We ARE GHC WORKERS UNITED.
We need a new board.
Voting is now open in the 2026 election! Our union and patient advocacy group (GHC-MUST) have interviewed the candidates and endorsed the following for the Board of Directors: Hendrik Lai, Christopher Stroebel, and Elise Taft. We are also urging members to vote NO on approval of the 2025 Annual Meeting minutes. Watch the video and read the background history below for more information.
we are forming a union at GHC.
BACKGROUND: A BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR UNION CAMPAIGN TO DATE
Workers filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for their union in December 2024, and have faced a relentless antiunion campaign from GHC’s Board and administration since then.
During the course of 2025 a union election was delayed first when GHC contested workers’ chosen bargaining unit, and then to negotiate a resolution to the union’s numerous charges of Unfair Labor Practices against GHC. (These charges included violations of workers’ rights to organize, including using union activity as a factor in disciplinary actions against union leaders.)
In the meanwhile, our coalition has sought to change GHC’s antiunion stance. After electing new members to the GHC Board in June 2025, we successfully pressured GHC to hold a Special Membership Meeting on unionization in October of that year. Worker and patient members in attendance unanimously passed a series of motions directing the Board to voluntarily recognize the workers’ chosen union (motion #2), provide a detailed account of member funds spent on antiunion activity (motions #1 and #3), and hold a Special Meeting on the democratization of GHC (motions #4 and #5).
The GHC Board’s response? In December 2025 they passed a resolution rejecting every single motion.
Our coalition then began using provisions in GHC’s Bylaws to remove the GHC Board Chair and nominate new candidates to the Board via member petition. Longtime GHC Bylaws provided that 100 members could trigger a vote of the membership on removal, as well as directly nominate Board members. Well over a hundred members signed each of these petitions.
The GHC Board’s response? At a March 19, 2026 Board meeting – with no notice to membership, and in closed session – the Board rewrote the Bylaws, making it nearly impossible for members to nominate candidates for the Board or to remove a Board member, effectively centralizing power in the hands of the eleven-member Board. They then rejected the signed member petitions, citing the new rules they had passed. (GHC’s new Bylaws are here.)
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
