I am a physician at the forefront of unionizing efforts at Group Health Cooperative in Dane County.
I have spent nearly 12 years as a family medicine physician at Group Health Cooperative — a tenure that has revealed a display of power where our basic rights are trampled in the name of “democracy.” In a setting where impossible workloads have become the norm — fueling high turnover and, most tragically, compromising patient care — we workers exercised our basic right to unionize. Our desperate call to join together, born of unsustainable conditions and the indifference of management, has been met with obstructionist actions that are not in the spirit of a true cooperative.
Instead of addressing these pressing concerns, GHC management has unleashed a barrage of anti-union propaganda, stoked divisions among our ranks and levied retaliatory discipline against those daring to stand up for our collective rights. Their efforts to avoid genuine dialogue have forced us into a legal labyrinth engineered by expensive anti-union attorneys and interminable hearings before the NLRB…