Nurses at The Brooklyn Hospital Center say they were stunned to learn late last week that their health care benefits had been cut off, a move their union calls a violation of an agreement meant to prevent a strike at the hospital.
“This has never happened. We’ve had our struggles in the past as a safety net hospital,” said nurse Rehana Lowtan.
That changed, nurses say, on Jan. 31, when Lowtan and her colleagues learned they had lost their health care benefits…