Arthritis

Former Building Cleaner Confronts J&J About Access to Health Care, Drugs

Published in Physician Law Weekly, May 9th, 2007

Former Budget Maintenance employee Jorge Nunez, with support from staff members of SEIU 32BJ, attended a Johnson & Johnson annual meeting in New Brunswick, NJ Thursday to draw attention to the struggle of Budget Maintenance employees who clean Centocor offices in the Philadelphia suburbs. Centocor is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson.

Jorge Nunez, who worked for Budget Maintenance at the Centocor building in Wayne, Pennsylvania, left his job because it did not pay enough to support him and his family. Budget Maintenance also failed to provide Nunez insurance to help pay for medicine. Nunez suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that can be treated with Remicade, a...

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Source: Physician Law Weekly (2007-05-09)

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