By Doug Cunningham

Labor is mourning the loss of Cheryl Johnson, President of the Michigan Nurses Association and United American Nurses, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. She was one of the few women ever to serve on the AFL-CIO’s Executive Council. For more than 30 years, Johnson worked in nursing and led at the local, state, and national level in her union. She was inducted into the Michigan Nurses Hall of Fame in 2006.