Protesting Manor Care Sale/Terms
Posted by Patti on September 21st, 2007 / Print This Post
SEIU members attended a rally, protesting the sale and terms of the recent sale of Manor Care nursing homes.
About 175 union activists rallied yesterday at the Washington headquarters of a private-equity group to protest the terms of its planned takeover of Toledo nursing home giant Manor Care Inc.Chanting “Better staffing, better care, not more money for millionaires,” members of the Service Employees International Union marched into the lobby of the headquarters of Carlyle Group LP, said Andrew McDonald, a union spokesman.
The rally attendees were not met with open doors though.
But they were turned away when they tried to deliver a list of demands to officials of the multibillion-dollar investment group. “Today, we kicked off what is going to be a national effort around this Manor Care buyout,” the spokesman said.Manor Care is one of the nation’s largest nursing-home operators, with 550 nursing homes and related facilities nationwide.
These kinds of protests are usually well received. Maybe the unions should think of a better way? I don’t think it would matter with Manor Care though- for them it IS all about profit.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Manor Care would do everything it could to lock out these protests and divert attention from them. MC doesn’t care one bit about the people they serve. We’ve gone back and forth here about this group- fact is they make more money off the backs of our elderly than most other chains. All we can do is educate people about the ways and means of this for profit concentration camp enabler.