Carney workers vote to join union
Almost 500 workers at Carney Hospital have voted to join a union, the third hospital in the Caritas Christi Health Care chain to do so, according to election results announced today.
Just under 80 percent of the Dorchester hospital's workers including respiratory therapists, radiology technologists, licensed practical nurses, nurse assistants, pharmacy technologists, clerical workers, housekeepers, and dietary workers, chose Local 1199 of the Service Employees International Union to represent them. Earlier this year, about 800 workers at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Brighton voted to join the same union. Good Samaritan Hospital, a Caritas hospital in Brockton, has about 900 members of the union.
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Ok Folks. Apparently the lesson of unions and their destruction of institutions hasn't taught you anything, Ask a current member of the UAW if they would have done anything different!