The writer, a Los Angeles freelancer and former Detroit News business reporter, who blogs at Starkman Approved.
Corewell Health CEO Tina Freese Decker, who fashions herself as an “authentic” leader but is anything but, boasted on a little watched podcast that her leadership is predicated on being “effective and engaged, especially as a listener.”
If listening is Decker’s strong suit, she’d be wise to make an emergency appointment with a Corewell audiologist because she apparently didn’t hear the deafening union drumbeats of Metro Detroit Corewell nurses who are mad as hell and aren’t prepared to suffer their working conditions anymore.
The Teamsters on Friday petitioned the NLRB to organize more than 9,600 nurses working at Corewell East, a once nationally respected healthcare network formerly known as Beaumont Health. During the seven years of leadership under former CEO John Fox, Beaumont’s patient care precipitously declined because of aggressive cost cutting and layoffs, while Fox pocketed some $50 million in compensation…