eBook: The Ultimate Guide to Strike Contingency Planning
The Reality of Today’s Labor Market Labor actions have emerged as a potent force capable of creating significant challenges in patient care, financial stability, and public reputation. Foresight and planning are key for healthcare leaders. Fortunately, you can prepare in advance with The Ultimate Guide to Strike Contingency Planning . In this guide, you will discover valuable insights and strategies for uninterrupted care and learn how to choose the ideal workforce partner to maintain operations. Healthcare labor actions are changing at an unprecedented pace—an acceleration supported by hard numbers. Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates an uptick in work stoppages: from 1993 through 2021, hospitals experienced 84 work stoppages, averaging one every 4.1 months. However, this frequency has intensified since 2022, with 15 stoppages in just 21 months through early October, decreasing the gap to an average of 1.4 months between each occurrence. 1 These are not ordinary fluctuations, and as leaders, we need to pay attention to this warning.
The COVID-19 Era: A Catalyst for Change The COVID-19 pandemic served as a tipping point for many healthcare workers – amplifying issues such as work hours, pay scales, conditions, challenges to their mental health, and the nurse-to-patient ratios. The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) echoed the sentiment, encouraging more efficiencies to improve employee relations. 2 Insight from our RN Survey underscores these issues, with 30% of nurses reporting that they plan to leave nursing due to strains from the pandemic. 3
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