On the surface, Michigan’s largest health insurance company – Blue Cross Blue Shield – has championed health precautions and safety throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
But behind the scenes, long-time employees are quitting and some have had panic attacks because of the company’s apparent apathy toward COVID-19 protocols, workers say.
Blue Cross Blue Shield sent almost all of its nonunion employees home at the start of the pandemic and they’ve been working remotely ever since. But the company’s 1,500 unionized employees haven’t been so lucky – while they were home for a couple days last March, they’ve been forced to work from the office ever since, according to the UAW local that represents Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan employees.
‘They don’t care’: Blue Cross bashed for making union employees work in person, skirting COVID-19 rules
