Sunday, March 4, 2012

Nurses claim harassment over union issue

Bernice Faulkner, a 35-year nursing veteran, joined more than two dozen nursing colleagues in a demonstration outside Stroger Hospital Monday.

The nurses said Faulkner and others were being retaliated against because they tried to drop labor representation by the Illinois Nurses Association.

Faulkner, 69, contends she is being harassed by the administration at the West Side facility because she's helping lead the charge to change unions at the hospital. After Monday' protest, Faulkner was scheduled to appear at a hospital disciplinary hearing.

"They say I don't follow directions and that I'm not living up to my position," she told the Defender. "But they're just doing …

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