CLEVELAND, Ohio — University Hospitals has taken punitive action against two pediatricians who were leading a push to organize UH physicians into a union, according to a news release from a group of organizing physicians.
The group, called Concerned UH Physicians, is led by the two doctors the group said were punished by UH, Dr. Lauren Beene and Dr. Valerie Fouts-Fowler.
The group, which aims to create a physicians union, characterized UH’s employment actions against Beene and Fouts-Fowler as “unlawful punishment” for their efforts to organize UH physicians, and advocate for patients…