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About 240 LPNs and techs expected to picket Potsdam hospital tomorrow

Posted 10/10/19

POTSDAM -- About 240 LPNs and techs at Canton Potsdam Hospital will picket the hospital at 50 Leroy St. on Friday, Oct. 11 from 3-6 p.m. to protest hospital management's refusal to bargain over …

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About 240 LPNs and techs expected to picket Potsdam hospital tomorrow

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POTSDAM -- About 240 LPNs and techs at Canton Potsdam Hospital will picket the hospital at 50 Leroy St. on Friday, Oct. 11 from 3-6 p.m. to protest hospital management's refusal to bargain over unaffordable health insurance costs for employees.

The group is represented by 1199SEIU, United Healthcare Workers East.

“The increases to our family health insurance premiums are unaffordable for most of us, they are even more than the raises we would get,” said Dana Thomas, a MRI Technologist at Canton Potsdam Hospital, in a press release from the union. “How can we ever get ahead if our entire wage increases have to go directly to our health insurance costs? We don’t want to move backward.”

St. Lawrence Health System, currently in the processes of taking over Massena Hospital and granting them $8 million, has refused to try to reach a compromise with workers in the LPN and tech bargaining unit, the union said in the press release.