Everyone stand down with no job until we work this out…
McGinnis told lawyers for both health systems they should try to work out a temporary agreement by the end of the day Friday about the employees’ status until Monday’s hearing.
Otherwise, he said, the order prohibiting them from going to work at Ascension would be final until a further ruling was made. That means the seven health care workers would not be working at either hospital on Monday.
The idea that the former employer could prevent them from working period (in the short term) because that organization’s leaders decided if they can’t have them then nobody will is scary. That a judge is enabling this makes me wonder about their background, campaign contributions (they’re elected in WI), etc. Is it weird that none of the reports mention this judge’s name? 
This idea of controlling workers beyond their terms of employment and against state law needs to die in a fire. Remember the accusations of poaching and lawsuits over the development of self-driving cars? All those fights over limiting industry non-compete clauses in contracts? Corporations in pursuit of greater profits in any industry would just love for the courts to back them up on tactics like this.
