Catalog Number : agkt1553
Title : Protecting Your Hospital's Union Free Status in 2009
Speaker : Kevin Troutman

Webplay Recording Date : 2-24-2009
Webplay Price : $ 150 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

The healthcare industry is the nation's second largest private employer. The demand for healthcare continues to increase. Moreover, most jobs in the industry cannot be automated or shipped overseas. It's no wonder then that unions are anxious to organizing more workers in hospital and other healthcare organizations. Despite recent infighting among some healthcare unions, organizers are employing increasing sophisticated and effective techniques. To make matters even more serious for hospitals, the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" (EFCA) is likely to become law during the coming year. EFCA will make union organizing easier and may fundamentally change what hospitals must do to remain union free. The Act is also likely to increase costs and threats that employers face in maintaining a union-free environment. In this Webinar, we will review employees' basic rights under current law, examine why and how healthcare employers join unions, the tactics that organizers use, what the unions have been up to lately, how EFCA is likely to change the landscape of union organizing, and what you can do to safeguard your hospital's union free status.

Target Audience:

• Human Resource Executives and Professionals
• In-House Counsel
• Administrators
• Information Technology Professionals
• Department Heads and Supervisors
• Others charged with preserving records that may be needed during litigation

Webinar Objectives:

• Understand the tactics unions have been using to try to convince healthcare workers to join their ranks
• Evaluate the impact of legislative and administrative changes that are likely to occur next year
• Develop and implement an effective plan to protect their union-free environment, regardless of changes that may be implemented

Webinar Outline:

• What have the Unions been up to recently?
  • Tactics and success rates
  • Battles among rival unions
  • What is like to happen next?
• Are the rules changing and will this mean to our hospital?
  • The employee free choice act
  • The respect act
  • Other legislative and administrative changes
• What can we do to preserve our hospital's union-free status?
  • Understand the new rules
  • Train and communicate
  • Developing a rapid response system

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 1.8 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.