Nurses Decry Multitude of Sins at Union-Busting Catholic Hospitals

Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes, July 15, 2010 Less than 6 percent of Ascension Health’s 110,000 workers are union members, but apparently that’s 6 percent too many for the country’s largest Catholic health system. Management is on a concerted campaign to bust unions at its hospitals in Michigan, say the Teamsters, the Michigan Nurses Association and their ally Interfaith Worker Justice, a national organization that works with religious leaders. IWJ Executive Director Kim Bobo called Ascension’s sins “a fall from grace.” RN Tiffany McDonald, a Teamster, said “the whole culture is gone” at Genesys Medical Center in Grand Blanc near Flint ... Nurses