The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the struggles of front-line healthcare workers including long-standing issues like staffing shortages and burnout.
Some workers have taken action through union organizing, picketing and strikes to secure new contracts with terms to quell challenges — especially regarding staffing levels.
National Nurses United is among the unions lobbying for federal staffing standards, arguing that safer conditions are needed to keep nurses from “leaving the healthcare field in droves” and making the crisis worse for workers who remain, NNU President Deborah Burger said at a Thursday press conference.
