Workers protest as nursing home sale mulled
Source: BY REID J. EPSTEIN, Newsday (NY), March 25, 2008
A week after County Executive Steve Levy proposed studying selling Suffolk's John J. Foley Skilled Nursing Facility, the fight over the facility intensified yesterday as Levy warned of possible layoffs and employees protested any sale.
About two dozen nurses and other employees picketed over any potential sale outside the 264-resident nursing home in Yaphank, holding signs saying the county should sell Levy rather than the Foley facility.
......."To balance the budget on the backs of the sick is unconscionable," said Deborah McKee, a vice president of the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees.