Little Rock Probably surprising none of the organizers involved or anyone looking at the campaign, the vote count on the rerun decertification election between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) produced the same result with a wider margin as Kaiser hospital workers in California overwhelming voted for …
Category: Health Care
Reading the Tea Leaves on Huge SEIU-NUHW Decert in California
New Orleans First come the disclaimers. I have no stomach for this 5 year saga in California that has created a huge rift in the labor movement as folks picked sides between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the National Union of Healthcare Workers’ (NUHW). Depending on how you line up, NUHW is either …
Study Finds Hospitals Are Paid More for Worse Care
Little Rock Atul Gawande is best known to many of us as a doctor who writes important articles about healthcare in the New Yorker magazine. To his patients he is known as a good surgeon in Boston, and to other surgeons, he is also known as someone who advocates and develops simple checklists for other …