Prime Healthcare hospital employees unionize, to challenge recent layoffs.

COLLECTIVE bargaining; DISMISSAL of employees; EPIDEMICS; PRIMARY health care; SOCIAL workers; LABORATORY personnel; COVID-19

The article reports on the union formed by a group of medical workers at Prime Healthcare Services' Encino Hospital Medican Center in California. Topics covered include the members of the group who will join the Services Employees International Union Local 121 RN, a statement from the Encino Professionals' Union Organizing Committee about working on the front lines during the COVID-19 pandemic and the percentage of employees claimed to be retained by Prime Healthcare.