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The union representing 2,000 nurses and other medical workers at Sparrow Health System made a complaint alleging several unfair labor practices.

Health professionals at Sparrow Hospital will hold an informational picket on Nov. 3. There will not be a work stoppage.

The Detroit-based hospital system made the numbers public after a deadline passed for staff to get vaccinated. A dozen Michigan health systems were surveyed on staff vaccine rates, offering varying levels of transparency.

If the zoning change is approved, Sparrow wants to build a family medical practice and free-standing emergency facility on Jolly Road.

1:16 Tashmica Torok said a Sparrow Hospital department supervisor made a comment to her 17-year-old son while he was receiving his COVID-19 vaccine. “A person who had power over my son's vaccination made statements to him about becoming a police officer out of context, following multiple murders across the country of Black and brown people at the hands of police violence," she said. According to Torok, the supervisor went out of her way to let her son know that it's hard to be a police officer these days. She believes he was targeted because he’s Black. “We don't live in a world where e...