Skip to main content

Nurses picketing outside Sparrow Hospital say new contract amounts to a pay cut

By Lansing State Journal  
   November 04, 2021

Hundreds of nurses, pharmacists and supporters flooded a stretch of Michigan Avenue between Sparrow Hospital and its attached administrative building. They marched in a loop as cars passed, honking in support, and chanted: "Sparrow, Sparrow, you can't hide, we can see your greedy side."

A union representing Sparrow’s caregivers, a category of workers that includes nurses and pharmacists, staged the informational picket Wednesday decrying the hospital’s proposed contract as essentially amounting to a pay reduction while patient numbers rise.

Full story

Tagged Under:


Get the latest on healthcare leadership in your inbox.