WARREN - The union that represents nurses at Insight Hospital & Medical Center Trumbull and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Warren has sued Insight for an alleged breach of their collective bargaining agreement.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in the Trumbull County Common Pleas Court on Monday, March 16, Insight violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (CBA) when its hospitals shut down without warning in March of 2025, causing hundreds of employees to be laid off.

The suit alleges that Insight failed to provide adequate notice of layoffs, failed to maintain accurate accruals of unused earned vacation time and failed to pay out unused earned vacation accruals.

Grievances regarding this matter were filed in April of 2025.

According to the suit, those grievances advanced to arbitration when they were submitted to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) in September of 2025.

The suit alleges that soon after that, Insight told American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Ohio Council 8 Regional Director Deb Bindas that they were "not consenting to arbitrate any grievance filed on behalf of [the union] given that the current CBA has expired."

Since then, Bindas has submitted repeated requests over the course of several months for Insight to appoint arbitrators to hear the grievances, but Insight never honored those requests, according to the suit.

"[Insight's] conduct in refusing to comply with the contractually mandated arbitration procedures is willful, wanton, in bad faith and in complete disregard of its obligations under the collective bargaining agreements," the suit reads.

The union is demanding that Insight immediately comply with the arbitration process and also demands punitive damages, attorney fees, court costs and any other relief that the court deems just and proper.

You can read much more about the sudden closure of Insight's hospitals in Trumbull County and the effects they've had on employees in our related coverage below.

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