Greenbrier Employees Continue To Have Health Insurance For Now

Greenbrier Hotel employees were notified Monday that they may lose their health care coverage at the end of August. But, according to union leaders, they will maintain their health care coverage for now. 

The Greenbrier, owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family, is four months delinquent in payments to its employees’ health insurance company, according to the Amalgamated National Health Fund. 

The company said without payment it would stop providing coverage to the Greenbrier’s employees. The announcement was made as the iconic hotel faced imminent foreclosure. 

Leaders from the Greenbrier Council of Labor Unions (GCLU) told West Virginia Public Broadcasting that due to the recently canceled foreclosure of the Greenbrier, employees will maintain their health care coverage for now. 

“The Amalgamated National Health Fund will continue to provide health care benefits through Aug. 31st to the employees represented by the GCLU,” said a Greenbrier Council of Labor Unions press release. 

This is despite the Greenbrier’s continued delinquencies that the union group said is “factual, tangible, and documented.”

GCLU said it demands that the Greenbrier come to an agreement with the health insurance company to settle its delinquencies so that employees continue receiving coverage in the future.