Howard Brown Health workers begin three-day strike

Workers on a three-day strike demonstrated outside a Howard Brown Health center Tuesday to denounce the organization’s decision to layoff a group of 61 union workers in the midst of contract negotiations. The workers received notice they had been laid off Friday. Their jobs range from clinical therapists and facility management employees to retail workers who staff thrift stores that benefit the nonprofit organization. The workers are part of a group 450 employees who formed a union over the summer that’s negotiating its first contract. Leaders with the newly formed...