Right now, the health care industry is attempting to misclassify nurses as independent contractors and turn our jobs into gig work. It’s what we’re calling the “gigification” of health care — and it’s about nothing more than increasing profits by cutting labor costs for hospitals.

To learn more about this dangerous scheme and why it matters in our fight to win Medicare for All, will you join us for tonight’s webinar, ‘Uber for Nurses? The "Gigification" of Health Care’?

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Tonight’s webinar is the second in our Summer 2022 Public Education Series, ‘The Fight for the Future 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. It’s crucial that we learn about dangerous trends in the health care industry so we know how to fight back.

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.

We will also 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-Fletcher, 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.

We will not stand by while hospital executives put patients in danger for the sake of increased profit. You won’t want to miss tonight’s webinar, so please RSVP now to join us.

In Solidarity,

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All