Slate Belt Nursing Home workers fear new boss will slash benefits
She'd rather not. The 54-year-old certified nursing assistant has lived in the Slate Belt most of her life, and many of the
"It would be hard for me to leave," she said.
But Setzer and her colleagues are afraid they don't have much of a choice. She says a handful have given notice since
The
Workers held "informational pickets" outside Slate Belt and four other Saber-operated facilities Friday afternoon to demand affordable health care and access to training and education opportunities that workers say enhance care for residents of the facilities.
The other participating facilities were
They're among at least a dozen
Other than Slate Belt, Saber has begun operating the facilities participating in Friday's picket. Saber has frozen wages, implemented immediate health care cost increases and withdrawn funding from a program that helps employees attend classes at local community colleges, among other terms, according to
Slate Belt employees receive health insurance through
Saber operates 111 facilities with about 10,000 beds in six states, according to its website.
"We continue to bargain in good faith with the union and look forward to completing a mutually agreeable contract consistent with our other collective bargaining agreements," he said in a statement. "Until then, we will maintain the same high quality care for our residents."
Setzer, of
Hower makes
"I've worked for seniority, and they just want to wipe it out," she said. "It's just not fair."
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