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Former Aliquippa Hospital Workers Fight For Final Paychecks

Commonwealth Medical Center Closed In December

UPDATED: 10:24 am EST January 26, 2009

First they lost their hospital, then their jobs.

Now, the former workers can't get three weeks' pay that's owed to them -- and they'll hold a demonstration in front of Commonwealth Medical Center at noon Monday.

Aliquippa's only hospital went bankrupt and closed in December. A bankruptcy judge has agreed to hear employees' side of the story Tuesday in federal court in downtown Pittsburgh.

Executives received their paychecks, but 200 former hospital employees didn't. On Friday, the workers rallied together and shared stories of struggle without a job or health care coverage.

"Other people have gotten their pay. What did they do? What did they do for us? Nothing. They took it all away from the community members, the patients that we took care of -- it's gone," said former hospital worker Johnnie Psomas.

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