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Interfaith Worker Justice to Issue Report Exposing Workers' Rights Violations at Ascension Health
IWJ to Join Michigan Nurses, Teamsters and National Nurses United at Press Conference to Announce Report's Findings
Jul 12, 2010
DETROIT
DETROIT
On Thursday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m., Kim
Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, will be joined by International Brotherhood of Teamsters General
President James P. Hoffa and National Nurses United Co-President Jean Ross, RN,
in calling for Ascension Health to address its ongoing labor relations
problems in Michigan.
Interfaith Worker Justice will be releasing the report, "A Fall
from Grace: Workers' Rights Abuses at Ascension Health's Michigan
Operations" which details the results of an investigation conducted by
religious leaders this past May.
Interfaith Worker Justice, the nation's largest religious
advocacy organization focused on worker's rights, found egregious
violations of workers' rights based on interviews with workers and union
officials. The report examined ongoing labor relations problems at
Ascension's Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Genesys Regional
Medical Center in Grand Blanc, and St. John Macomb-Oakland hospitals in
Warren and Madison Heights.
WHO:
Kim Bobo, Executive Director, Interfaith Worker
Justice
Fr. Norman Thomas, Pastor, Sacred Heart Church
Sr. Cathey DeSantis, Detroit Catholic Pastoral
Alliance
Nina Bugbee, President, IBT Local 332 (Flint)
Technical bargaining unit worker from Genesys
Medical Center
James P. Hoffa, General President, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters
Jeff Breslin, RN, President, Michigan Nurses
Association
Donna Farrell, RN at Borgess Medical Center
Jean Ross, RN, Co-President, National Nurses
United
Joan Smith, Detroit Interfaith Worker Justice
WHAT:
Press Conference
WHEN:
Thursday, July 15, 2010
10:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
1000 Eliot Street, Detroit, Mich. 48207
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On Thursday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m., Kim
Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, will be joined by International Brotherhood of Teamsters General
President James P. Hoffa and National Nurses United Co-President Jean Ross, RN,
in calling for Ascension Health to address its ongoing labor relations
problems in Michigan.
Interfaith Worker Justice will be releasing the report, "A Fall
from Grace: Workers' Rights Abuses at Ascension Health's Michigan
Operations" which details the results of an investigation conducted by
religious leaders this past May.
Interfaith Worker Justice, the nation's largest religious
advocacy organization focused on worker's rights, found egregious
violations of workers' rights based on interviews with workers and union
officials. The report examined ongoing labor relations problems at
Ascension's Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Genesys Regional
Medical Center in Grand Blanc, and St. John Macomb-Oakland hospitals in
Warren and Madison Heights.
WHO:
Kim Bobo, Executive Director, Interfaith Worker
Justice
Fr. Norman Thomas, Pastor, Sacred Heart Church
Sr. Cathey DeSantis, Detroit Catholic Pastoral
Alliance
Nina Bugbee, President, IBT Local 332 (Flint)
Technical bargaining unit worker from Genesys
Medical Center
James P. Hoffa, General President, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters
Jeff Breslin, RN, President, Michigan Nurses
Association
Donna Farrell, RN at Borgess Medical Center
Jean Ross, RN, Co-President, National Nurses
United
Joan Smith, Detroit Interfaith Worker Justice
WHAT:
Press Conference
WHEN:
Thursday, July 15, 2010
10:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
1000 Eliot Street, Detroit, Mich. 48207
On Thursday, July 15 at 10:30 a.m., Kim
Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, will be joined by International Brotherhood of Teamsters General
President James P. Hoffa and National Nurses United Co-President Jean Ross, RN,
in calling for Ascension Health to address its ongoing labor relations
problems in Michigan.
Interfaith Worker Justice will be releasing the report, "A Fall
from Grace: Workers' Rights Abuses at Ascension Health's Michigan
Operations" which details the results of an investigation conducted by
religious leaders this past May.
Interfaith Worker Justice, the nation's largest religious
advocacy organization focused on worker's rights, found egregious
violations of workers' rights based on interviews with workers and union
officials. The report examined ongoing labor relations problems at
Ascension's Borgess Medical Center in Kalamazoo, Genesys Regional
Medical Center in Grand Blanc, and St. John Macomb-Oakland hospitals in
Warren and Madison Heights.
WHO:
Kim Bobo, Executive Director, Interfaith Worker
Justice
Fr. Norman Thomas, Pastor, Sacred Heart Church
Sr. Cathey DeSantis, Detroit Catholic Pastoral
Alliance
Nina Bugbee, President, IBT Local 332 (Flint)
Technical bargaining unit worker from Genesys
Medical Center
James P. Hoffa, General President, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters
Jeff Breslin, RN, President, Michigan Nurses
Association
Donna Farrell, RN at Borgess Medical Center
Jean Ross, RN, Co-President, National Nurses
United
Joan Smith, Detroit Interfaith Worker Justice
WHAT:
Press Conference
WHEN:
Thursday, July 15, 2010
10:30 a.m.
WHERE:
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church
1000 Eliot Street, Detroit, Mich. 48207
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