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Code Red for Hospitals: Unions Find Receptive Audience in Weary Health Care Workers

January 5, 2024

by Chris O'Malley
Reporter, Law.com

At a time when unions are courting everyone from Amazon workers to Starbucks baristas, one industry may be ripe for organizing like no other: health care.

I don’t know of many industries where people were hit harder for a two-year period,” Kevin Carr, a partner and co-chair of the labor and employment practice at Spilman Thomas & Battle, said of the pandemic’s burden on health care workers.