UW Nurse Organizing For Better Working Conditions & Safer Patient Care
[Editor’s Note: The following is from the WDRT Monthly Review news round-up broadcast 2/7/20. — Ed.] By Mark L. Taylor WDRT / Commoner Call (2/7/20) In last month’s review we mentioned the unionization effort by the nursing staff at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics. With as many as 2,000 in the ranks of the nursing staff, this unionization effort would be one of the largest unionization campaigns in the state, especially since former Gov. Scott Walker gutted public union organizing with the Koch Brothers-inspired Act 10, back in 2011. As the Wisconsin Examiner noted in a recent update…