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Strikes like the massive one threatened by Kaiser Permanente’s California blue collar workers last month could be a sign of what’s to come for the broader healthcare sector.

Long-term care’s worker shortages are leading to creative solutions and new partnerships in western New York, where a skilled nursing company is working with its local union and an education cooperative...

Ben Franklin famously assured us life has two guarantees. They are higher taxes and death. If Ben were alive today and owned a nursing home, he’d probably add a third: Unions will ruin everything.

Nursing homes that are unionized are more likely to report workplace injury and illness information, according to a new study. Adam Dean, PhD, a professor of political science at the George Washington...

The National Labor Relations Board gave skilled care operators another kick to the gut Friday.

Unions pump $50M into refreshed ‘Care Can’t Wait’ campaign … Staffing agency discriminated against job seekers based on race, sex and disability: EEOC … Walking 25 minutes a day is enough to...

Leaders of two major unions brought out the top brass and dug deep into their ranks so that nursing home staff, family members and a current resident could share the ways understaffing has affected them...

With Labor Day upon us again, I think it’s as good a time as any to offer a suggestion that might fuel improvement.

Nursing home workers at the 142-bed Comprehensive Rehabilitation & Nursing Center at Williamsville in Williamsville, NY, are planning to picket Friday.

A major union made its long-term care strategy pretty clear in a recent blog. It wants more women to sign up. But one of the piece’s assertions is unlikely to help much.