The American workplace has undergone major changes brought on by financial crisis, recession and cost-cutting measures. Despite job losses across many industry sectors, health care industry employment has increased by 8 percent since 2007. Unions in the health care industry have thrived, making inroads into hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care services like never before. In fact, union membership in health care has risen by more than 200,000 workers since 2005.
How have health care labor organizations managed to buck the nationwide trend toward deunionization? This report examines the trends, strategies, and events that have made the health care industry one of the country’s most volatile organizing battlegrounds, and analyzes the issues that will continue to shape the industry for years to come.
Union Organizing in the Health Care Industry gives you insight into the issues and motivations behind the increase in organizing activity and includes:
The steady membership gains in the health care industry that unions have posted over the past two decades could grow even higher in the years to come. Order your copy of Union Organizing in the Health Care Industry today!