More than 1,000 people are slated to be laid off at financially-troubled SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the next year — with hundreds now getting word they’re being axed.
One of every eight employees at the cash-strapped hospital’s East Flatbush and Cobble Hill facilities are being let go, according to Brooklyn pols who have asked Gov. Cuomo to intervene because they fear Downstate will severely cut back medical services.
In the most recent round, layoff letters were mailed Friday to 360 employees at Downstate’s University Hospital on Clarkson Ave.
“People are bracing themselves for the worst,” a worker said Monday. “It’s been really tense. There are a lot of sad faces, a lot of stressed looks.”
Ninety percent of the laid-off employees will get a year’s advance notice of their termination, said a spokesman for their union, United University Professions.
“I hate the mailman,” said an employee who fears he’s losing his job.
“Everybody is scared; they think they could be next,” said another worker. “Nobody is safe.”
The 360 job cuts follows layoffs last month of about 60 workers in East Flatbush and 150 at the former Long Island College Hospital site. So far, doctors, nurses and other hospital staff have been among those cut among Downstate’s 8,000 employees, officials said…
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