As more than 1,000 labor union activists gathered in Dearborn, Mich., last weekend for the biennial conference organized by the magazine, Labor Notes, a passionate argument between competing health care unions coursed through the meeting. But by evening, the dispute turned ugly and physical. And the stakes in the dispute cranked up another notch. On one side were nurses and leaders… return to article
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Reader Comments (1)Page 1 of 1 pagesBoo hiss. How is this article any different than the hue-and-cries of sex scandals?! This is a divisive article. Especially so given that ITT can’t seem to muster much coverage of labor organizing as it is. It only serves to highlight and underline one meme: “unions are unstable.” So what if there is this kind of dispute; there was no bloodshed, just rubber-necking.
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