By Doug Cunningham

What would Jesus do? Workers struggling to form a union to improve their wages and working conditions at Catholic-owned Resurrection Health in Chicago believe he would be with them in their fight for a union and justice on the job. Shirley Brown has been a housekeeper at Resurrection Health for eleven years and makes $10.70 an hour.

[Shirley Brown 1]: “You're workin' short-staffed, you get yelled and screamed at, you get disrespected. You don't have a voice in the workplace at all, period. The disrespect and intimidation and harassment - it is real and that is what is happening in these hospitals. And it shouldn't be that way."

At a recent rally the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees gave a one million dollar check to help fund the organizing effort at Resurrection. Shirley was thrilled.

[Shirley Brown 2]: “It was so electrifying, just to hear employees speak out about what's going on. And then to have McEntee to give that million dollar check."

Shirley believes the Catholic church owned Resurrection Health needs to search its soul to end the suffering of its workers.

[Shirley Brown 3]: "One lady brought me to tears when she told me that she was makin' $8.25 an hour and to have her two kids on her health insurance that she had to pay $250 a month. And she had to make a choice between feedin' her family, keepin' a roof over her head or droppin' her health insurance. And she had to drop her health insurance. That brought me to tears."