We ARE GHC WORKERS UNITED.

WHY?

Like Amazon and Starbucks, they have used union-busting attorneys and weaponized the Labor Board to dilute our support and delay our union election so they could run a scorched-earth antiunion campaign.

Since we filed for an election, GHC administrators have waged an aggressive union-busting campaign.

From the beginning, we have championed the idea that we should have the right to decide for ourselves what our union looks like, and how we bargain with our employers – not GHC administration. 

But under the guise of wanting to protect “democracy,” GHC management and their lawyers at the Husch Blackwell firm have pursued a legal strategy that has overridden the interests of 70% of primary and urgent care employees who want a union. Internally, they have also waged an aggressive union-busting campaign. Finally, administrators have engaged in dozens of violations of federal labor law (Unfair Labor Practices, or ULPs).

BECAUSE OF THEIR UNION-BUSTING STRATEGY, A FAIR ELECTION IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE.

How has GHC MANAGEMENT BEEN FIGHTING OUR UNION?

  • In 2023, just 11% of employers forced their workers through unnecessary and expensive hearings at the Labor Board. GHC joined this group of antiunion employers in 2024.

    The end result? Using members’ money to pay high-priced lawyers at the Husch Blackwell firm to pursue months of hearings in front of the Labor Board. Here, GHC administrators successfully overrode the expressed interests of 70% of primary and urgent care employees who want a union.

    This has forced hundreds of workers into a bargaining unit they did not explicitly ask for, and diluted union support overall. Along the way, GHC intended to use the Trump Labor Board and this case to make it harder for workers not just at GHC, but across the country, to organize – a tactic more extreme than even Amazon or Starbucks has advocated.

  • Administrators have continually issued misleading communications and told workers that our union will somehow disempower us as workers, and that we are likely to negotiate worse benefits, or we will lose some of our current benefits and working conditions, through the collective bargaining process. 

    The GHC Board has refused to meet with workers, and rejected feedback from concerned members.

  • Retaliating against union leaders. Throwing away union resources. Holding mandatory employee meetings at which administrators denigrate our union. Pervasive administrative surveillance at work. And more.

    We have now filed dozens of Unfair Labor Practices against GHC’s antiunion actions. These actions have created a hostile and intimidating workplace where we have been inhibited or prohibited from freely exercising our rights.

    GHC administrators have now committed so many Unfair Labor Practices that a fair election is no longer possible.