HealthBridge Management appeals injunction
A Connecticut nursing home chain ordered to reinstate approximately 600 to 700 workers has filed an appeal and is seeking to stay implementation of the order.
On Tuesday, Judge Robert N. Chatigny of the U.S. District Court in Connecticut granted an injunction against HealthBridge Management sought by the National Labor Relations Board.
The injunction orders HealthBridge Management to make offers of reinstatement by Monday to 600 to 700 workers who went on strike in July, to rescind changes made to employee wages and benefits and bargain in good faith with the union representing the employees.
On Wednesday, HealthBridge Management filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and filed a motion to stay implementation of the injunction’s orders in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.
In a press release announcing the appeal and stay motion, HealthBridge Management said it is “acting in the best interests of our residents.” The company claims when employees went on strike last summer, they committed “multiple criminal acts of sabotage” against residents in three nursing homes – acts such as removing and discarding residents’ wristbands, changing the names on patient doors and wheelchairs and removing stickers indicating how residents could be safely fed.
HealthBridge Management’s sabotage allegations are currently under investigation, and a number of complaints filed by the NLRB against HealthBridge have yet to be resolved.
