St. Luke's Health System in Boise, Idaho has hired three union-busters to conduct captive audience meetings in an effort to prevent workers from organizing with National Nurses United.
Captive audience meetings are mandatory meetings held by an employer during work hours in order to pressure employees against joining a union, interrogate workers about the organizing campaign, and disseminate union-bashing materials like videos and flyers.
The union-busters are Deborah Long, Christopher Catam, and Jon Varona of Texas. They are getting paid hourly. The average union-buster makes between $300 and $500 an hour.
All of them work for Healthcare Labor Solutions.
According to a report from Rochester Union of Nurses and Allied Professionals, "Healthcare Labor Solutions, Inc. has been paid millions of dollars to fight nurses and healthcare workers’ organizing efforts. Since 2014, they received $14.6 million in total payments from the hospitals and healthcare institutions that hired them"
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Published on June 13, 2022
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