Politicians, colleagues, and patients are defending two Cleveland pediatricians who were fired after they used an online directory to find co-workers to contact about a unionization effort.

The University Hospitals healthcare system says “the decision to terminate these two physicians had absolutely nothing to do with union organizing” and instead is due to their inappropriate accessing of private employee information.

But Valerie Fouts-Fowler, DO, and Lauren Beene, MD, claim they are victims of illegal retaliation and said they filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

“They fired us for using the phone book,” Beene told Medscape Medical News in an interview. “They’re trying to silence the movement by scaring other doctors by making an example of us.”

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