SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio (WJW) — Two University Hospitals pediatric doctors who claim they were fired for trying to unionize joined a mass picket outside a UH facility in Shaker Heights on Friday morning.
The hospital system, however, said the doctors were terminated for improperly using a hospital app to access the contact information of thousands of UH workers in their attempt to organize.
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Fired pediatrician Dr. Valerie Fouts-Fowler told FOX 8 News from the picket line on Friday that more than 6,000 people have since signed a petition calling for the reinstatement of herself and Dr. Lauren Beene, who were terminated in June. Hundreds of others have mailed postcards to UH directors.
“When we were fired, thousands of patients’ lives were affected,” Beene told FOX 8 News. “Our patients suddenly found themselves without their primary care physician. That caused a lot of community outrage…