Communications Workers of America Local 1168 and 1199 SEIU United HealthCare Workers East, which represent more than 6,300 workers within the Kaleida system, announced late Thursday evening that 96% of participating workers voted in favor of authorizing a strike.
Following a coordinated series of one-day strikes earlier this summer, workers at seven Western New York nursing homes have secured new contracts, but workers at two others are now set to go on even longer strikes.
Unionized hospital employees at Kaleida Health are taking a ’strike vote’ over the next three days. Voting is in full swing inside the Wyndham Garden Hotel on High Street in Buffalo.