After three wearying months of walking the picket line, 220 nursing home workers at the Kingsbridge Heights Rehabilitation and Care Center in the west Bronx have had plenty of time to sharpen their message. ?Health care workers like us should have health care coverage,? said Jacqueline Simono, who has worked for 10 years at the six-story, 400-bed nursing home. In August, the nursing home stopped paying the workers? health insurance premiums, and as a result, their coverage was cut off. That, the workers say, was the main reason they went on strike on Feb. 20. The workers, members of 1199 S.E.I.U. United Healthcare Workers East, say they are expecting the National Labor Relations Board to give them some good news soon to help end the strike.
See "Caregivers on Strike Look to Labor Board for Relief", Steven Greenhouse, The New York Times, May 26, 2008