Nursing Home Workers Target Billionaire Owner

Nursing home workers will demonstrate against billionaire David Rubenstein today at his buyout firm’s offices in downtown DC. Though Rubenstein is worth more than $2 billion, workers at his Manor Care nursing homes earn low wages and don’t have access to affordable family health care. A group of residents, family members, and workers from Manor Care homes across the nation are gathering in Washington this week to take these concerns straight to Rubenstein, whose buyout firm, Carlyle, bought Manor Care nursing homes in December. As workers in two states bargain new union contracts, management is fighting back, trying to take away secure retirement and denying wage increases and access to affordable family health care. Supporters argue that better working conditions for caregivers would lower turnover and could improve the quality of care.