Dr. John Wust does not come off as a labor agitator. A longtime obstetrician-gynecologist from Louisiana with a penchant for bow ties, Dr. Wust spent the first 15 years of his career as a partner in a small business — that is, running his own practice with colleagues.
Long after he took a position at Allina Health, a large nonprofit health care system based in Minnesota, in 2009, he did not see himself as the kind of employee who might benefit from collective bargaining.
But that changed in the months leading up to March, when his group of more than 100 doctors at an Allina hospital near Minneapolis voted to unionize. Dr. Wust, who has spoken with colleagues about the potential benefits of a union, said doctors were at a loss on how to ease their unsustainable workload because they had less input at the hospital than ever before.
“The way the system is going, I didn’t see any other solution legally available to us,” Dr. Wust said.
I’m guessing at least one of them is some desperately sad person who regularly goes through my comment history and downvotes every post regardless of what I say. I could say “Hitler was evil” and they would downvote it. It’s kind of amusing.
I had that happened to me a few weeks ago, but they gave up after a week or so.
I think it’s so funny. Karma didn’t matter on Reddit much and it doesn’t matter at all here. Why do they care enough to make that sort of effort?
Them:
