A “routine business decision” by the execs at Fletcher Allen Health Care – the 7,000-employee hospital with an operating income of $11.5 million last quarter – threw its bus drivers to the wolves by accepting a low-bid contract from a transit company (Mountain Transit, Inc.) that provides no health insurance to its workers. The previous contractor, First Student, Inc., employed about six full-timers at Fletcher Allen who shuttled FA employees to off-site parking lots. All six drivers will lose their jobs and their health insurance as part of the move.
From today’s Burlington Free Press:
to have posted about the same issue without seeing this was already here.