Last month, we wrote to you about the hospital industry's nightmarish plan to increase profits by sending sick patients home to receive “care,” instead of at the hospital where they belong.

But that’s not the only part of their “Home All Alone” scheme. They are taking it a step further: The industry is trying to take a page out of Uber’s playbook and attempting to misclassify nurses as independent contractors and turn these jobs into gig work. 

We know what this is all about: increasing profits at the expense of professional caregivers and quality patient care. They want to outsource care from registered nurses to less-trained, non-union health care workers (or even worse, onto untrained and unpaid family members).       

To learn more about this dangerous scheme and why it matters in our fight to win Medicare for All, will you join us for the second webinar in our Summer 2022 Public Education Webinar Series, ‘Uber for Nurses? The "Gigification" of Health Care’?

As we’re fighting for Medicare for All, we’re not just fighting for guaranteed health care for all — we’re fighting for every patient to have high-quality, direct, hands-on care of registered nurses and other professional caregivers. The “gigification” of health care would do just the opposite, and we have to fight back. 

On this special public education webinar, we will hear directly from experts with National Nurses United’s Education Department, as well as our special guest speakers: Zenei Triunfo-Cortez, RN, NNU President; Lorena Gonzalez, incoming Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the California Labor Federation; Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UC Hastings; and Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago. 

During the webinar, we will:

• Look at how the hospital industry's quest to maximize profits by automating and relocating care from hospitals to the home opens the door to shifting more nurses and health care workers into a precarious gig-worker model. 
• Examine the implications for quality of care, job quality, and worker power as a result of these shifting circumstances.
• Explore how the "gigification" of health care is a symptom of the fundamental difference between the corporate, for-profit model and the care-driven model of Medicare for All that the nurses envision.

If you don’t want to miss this essential discussion about the next battleground for the future of health care, please RSVP here for our webinar that’s just 8 days away.

Hope to see you there, 

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

P.S. To bring awareness to “Home All Alone” schemes, we created a video that illuminates just how dangerous these programs can be for patients. Please take two minutes to watch it here.