Category: Healthcare

Labor Organizing In 2024: No Safe Harbors

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | May 6, 2024 | Healthcare, Hospitality, IAM, Independents, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Leadership, Manufacturing, Retail, SEIU, Service Industry, Shawn Fain, Starbucks, Strikes, Trader Joe's, Trader Joe's United, Trader Joe's United, Trending, UAW, Union Leaders, Union Leaders, Union Organizing, Unions, USSW, White-Collar

We increasingly see that no industry or business sector remains immune to union activity in 2024 and beyond.

Healthcare And AI: Will Fear Of Nursing ‘Bots’ Aid Or Harm The Already Stressed-Out Profession?

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Mar 28, 2024 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Healthcare, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight

Tech leader NVIDIA has joined forces with a startup called Hippocratic AI to develop voice-based healthcare “agents” that will cost “$9 per hour” (far less than the hourly RN rate in all markets) and can dispense limited health advice via chat sessions that act as patient assessments.

Healthcare Checkup: Machinists Ramp Up Their Poaching Efforts, Nursing Home Workers Coordinate Strikes

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Mar 13, 2024 | Healthcare, Healthcare, IAM, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, SEIU, UAW, Union Organizing, Unions

Last fall, the burgeoning CVS and Walgreens employee walkouts highlighted how the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) is edging into healthcare by organizing retail pharmacy professionals.

Healthcare Headaches: Senior-Living Facilities, The New Joint Employer Standard, And The Tasks Ahead

Posted by Kimberly Ricci | Jan 10, 2024 | DOL, Healthcare, Healthcare, Industry, Labor Relations Ink, Labor Relations Insight, Legal, NLRB, Strikes, Union Organizing

Healthcare will soon be required to adhere to a broader joint employment standard – meant to streamline unionization processes at greater cost to businesses – that will increase employer liability.