Practices
Labor Strategies
Labor activity in the healthcare industry is again on the rise, particularly with Nurses Unions. A positive employee relations environment alone is not enough in today's aggressive union organizing environment. As unions struggle in their attempts to persuade employees to support organizing in a traditional election process, they have resorted to attacking the reputation of healthcare organizations in an attempt to pressure them to allow the union representation without interference. Determining the vulnerability to this type of "reputation attack" and developing proven strategies to thwart the effort is a particular expertise of our HR Consulting practice.
For over 30 years, our HR Consulting practice has been a nationally recognized leader in labor relations, partnering with numerous healthcare organizations to effectively diffuse an immediate issue, and prevent future union organizing efforts. Using our comprehensive knowledge and expertise in employee relations and the healthcare employee, we identify key concerns and develop effective communication and issue resolution strategies that maintain the organization’s ability to work directly with their employees, or, if already unionized, regain that ability.
”We credit our hospital's union-free success to many factors, not the least of which is Integrated Healthcare Strategies and specifically, the consultant we worked with. She has been many things to us: coach, cheerleader, advisor and friend, to name a few. The leadership tools the consultant provided us helped us grow along the way and will take us far into the future."
