Nurses Welcome Religious Leaders' Spotlight on Ascension Health Abuses

Interfaith Worker Justice, July 15, 2010 Detroit - Leaders of the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) and its national union, National Nurses United (NNU), expressed their appreciation today to Interfaith Worker Justice for its new report, "Ascension Health: A Fall from Grace." The report from the national religious organization documents labor rights abuses at Ascension Health's Michigan hospitals, including at Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where 700 MNA/NNU registered nurses are in an ongoing struggle to secure a new collective bargaining agreement. ... Nurses