We ARE GHC WORKERS UNITED.
The current GHC Board has repeatedly proved itself opposed to the most basic cooperative and democratic principles. We need to hold Board leadership accountable and send a message that the cooperative is run by its members. That's why we’re launching petitions for GHC members to remove the current Board Chair, and nominate three prodemocracy, prounion candidates.
BACKGROUND:
At a GHC membership meeting on Monday October 13, 2025, a broad coalition of workers and patients UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution demanding that the GHC Board and administration voluntarily recognize the union workers have chosen. They also passed resolutions directing the organization to be transparent regarding money spent on the antiunion campaign, to follow the organization’s Bylaws and membership directives, and to hold a Special Meeting on the democratization of GHC governance.
In December 2025 the Board explicitly rejected every single one of the resolutions members passed at the October meeting.
We are calling on GHC members who believe in democracy for the cooperative and in the workplace through unions to replace the Board today!
We need a new board.
As frontline healthcare workers, we are deeply committed to our patients and the community we serve. By forming a union — an organization of, by, and for GHC healthcare workers — we will have a strong collective voice to make GHC an even better place to work. We joined GHC because we believed in its co-op model that champions patients’ voices. We are certain that unionizing will advance democracy and our organization’s core mission of serving its members.
we are forming a union at GHC.
WHY?
Like Amazon and Starbucks, they have used union-busting attorneys and weaponized the Labor Board to dilute our support and delay our union election so they could run a scorched-earth antiunion campaign.
Since we filed for an election, GHC administrators have waged an aggressive union-busting campaign.
From the beginning, we have championed the idea that we should have the right to decide for ourselves what our union looks like, and how we bargain with our employers – not GHC administration.
But under the guise of wanting to protect “democracy,” GHC management and their lawyers at the Husch Blackwell firm have pursued a legal strategy that has overridden the interests of 70% of primary and urgent care employees who want a union. Internally, they have also waged an aggressive union-busting campaign. Finally, administrators have engaged in dozens of violations of federal labor law (Unfair Labor Practices, or ULPs).
BECAUSE OF THEIR UNION-BUSTING STRATEGY, A FAIR ELECTION IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE.
How has GHC MANAGEMENT BEEN FIGHTING OUR UNION?
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In 2023, just 11% of employers forced their workers through unnecessary and expensive hearings at the Labor Board. GHC joined this group of antiunion employers in 2024.
The end result? Using members’ money to pay high-priced lawyers at the Husch Blackwell firm to pursue months of hearings in front of the Labor Board. Here, GHC administrators successfully overrode the expressed interests of 70% of primary and urgent care employees who want a union.
This has forced hundreds of workers into a bargaining unit they did not explicitly ask for, and diluted union support overall. Along the way, GHC intended to use the Trump Labor Board and this case to make it harder for workers not just at GHC, but across the country, to organize – a tactic more extreme than even Amazon or Starbucks has advocated.
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Administrators have continually issued misleading communications and told workers that our union will somehow disempower us as workers, and that we are likely to negotiate worse benefits, or we will lose some of our current benefits and working conditions, through the collective bargaining process.
The GHC Board has refused to meet with workers, and rejected feedback from concerned members.
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Retaliating against union leaders. Throwing away union resources. Holding mandatory employee meetings at which administrators denigrate our union. Pervasive administrative surveillance at work. And more.
We have now filed dozens of Unfair Labor Practices against GHC’s antiunion actions. These actions have created a hostile and intimidating workplace where we have been inhibited or prohibited from freely exercising our rights.
GHC administrators have now committed so many Unfair Labor Practices that a fair election is no longer possible.
