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Members put the HEAT on Bush’s health cuts
Spitzer supports HHC workers
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With
several District Council 37 local leaders looking on, Gov. Elliot Spitzer thanks
union members at Elmhurst Hospital Center in Queens for the great work that they
do during a March 16 meeting.
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are responsible for providing the best health care in the world.”
— Gov. Eliot Spitzer
Gov. Eliot Spitzer arrived at Elmhurst Hospital
Center in Queens March 16 to a packed house of enthusiastic hospital workers and
union leaders. “You are the ones who are responsible for providing the best
health care in the world,” said the governor as union members cheered wildly.
“I’m just a lawyer.”
Assembly member Ivan C. Lafayette
and City Council member Helen Sears, both from Jackson Heights, agreed wholeheartedly
with Gov. Spitzer. “You’re the people who do the difficult work and
get things done here,” Lafayette told the crowd as he held up a green DC
37 T-shirt in the standing-room-only auditorium.
“The members of
Locals 1549, 768, and 420 have turned Elmhurst Hospital Center into a jewel of
a hospital,” said Sears, referring to the hundreds of DC 37 members in those
and other locals who work in the public hospital that serves a huge immigrant
community from Elmhurst, Jackson Heights,Astoria and surrounding neighborhoods.
The leadership of District Council 37 was also on hand to express their support
for Gov. Spitzer’s new budget. “We at DC 37 are behind you,” said
DC 37 Treasurer and Local 1407 President Maf Misbah Uddin on behalf of DC 37 Executive
Director Lillian Roberts.
“Usually after every budget is delivered
we have to get involved in a fight with the governor, but I’m very happy
to say that on this occasion that will not happen. We support this budget, and
you can count on our support,” he said. —
Alfredo Alvarado | |
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