A group of about 30 Corewell Health nurses chanted, “Who are we? Teamsters!” as they marched Friday from the union’s headquarters on Trumbull Avenue in Detroit, where former Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa once negotiated labor deals before his 1975 disappearance, toward the National Labor Relations Board on Michigan Avenue.
There, they delivered three bankers’ boxes full of cards signed by thousands of registered nurses from all eight of the health system’s metro Detroit hospitals and its Southfield Service Center.
The cards, they say, show substantial support to unionize roughly 9,600 registered nurses working full-time, part-time, and on a contingency or flex basis, including charge nurses, at the hospitals in Dearborn, Farmington HIlls, Grosse Pointe, Royal Oak, Taylor, Trenton, Troy and Wayne…