Why Is Rogers Behavioral Health Firing Highly-Qualified Caregivers?
Because They're
Standing Up
For Patient Care
Because They're
Standing Up
For Patient Care
Wisconsin Trusts Rogers to Serve People Who Desperately Need Help.
Rogers Has Violated That Trust.
Rogers Behavioral Health is one of the country’s largest mental health nonprofits. But over the past year, Rogers has cut care for patients — and hurt the people delivering it:
Cut individual therapy
Pushing patients into group treatment instead of the one-on-one care they need.
Eliminated caseload caps
Leaving nurses and therapists responsible for far more patients, with less time for each one.
Replaced therapists with A.I.
Producing a flood of inappropriate referrals from A.I. screening patients into the wrong treatment programs.
Salaried to hourly
Reclassifying clinicians — resulting in unstable schedules, lower pay, and fewer caregivers wanting to work for Rogers.
Rogers workers in Wisconsin organized a union to improve care and reverse changes that have made it harder for patients to get the services they need. Rogers responded by firing caregivers and spending hundreds of thousands of patient-care dollars on union-busting lawyers.
The Story
They Stood Up for Patients.
Rogers Fired Them.
Workers at Rogers clinics in West Allis and Madison began organizing with the National Union of Healthcare Workers in late 2025. Their goal was straightforward: safer staffing levels, a voice in the care they provide, and more time with the patients who depend on them.
Rogers retaliated immediately — illegally firing three workers (two nurse practitioners and a doctor) just days after they told management they were forming a union and asked for recognition.
The retaliation backfired. Workers at both clinics voted to join NUHW by a landslide. Rogers responded by firing three more workers after the vote — and is continuing to waste hundreds of thousands of patient-care dollars on lawyers running delay tactics to avoid sitting down with its workers.
The Timeline
WHAT ROGERS HAS DONE
AND WHEN.
2024-2025
Without input from workers, Rogers removes caseload caps, switches from individual to group therapy, and reclassifies caregivers from salaried to hourly.
Feb. 9, 2026
Rogers fires two nurse practitioners and a doctor at the West Allis clinic, days after workers asked management to recognize their union. NUHW files charges for illegal retaliation.
Feb. 2026
Twenty Wisconsin elected officials sign a letter demanding Rogers reinstate the workers, recognize the union, and bargain in good faith. Milwaukee, Madison, and Kenosha teachers unions join the call.
Apr. 2026
Rogers files a legal challenge trying to stop the election, but a federal judge rejects it. Rogers files an appeal that is also rejected.
Apr. 22, 2026
Workers vote 53–4 in West Allis and 26–4 in Madison to join NUHW. On election day, Rogers bars NUHW’s representative from the West Allis facility and suspends a worker for wearing a costume cape at lunch.
Apr. 27, 2026
Rogers fires three more workers after the election, including the worker who wore the cape — six fired in total. Rogers files legal challenges to block certification and delay bargaining.
May 2026
In its most outrageous act of retaliation, Rogers makes complaints to the state licensing board against two workers it illegally fired, threatening their careers.
2024-2025
Feb. 2026
Twenty Wisconsin elected officials sign a letter demanding Rogers reinstate the workers, recognize the union, and bargain in good faith. Milwaukee, Madison, and Kenosha teachers unions join the call.
Apr. 22, 2026
Workers vote 53–4 in West Allis and 26–4 in Madison to join NUHW. On election day, Rogers bars NUHW’s representative from the West Allis facility and suspends a worker for wearing a costume cape at lunch.
May 2026
Feb. 9, 2026
Rogers fires two nurse practitioners and a doctor at the West Allis clinic, days after workers asked management to recognize their union. NUHW files charges for illegal retaliation.
Apr. 2026
Apr. 27, 2026
Rogers fires three more workers after the election, including the worker who wore the cape — six fired in total. Rogers files legal challenges to block certification and delay bargaining.
Today
Worker Voices
In their own words
This is an outrageous and illegal act of retaliation that will leave patients with even fewer direct caregivers. Our goal in forming a union has been to improve care and reverse changes that have made it harder for patients to get the services they need.
Stephani Lohman
Nurse Practitioner
FIRED FEB. 9, 2026
We can’t help our patients to the best of our ability when we have no say in the care we provide. I’m going to fight to get my job back, and we’re all going to demand that Rogers respect our rights, follow the law, and bargain a contract that lets us provide the best possible care.
Kate Zolandz
MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIST
FIRED APRIL 27, 2026
The people I work with care very, very deeply about the work that they do and having a positive impact on the lives of patients. Caseloads increased and individual time with patients was decreasing. I became concerned about how that was impacting our being able to support those patients.
Erin Quinlan
BEHAVIORAL SPECIALIST, ROGERS MADISON
GET INVOLVED
STAND WITH ROGERS CAREGIVERS
Tell Rogers to reinstate the fired workers, recognize the union, and bargain in good faith for the patients who depend on them.