Robin Bawkey is a homecare worker and a member SEIU (Service Employees International Union) Healthcare Michigan in Kalamazoo, MI. Robin recently joined fellow senior advocates and nursing home staff on a weeklong caravan from Toledo, Ohio to Washington DC to raise concerns over The Carlyle Group’s $6.3 billion takeover of HCR Manor Care. The trip culminated in lobby visits on Capitol Hill Oct. 23, where U.S. Reps. John Dingell and Barney Frank announced new committee investigations and the first Congressional hearings on private equity ownership of nursing homes. For more information on Manor Care, go to www.carlylefixmanorcarenow.org. For more background on how private equity buyouts can hurt average workers, go to www.beyondthebuyouts.org.

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