Southern Iowa Healthcare Workers Trying to Unionize - Radio Iowa

Southern Iowa healthcare workers trying to unionize - Radio Iowa

Dozens of workers at six southern Iowa healthcare clinics are asking their employer to respect their right to form a union. The employees work at River Hills Community Health Centers in Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Keokuk, Centerville, Sigourney and Richland. They’re seeking safer working conditions, better wages and affordable health care. Cassie Dunlavy, a nurse practitioner at […]

Improving Health Care and Joining Unions - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Rhode Island AFL-CIO Patrick Crowley (a good friend of mine, I will mention for disclosure’s sake) and Karen Hazard write that the best way to improve healthcare outcomes given the system we have is for more workers to join unions. There are just over 500,000 Rhode Island based non-farm jobs in the state according to the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training. About 80,000 of these jobs are protected by collective bargaining agreements. …

Employees at six southern Iowa clinics hoping to unionize

(Radio Iowa) – Dozens of workers at six southern Iowa healthcare clinics are asking their employer to respect their right to form a union. The employees work at River Hills Community Health Centers in Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Keokuk, Centerville, Sigourney and Richland. They’re seeking safer working conditions, better wages and affordable health care. Cassie Dunlavy, a nurse practitioner at the system’s Ottumwa clinic, says patient care is suffering.…