Yarwood: Five-star rating system, card-check legislation loom large
Oct 07, 2008
While the nursing home industry can be proud of its accomplishments in Washington over the last year, many challenges await. These include card-check legislation in Congress and a problematic five-star...
SEIU protest provides minor sideshow at NIC conference
Sep 12, 2008
While executives were hobnobbing at the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry conference Thursday, just across the street seven members of the Service Employees International...
Unions under fire: new ads underscore growing opposition to labor
Aug 01, 2008
It appears that anti-union activists are upping the ante to discredit the labor movement.
EXPO DAY 2: IT, unions on final day’s program
Mar 27, 2008
The last day of the McKnight’s Online Expo will begin this morning with a discussion of how long-term care providers can use information technology to their financial advantage.
Supreme Court takes up labor case
Mar 21, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision later this year on a case involving a California law that prohibits employers from using state funds to influence union elections.
Long-term care labor relations under the microscope
Mar 13, 2008
Nursing home workers at the Altoona Center for Nursing Care in Altoona, PA, recently have renounced union representation after presenting a petition to facility owners. But the SEIU is continuing its struggle...
Stern warning for private-equity firms
Mar 11, 2008
The leader of long-term care workers’ largest union on Monday defended his group’s aggressive actions late last year over the sale of the nation’s largest nursing home chain, Manor Care,...
Teamsters, SEIU back Obama
Feb 22, 2008
Two powerful unions, one of which represents a large number of nursing home workers, are supporting Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for president.
SEIU/UHW takes contract negotiations to the street
Feb 21, 2008
Union-affiliated hospital and nursing home care workers marched on the streets of Oakland, CA, Wednesday as part of an effort to raise the standards of healthcare delivery.