Organizers say corporate efforts to quash a union actually galvanized workers to overwhelmingly vote for one.
Newly unionized providers at Unity Healthcare, Washington D.C.'s largest federally qualified health Center, take part in a rally to protest unfair labor practices in Washington D.C., on May 11, 2024.Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings took part in a groundbreaking union election this month.
However, with hospital administrations increasingly feeling themselves obligated to cut costs wherever possible on everything from equipment to skilled labor to serve the purposes of investment returns, a new market has been pried open. Now, a hospital lab’s responsibilities can be outsourced to one of a few properly equipped private companies.
New spates of health care organizing, however, are far from limited to the Oregon-Washington area: In concert with the neoliberalization of health care and the corresponding corporate-driven degradation of conditions, physicians, who until recent times were rarely unionized in the U.S.,. In other words, the Labcorp drive is only the latest outgrowth of a labor organizing ferment.
Meagan Hollis is a medical laboratory scientist at the blood bank at Legacy Health’s Good Samaritan facility, one of the seven Labcorp sites that unionized. In an email to, she shared a little more about her role as a frontline essential worker providing a critical, lifesaving service, and what drove her and her coworkers to band together:
“I had to go to three meetings, and I was pulled out for about an hour and a half each meeting — to listen to themus,” said Sisson, with acrid sarcasm. “It created a lot of frustration. It almost helped solidify us more. We came in with a plan: Weall these people around, so let’s use these meetings to our advantage, and kind of fact check — and also bring our issues and see how they respond to it.
As the latter point evidences, the series of events that recently swept through Northwestern Labcorp locations contained few surprises, save for perhaps the completeness of its victory — with, again, 86 percent of Labcorp employees voting to unionize. The landslide probably came as quite the shock to the corporate overseers who had paid a premium for the anti-union consultants.
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