With No Contract, AFSCME To Strike Connecticut Red Cross Thursday
October 28th 2011 · 0 Comments
Red Cross Blood Collection Workers Set To Strike Thursday
DAN HAAR | The Hartford Courant
October 28, 2011
Two hundred blood collection workers at the Connecticut Blood Services region of the American Red Cross will go on strike Thursday after more than two years without a contract, the union representing the workers said Friday.
The strike by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3145 will be open-ended, in contrast to a three-day action in June 2010, the union said. It follows a breakdown in negotiations in which the Red Cross rejected the union’s latest demands last weekend.
Blood supplies are low in the Northeast region, the Red Cross said, but officials at the nonprofit agency said they have assured hospitals that the strike will not disrupt deliveries
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