FIVE NURSES AT JAIL FIRED AFTER EFFORTS TO UNIONIZE.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer

The new company hired to provide health care at the Albany County jail has fired five nurses involved in efforts to unionize the staff.

Ken Fields, spokesman for St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services, said the company took the action after receiving a determination from the National Labor Relations Board that the employees improperly picketed

outside the jail without giving the required 10 days advance notice.

``This was an illegal activity in violation of a law that is more than 30 years old,'' Fields said.

The activity was illegal, he said, because it had ``the potential to disrupt …