Michigan Nurses Win the Largest Union Election in Years

[Omaha Steve]

https://labornotes.org/2024/11/michigan-nurses-win-largest-union-election-years


Michigan nurses working for conglomerate Corewell Health have voted union, the largest unit to do so in a decade. “They’re just going to keep taking from us, and enough was enough,” said Wayne nurse Natalie Lunsford. Photo: Nurses for Nurses

November 21, 2024 / Kari Thompson

It is the largest successful union election in recent memory: 10,000 nurses will be joining the Teamsters. They work for hospital conglomerate Corewell Health at eight hospitals and one outpatient facility, all in southeast Michigan.

“We’re so excited we can hardly stand it,” said Katherine Wallace, a nurse at the hospital in Troy, who has been a core part of the campaign since October 2023.

The union won the November election with 63 percent, with more than 85 percent voting. The union committee is Nurses for Nurses, part of Teamsters Joint Council 43.

The campaign was a response to staff cuts, unsafe practices, and worsening benefits, nurses said, after local hospitals were bought out by a conglomerate, now known as Corewell.

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