Detroit Free Press: HEALTH CARE: Group says labor relations worse at 3 hospitals A nonprofit, interfaith group charged Thursday that labor relations at three Ascension Health hospitals in Detroit, Kalamazoo and Grand Blanc have deteriorated. Interfaith Worker Justice released a report, “A Fall from Grace: Workers’ Rights Abuses at Ascension Health’s Michigan Operations” on its [...]

Nurses Welcome Religious Leaders’ Spotlight on Ascension Health Abuses DETROIT—Leaders of the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) and its national union, National Nurses United (NNU), expressed their appreciation today to Interfaith Workers Justice for its new report, “Ascension Health: A Fall from Grace.” (The report can be found here.) The report from the national religious organization [...]

GRAND BLANC, Mich. PRNewswire-USNewswire — Today, hundreds of hospital workers picketed in front of Genesys Regional Medical Center to protest the hospital’s draconian terms proposed during the latest round of negotiations that would terminate the current retirement, health care and wage system. The technical bargaining unit is represented by Teamsters Local 332 in Flint, Mich. [...]