Share April 04, 2021, 5:37 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved
By Eric Starkman Hey Detroit-area Reps. Andy Levin, Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell, you phony baloney labor advocates, here’s what unequivocal union support for
all workers looks like. Maine’s Democratic legislative leaders last month sent a scathing letter to Maine Medical Center (MMC), the state’s biggest hospital network, protesting the hiring of anti-union consultants for allegedly intimidating nurses to vote against joining the California Nurses Association. The letter, signed by Maine’s Senate president, the speaker of the House and 75 other legislators, demanded the hospital “fire the consultants” and respect RNs federally-protected right to organize.
Share March 08, 2021, 6:56 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman
Rep. Andy Levin Count Michigan Rep. Andy Levin among those who don’t believe that charity begins at home. The Democratic congressman, a member of the House Labor and Education Committee, spearheaded a letter signed by 50 colleagues to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos expressing their support for Amazon workers in Alabama to organize a union with the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union (RWDSU). Also, signing the letter were Michigan Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell. Support for Amazon’s Alabama workers comes from the top, as President Biden recently tweeted his support for the Alabama union drive and defended workers’ rights to organize.
Share March 02, 2021, 2:11 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved
By Eric Starkman
John Kerndl and Denise Waters Beaumont Health CFO John Kerndl, the architect of aggressive cost-cutting that bolstered the profits of Michigan’s biggest hospital network at the expense of its once world-class reputation, has resigned. He’s relocating to Boston to join Beth Israel Lahey Health System, a highly regarded hospital network. Beaumont CEO John Fox disclosed Kerndl’s departure in an email to staff this morning. Kerndl’s resignation is effective March 16, one day after the supposed Beaumont deadline for paying out executive bonuses for the previous year.
Share January 25, 2021, 9:29 PM
The columnist, a Los Angeles freelancer, is a former Detroit News business reporter who blogs at Starkman Approved.
By Eric Starkman The
inevitable tragedy Beaumont Health chairman John Lewis and Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel were warned about occurred last Thursday in the early afternoon: A 51-year-old man walked into the colonoscopy suite at Beaumont’s flagship Royal Oak hospital at 13 and Woodward thinking he’d be undergoing a routine screening and heading home a few hours later. Instead, the patient, the sole caregiver for his elderly mother, wound up in Beaumont’s basement morgue. Veteran employees at Beaumont s Royal Oak campus are both angered and saddened by the death, which they say was an expected medical catastrophe resulting from COO Carolyn Wilson’s money-saving decision last April to award Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia, a controversial low-cost outsourcing firm, a contract to manage anesthe