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For Health Care Workers, The Pandemic Is Fueling Renewed Interest In Unions


Nurses at Albany Medical Center picketed on Dec.1, asking for more personal protective equipment. They say they re having to reuse N95 masks up to 20 times.
In September, after six months of exhausting work battling the pandemic, nurses at Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C., voted to unionize. The vote passed with 70%, a high margin of victory in a historically anti-union state, according to academic experts who study labor movements.
The nurses had originally filed paperwork to hold this vote in March but were forced to delay it when the pandemic began heating up. And the issues that had driven them toward unionizing were only heightened by the crisis. It raised new, urgent problems too, including struggles to get enough PPE, and inconsistent testing and notification of exposures to COVID-positive patients. ....

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