Employees question psych-care deal / Unions say they will fight outsourcing of jobs.
Source: By WILLIAM K. ALCORN, VINDICATOR (OH), Saturday, July 29, 2006
YOUNGSTOWN — Forum Health psychiatric program employees say they don't know if they will still be working for the hospital system when the management and operation of the behavioral medicine department is farmed out Oct. 1. ….. Tom Connelly, president of American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2026, and Ray Braham, president of AFSCME Local 2804, both at Trumbull Memorial Hospital, have sent letters to Forum demanding that the employee issue be negotiated. Local 2026 represents registered nurses at TMH, and Local 2804, the hospital's service employees.