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ADVISORY/ City Religious Leaders Join Hospital Union to Hold Prayer Service and Rally in Support of Public Hospitals and Laid-off Workers.


--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

When: Friday November 6, 1998

6:00 PM

Where: Coney Island Coney Island (kō`nē), beach resort, amusement center, and neighborhood of S Brooklyn borough of New York City, SE N.Y., on the Atlantic Ocean.  Gospel Assembly

2828 Neptune Avenue

Brooklyn, NY

What: A group of concerned Clergy leaders from throughout the City will join Municipal Hospital Workers Union Local 420, DC 37, AFSCME AFSCME American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees  for a mass prayer service and rally in support of laid-off health care workers and against efforts to close hospitals. In recent weeks the City has abruptly a·brupt  
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 closed the Neponsit Health Care Center in Queens, put the Central Laundry Laundry can be:
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  • the act of washing clothing and textiles
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 in Brooklyn up for sale and have announced plans to contract out employee cafeterias in several public hospitals. In addition, 600 hospital workers were terminated this past May, leaving many hospitals with severe staff shortages.
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