Right to Work Foundation Offers New Insights to University of Pennsylvania Medical Students Looking to Unionize

From The College Fix

Patrick Semmens with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation told The Fix in an emailed statement that “[o]nce a union gains power in a workplace, we’ve seen many healthcare workers quickly realize that union control is not right for them.”

Semmens said workers realize this “only to find out too late that the process for removing a union is largely rigged against independent-minded employees.”

“Crucially, in the healthcare sector, union officials can issue strike orders during times when many healthcare professionals would prefer not to abandon their patients,” Semmens said. “In just the past couple years, Foundation staff attorneys have seen a marked increase in requests from healthcare workers for legal assistance in getting votes to decertify unions and remove them from their workplace, but the [National Labor Relations Board] rules often make it difficult just to hold such a vote.”

“These healthcare professionals often cite divisive union-ordered strikes and union officials’ prioritizing of politics over patients as reasons for why they want to end union officials’ so-called ‘representation,’” he said.

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