While most industries are feeling the pressure of the recession, at least one group of workers will be assured jobs, no matter how stressful or poorly compensated they may be. For nurses, illness is the one thing that never goes out of style during a depression.
Now the nation’s two biggest nursing unions – the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the California Nurses Association (CNA) – are engaged in an old-school battle to secure members, and ground zero for that fight is Ohio…
This article appears in May 28 – Jun 3, 2008.