breaking

Both the Boston Globe and the New Haven Independent are reporting that a deal has been struck between Yale-New Haven Hospital, 1199NEHCEU, and CORD. More later, obviously.

Update:
News Channel 8
New Haven Independent

The deal includes landmark promises from the hospital to the community,
including a promise to hire 100 New Haveners a year, many from the surrounding
Hill, Dwight and West River neighborhoods; to establish a “citizen’s advisory
committee” to monitor Yale-New Haven’s free care policies; to invest at least
$100,000 a year for five years in a “career ladder program” for local people;
make a voluntary tax payment to the city the way other major not-for-profits
have agreed to do; make 12 traffic-signal improvements in the area around the
cancer center; and contribute $100,000 a year for five years to the Mayor’s
Youth Initiative.

In other words, the hospital agreed to a “community
benefits agreement” that activists from the labor-affiliated community group
CORD had been demanding.

“Yale-New Haven sat down with a community group they don’t control and they struck a deal,” crowed Rev. Henry Morris (pictured) of CORD. “That’s never happened before.” He predicted the community benefits deal would set a precedent for all major future development in the city

Update 2:
Josh