"The hospital never came forward and told us they didn't pay, the benefits fund communicated [in mid-January] that the last three payments were in arrears, that we wouldn't be getting benefits from February 1. For 40 days, nurses were without healthcare and retirement benefits."
"CEO [Gary] Terronini is playing a dangerous game with the hospital's finances, and the nurses refuse to be pawns. We are here to demand hospital administrators restore and secure our benefits now. We don't want to be back here without our benefits. We are sick and tired of this bullshit over and over and over."
Nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center faced a healthcare crisis when they abruptly lost their benefits six weeks after the hospital narrowly avoided a strike by agreeing to fully fund healthcare and pension benefits. The hospital failed to pay into the nurses' benefit fund, leaving 40 days without coverage. Hospital CEO Gary Terrinoni attributed the delay to waiting for a cash infusion from Albany. Governor Kathy Hochul provided $15 million to the hospital, but executives delayed restoring benefits. On March 16, the hospital made a payment to reinstate coverage only through April 30, leaving nurses facing another benefits loss on May 1. Nurses protested at the CEO's home, demanding permanent solutions and refusing to be treated as pawns in the hospital's financial mismanagement.
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