A second nurse has joined Tonya Battle in filing a lawsuit against Flint hospital Hurley Medical Center. Carlotta Armstrong claims that, like Battle, she was subjected to racial discrimination when administrators complied with a blatantly racist father’s demand that no African American nurses care of his baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
Details on this and more after the jump.
Tonya Battle is a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurse at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan. Last year on Halloween, she was caring for a baby in the NICU unit. The baby’s father, approached her, and asked to see her supervisor. What happened next is right out of the early part of the 20th Century racist south.
The man demanded that no African American nurses care for his baby. Not only that, the hospital complied. They are now being sued by Tonya Battle.
Details after the jump.
My mother was an early feminist in the late 70s/early 80s. She marched on Washington, D.C. for the Equal Rights Amendment. My first “activism” action was to join her and a handful of other ladies on a road trip for a similar march in Chicago where Bella Abzug and Gloria Steinem and many other leading feminists spoke.
And we always had Ms. magazine hanging around. When I was around ten years old, I read Ms. magazine all the time. It had a significant impact on my perceptions about women and how they are viewed and treated in society.
Yesterday, a post we put up was linked and photos we took were posted at Ms. magazine’s website in a piece titled “The War on Women, Michigan Front”.
She would have been very proud of that.
But there’s something she would have been even MORE proud of, I think.
It’s just another episode in a long, long string of episodes where some Michigan Republican men can’t get into any sort of back and forth with a woman without whipping out the sexist derogatory slurs. This time, it’s state House Representative Frank Foster.
While visiting the neighborhood of a Michigan Nurses Association staffer, he called her a “cunt”.
The Michigan Nurses Association are the cutting edge of activism once again. Check out their latest events (and, yes, YOU are invited):
MIDLAND – Since Congressman Dave Camp of Midland has denied multiple requests to hold a public town hall to listen to residents’ input about the decisions he will make on the supercommittee, members of the Michigan Nurses Association will do it for him Monday evening.
While failing to hold a public town hall for his constituents since his appointment to the supercommittee – including this week, while Camp was home during the congressional break – Camp has collected hundreds of thousands of dollars for his re-election campaign from Wall Street corporations and special interests.
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The University of Michigan Professional Nurse Council (UMPNC) has been in contract negotiations with the University of Michigan for over six months. The University has been holding firm on not making any significant concessions which is making the possibility of a strike by the 4000 unionized nurses more and more likely.
I have a friend who is a U of M nurse. She told me, “I have voted Republican my whole life. But now it seems like they just want to screw us. It’s not fair. We work hard and deserve to be treated with respect and to be paid a fair wage with good benefits.” It’s clear to me that the statewide Republican effort to demonize unions is starting to convert some former Republicans to the Democratic party which is far more supportive of their position.…
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