Category: Healthcare

Nurses Strike and COVID-19 Vaccine Controversy Continues

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Jul 22, 2021 | Healthcare, Industry, Strikes, Union Organizing

Covid-19 CDC Mask Guidelines Continue to Evolve While Vaccination Mandates Cause Controversy

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Jun 24, 2021 | Healthcare, Industry

CDC guidelines, company mandates and employee lawsuits are generating a storm of confusion and anger. The expectation that President Biden’s OSHA policies would mandate masks in the workplace suddenly lost momentum when the CDC...

St. Vincent Nurses Strike Becomes Longest In More Than 10 Years

Posted by Phillip Wilson | Jun 24, 2021 | Healthcare, Industry

The St. Vincent Hospital Nurses strike is officially the second longest nurses strike in Massachusetts’ history and the longest nationally in more than a decade. The main issue between nurses and Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare...

AFSCME Local Placed In Emergency Administratorship And Michigan Healthcare Union Pres Pleads Guilty

Posted by Phillip Wilson | May 27, 2021 | Corruption, Healthcare, Industry, Unions

An AFSCME local has been placed under “emergency administratorship” after its local leadership has repeatedly been unable to make dues payments to the International. This means that the International is going to run the show for...

Strikes Pending for Connecticut’s Long-Term Care Employees

Posted by Phillip Wilson | May 27, 2021 | Healthcare, Industry, Strikes

Connecticut’s long-term care employees threw down the gauntlet earlier this month, threatening to take 3,400 workers out of 33 nursing homes on strike. Governor Ned Lamont’s administration reached an agreement with union leaders...