In a recent SHRM article, titled Union Organizing In Healthcare: What’s Driving The Surge?, Kimberly Ricci tackled three subjects of importance to healthcare employers:
- Nursing unions aren’t the only growers: an analysis of raw data from the past five years illustrates why employers watching only for RN organizing could miss significant activity elsewhere.
- Unit size matters: sure, petition volume might appear flat, but a significant shift in unit size points toward a strategy that’s startlingly similar across several unions targeting this industry.
- Thinking again about win rates: the healthcare industry’s 80%+ union win rate isn’t everything that it seems. There’s more behind that figure that employers will want to absorb, whether they’re staring down union activity for smaller units or potentially hospitalwide campaigns.
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Union Organizing In Healthcare: What’s Driving The Surge?
