Howard Brown Health will celebrate 50 years of serving the needs of LBGTQ and HIV+ communities. Currently, it will do so minus about 16% of its workforce — 64 employees laid off, another 15 accepting buyouts and 38 vacant positions that won’t be filled.
Employees at Howard Brown Health on Wednesday striked for the second day over layoffs they say will create headaches for patients, and unfairly target their newly-unionized workforce instead of using other approaches to make up a budget shortfall.
“We have to turn this around. We’re losing a million dollars a month. A million dollars a month,” Munar said. “That is not a sustainable way to support a health system and if we cannot turn this around it puts in jeopardy the care of tens of thousands of patients, but also the security of the workforce needed to deliver affirming care.”
Striking employees and their supporters said Munar is greedy, and believe the financial situation isn’t really that dire. Bartmes called it a tragedy the layoffs came right after the holidays, and said already, patients have a hard time getting appointments and this will make it worse.
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