After 41 years at St. Joseph’s Medical Center, Brenda Savio had just 90 days to figure out where she would go next.
She had logged three, 12-hour shifts a week for more than four decades as a clerical secretary. When the layoff call came in June, Savio said it was like she was “hung out to dry.”
Savio ultimately managed to keep her job, her seniority giving her first pick of the hospital’s open positions. But that meant bumping one of her fellow secretaries from a unit where she feels like a “fish out of water.”…