Ascension likely won’t let them work while workers appeal, and I wouldn’t go back to ThedaCare who obviously think they are slaves or possibly indentured servants. The workers will win this case, the only question is how long that will take in the courts.
Outrageous
My uninformed guess is that the workers organized this in unison, including their ultimatum to match their offers or lose them all at once. Then, somewhere, somehow this is considered illegal in labor law? So then the judge told them they couldn’t accept the offers? They are thus not told that they can’t quit where they are, just that they can’t take advantage of their orchestrated action and accept these particular offers at the competing hospital?
Certainly this article is written so onesidedly as to not bother to provide the judge’s legal rationale. It is a case of being so slanted that it is not credible without explanation for the other side—and therefore unconvincing.
Next will be a ruling the “lord” will have the legal right to sleep with a betrothed young woman before her husband can do so.
We have boarded a time machine and are now back in the Dark Ages.
How can this be true especially in a such litigious setting? Medical workers like all other workers sign contracts before working. So, if this is the case, how did these seven work without contracts at the hospital "without contracts or obligations"?
No, something fishy is with this article. Something important is being deliberately left out as is the usual excrement that passes for journalism these days.
I would counter sue for damages of lost wages.
It is a 90 day injunction to allow Thedacare time to replace the 7 workers going to Ascension. They are being allowed to go, just not all 7 in an instantaneous block out of the 11 workers.
I have no clue the legality of it. In my world, you give 2 weeks notice and quit. If 7 workers want to do that, they can. It sucks for Thedacare, but that’s life.
In any event, this is not as described by the article. It is a bald-face lie for the article to print “The judge ruled the workers cannot quit. Wow!”. That is a blatant lie. This is a temporary 90 injunction, not a preventative measure. They are free to go to Ascension after 90 days, whether or not Acension finds replacements, but this gives Ascension 3 months to try.
https://news.yahoo.com/thedacare-asks-court-temporarily-stop-233725232.html
A Love the Old USSR Judge ?
There’s got to be more to this story. Why in the world would ThedaCare want them back.
Whatever unhappiness there was will spread like wildfire if they go back.
Wisconsin County Circuit Court Judge rules that health care workers are slaves.