LICH nurses taking SUNY back to court in Brooklyn
Brooklyn has been ‘snookered again,” they say
Nurses and other staffers at Long Island College Hospital (LICH) are taking the State University of New York (SUNY) back to state Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday.
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) filed a temporary restraining order on Tuesday to halt the sale of the LICH campus to developer Fortis Property Group. An attorney for 1199 SEIU Healthcare Workers East appeared in court with NYSNA attorney Richard Seltzer to stand in support of his filing.
The nurses and other caregivers say that Fortis and its main health care partner NYU-Langone Medical Center, which will be operating a free-standing emergency room on the LICH site, violated a promise to rehire LICH workers laid off after SUNY shut down the hospital.