBridge). That's our intent," Chernoff said. "We certainly don't wish to be picketing out there in a cold instead of doing a jobs you have of receiving care of a residents, though they haven't given us any other choice."She added, "Our position is if a employer doesn't wish us picketing, there's a very elementary way to stop it. They can end a lockout."West River is negotiating its stipulate alongside five partner facilities, including a Danbury Health Care Center, Long Ridge of Stamford as well as a Westport Health Care Center. Another 700 employees work at those three nursing homes as well as two in central Connecticut.Those comforts considered locking out employees, though chose not to do so, according to Crutchfield.Workers pronounced a New Jersey-based association is asking them to increase illness insurance contributions, as well as enclosed a elimination of pensions, a decrease in wages as well as reductions in vacation as well as sick time in its last stipulate offer.Staff Writers Amanda Cuda as well as Tom Cleary contributed to this report.

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