Attacking Workers’ Rights
LCMC Health CEO Greg Feirn has squandered over a million dollars in attempts to prevent University Medical Center (UMC) nurses from forming a democratically elected union. According to the Department of Labor, in just a two-month period in 2023, LCMC spent $1.4 million on anti-union consultants to stop UMC nurses from organizing. Despite a barrage of round-the-clock captive audience meetings and misinformation, UMC nurses overwhelmingly voted to unionize at the end of 2023.
Since then, LCMC executives have continued to disrespect nurses’ right to collective bargaining, refusing to come to the table to address pressing concerns about patient care and staff retention. Instead, CEO Greg Feirn locked out nurses over Super Bowl weekend, replacing experienced nurses with temporary staff.
This lockout is a part of a long pattern of LCMC’s punitive behavior towards nurses choosing to join a union. Nurses at LCMC’s Children’s Hospital of New Orleans are facing harassment by management and are regularly pulled away from patients for disciplinary meetings that disrupt patient care. Last September, nurses at Children’s Hospital filed unfair labor practice charges against LCMC Health with the National Labor Relations Board. These charges allege egregious violations on LCMC’s part of RNs’ federally protected right to form a union. Nurses say more than 20 of their co-workers have been unfairly disciplined for organizing.
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