GHC patients have made it clear, with a unanimous vote, that they stand shoulder to shoulder with their caregivers. As a cooperative where members stand “at the top of the leadership chart,” GHC’s Board should respect membership’s vote by voluntarily recognizing our union, effective immediately. To do anything else is unthinkable in any cooperative that claims to be democratically run.

At a mass meeting Monday at the Alliant Center in Madison, members of Group Health, sometimes called GHC for short, passed a motion directing the co-op to voluntarily recognize the union as the employees originally petitioned in December — covering three departments and a series of health care professionals.

With a deadline to recognize the union by Friday, we’ll know very soon whether GHC — after a half-century of existence — is still a democratically run cooperative that antiracist progressives can admire.

Health workers, patients and supporters gathered outside Alliant Energy Center ahead of a GHC board meeting in which administrators said they would hear perspectives on the topic of worker unionization from member-owners of the cooperative.

THE CAP TIMES - GHC has called a special member meeting to hear from members about staff forming a union to bargain collectively. Seventy percent of primary and urgent care workers filed for an election last December. This is our opportunity to tell the organization what we, as the owners of GHC, want them to do on our behalf.

THE CAP TIMES - As President of the South Central Federation of Labor, Wisconsin AFL-CIO, I’ve seen what union-busting looks like, and GHC has joined the ranks of Amazon and Starbucks.

THE CAP TIMES - I believe GHC nurses when they tell me their management, led by Mark Huth, has been silencing, intimidating and overworking them. It's plain as day that GHC management, again led by Huth, deliberately hired an expensive anti-labor attack-dog law firm.

THE CAP TIMES - I have been a member of Group Health Cooperative (GHC) for 25 years, and I care about our cooperative. I was deeply disappointed with the July 27 opinion piece by Mark Huth, CEO of GHC (“Group Health encourages unionization vote.”)

THE CAP TIMES - GHC CEO Mark Huth’s July 27 op-ed, “Group Health encourages unionization vote,” was misleading, to say the least.

THE CAP TIMES - Mark Huth’s July 27 piece ("Group Health encourages unionization vote") is so full of partial truths and outright fabrication it is hard to know where to start.

WISCONSIN EXAMINER — A union organizing campaign has turned into a contentious conflict at a Madison-based health care nonprofit.

WSJ OPINION — I urge GHC administrators to stop wasting resources on union-busting lawyers and recognize the primary and urgent care workers who have filed for a union.

WPR — Dispute between union, primary care center goes into seventh month.

WKOW — Group Health Cooperative workers in Madison picketed Friday, claiming that GHC is involved in illegal union-busting activities.

WORT — On May 31, after a five-day walkout, nurses represented by SEIU Wisconsin announced a contract settlement with Madison's Meriter hospital.

THE CAP TIMES — Some leaders at Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin have recently promoted union-busting tactics. This dynamic hurts me. But we are all human and we are all scared of change, so I'm still ready to work with management on moving forward. I ask our leaders to take a breath, take a beat, change course, and embrace the union that filed for recognition several months back.

THE CAP TIMES — By refusing to honor the aspirations of the majority of primary and urgent care workers, GHC flagrantly betrays its own stated mission and values.

It is high time we united and insisted that GHC do better.

THE CAP TIMES — Down the street from UnityPoint Health-Meriter Hospital, workers at Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin are fighting management for union recognition.

WORT — Workers at Group Health Cooperative held a press conference yesterday pressuring higher-ups to recognize their union.

WKOW — A group of 35 local, elected leaders sent a joint letter to Group Health Cooperative (GHC) of Southern Central Wisconsin, accusing the employer of union busting and delaying a union election for a group of more than two hundred doctors, nurses and other staff.

WKOW — Lawyers for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Wisconsin local and Group Health Cooperative (GHC) of South Central Wisconsin spent part of Monday debating how many workers within the organization should be included in a forthcoming unionization vote.