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Tim Sheard[/caption]In his 6th Lenny Moss crime novel, A Bitter Pill, Tim Sheard unravels a new boss who has turned the hospital private and is trying to decertify the union in order to crush it and layoff a third of the workforce. At the same time, he's forcing unbearable working conditions on the nurses, who decide to join forces with the service workers and fight the attacks together. A Bitter Pill is a lovely story of solidarity and union building.
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Helena Worthen, Emeritus Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois, reviews at the UALE Digest:
"A Bitter Pill is a short, fast, tight book, giving us what we like best about Lenny Moss, hospital custodian and union steward. It's an awful situation: JamesMadisonHospital has been sold to a for-profit chain called Croesus and the boss, on a rampage to cut labor costs, has instigated a decertification campaign. Speed-ups result in injuries to patients but also spur an organizing campaign among the nurses, who are at first dubious about joining the service workers' union. In the midst of this, a hospital employee who is trying to escape the city — and his drug problem- is found hanged by the neck , an apparent suicide, except for what is revealed by the autopsy. What does his death have to do with the new regime at the hospital? Lenny Moss, the person everyone talks to, figures out what happened. Along the way he's suspended, beat up…This is a great book for labor studies students who want to experience the intensity of a big fight vicariously but realistically. The piling-on of stressors culminates in a happy ending when Lenny finally gets a night's sleep."
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