You must be clear about what you wish to accomplish and how you wish to get there. There are many types of union organizational forms. Business unionism restricts your activities to bread and butter issues and allows the employer to determine how healthcare is delivered. Social unionism includes professional issues and the form of delivery of healthcare as well as economics and standards of living. Analyze Your Work Environment and Create Strategies of Mutual Support with Other Health Care Employees.
Corporate healthcare has one goal and that is profit.
It will turn every physician position it can into an RN and it will make every RN an aide if it can. It will contract out aide work and all other work so employees do not have the ability to establish standards. That is the model borrowed from the worst of the industrial sector. We oppose the deskilling of the medical profession as we do the deskilling of the RN and other care provider positions. This is not the case in some other unions and professional associations.