Category: Louisiana
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Hospital Price Transparency and its Implementation in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
It’s not just individual patients who are in the dark… Employers are in the dark. Governments are in the dark. It’s just astonishing how deeply ignorant we are about these prices. Martin Gaynor Summary A year after its implementation, the government’s price transparency regulation is failing. The government requirement that hospitals begin disclosing their prices…
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Personal Protective Equipment Delivery to Union Members
Our union members are on the frontlines of the pandemic – and many aren’t getting the PPE they need from their employers. This week, union leaders delivered PPE to nursing home and childcare workers in Arkansas and Louisiana.
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Local 100 Election Slate – 2020 to 2023
The Local 100 Executive Board acting as a Nominating Committee of the whole has completed and recommended a full slate making sure that all areas of the union are represented and all vacancies created by movements out of our jurisdiction are now filled. The slate is as follows: President Henrietta Collins (Human Development Arkansas –…
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Handling Employee Concerns and Protests During the Pandemic: Federal Law on Interference with Operations
From the National Review Monday, April 20, 2020 Work stoppages and disruption of operations are consequences of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. This GT Alert provides an overview of federal law regarding employee protections associated with work stoppages that protest safety in the workplace. Federal Laws That Protect Employees Who Stop Work or Interfere…
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Non-Profit Hospitals Accountability Project
After extensive research into nonprofit hospitals in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, the Nonprofit Accountability Project has released our findings and recommendations in a paper, “Charity for Whom?“ On September 24, we went to hospitals in New Orleans (Ochsner), Little Rock (St. Vincent), and Houston (Methodist) to call attention to the lack of charity care given…