More than one hundred union nurses and other healthcare workers surrounded the Olympia branch of the Bank of America February 10, calling on the bank to give back its multi-million dollar tax break to help fund the state’s threatened Basic Health Plan.
Denied a meeting with bank officials, the delegation, members of SEIU Healthcare 1199NW, headed for the Capitol grounds to met with their legislators.
“Basic Health could be eliminated in the state budget, but we’re still allowing Wall Street banks to profit with millions in tax breaks,” said Vicki Neumeier, a registered nurse. “We’re essentially giving revenue away, but we don’t know where our patients or families will go for health care. It doesn’t make sense, and it’s not right.”
