Home care workers say company thwarting union efforts

Source: Boston Globe

By Katie Johnston

A group of Boston home care workers say their company is trying to thwart their attempts to unionize, forcing them to cancel appointments with elderly clients to attend anti-union meetings, even promising $1,000 bonuses for some if they keep workers from organizing.

“What they’re doing to us, it’s creating a lot of fear,” Mun Ying, a 49-year-old part-time home care worker, said in Chinese through an interpreter. “We should be caring for our clients, not going to these meetings.”

Ying works out of the Boston branch of Newton-based Medical Resources Home Health Corp., which has eight offices across the state.

Following an organizing campaign by the local health care workers union 1199 SEIU, Boston caregivers are holding a mail-in union vote this week overseen by the National Labor Relations Board.

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