The Yale Daily News is reporting on the enactment of the hospital debt legislation which we won this summer. Interestingly, the hospital seems to have returned to the same old ineffective line that this campaign is a front for the union effort.

Following the distribution of the pamphlets, the hospital issued a statement saying CCNE's efforts were driven by an ulterior motive: its desire to unionize workers at the hospital. A union representing about 150 dietary workers has sought to organize another 1,800 employees at the hospital.

"Yale-New Haven Hospital staff regularly provide patients who do not have insurance with information about free care and offer individual counseling to patients who ask for help," the statement read. "The unions that developed this document have a different agenda -- to organize a large number of Yale-New Haven Hospital's employees."

What the hospital doesn't understand is that this isn't about 1199 more than it's about what they are doing to every other working family whose lives they've placed on lien. It's about building a mass movement to fight for access to health care in this country. And Yale can't stand in our way any longer.
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