Report Finds Hospitals are Padding Bills, Saddling Patients
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that hospitals are adding billions of dollars in facility fees to patient bills, even when patients don’t set foot in a hospital. “Once an annoyance, the fees are now pervasive, and in some places they are becoming nearly impossible to avoid,” The Journal reports. Your union’s health plan…
Report Finds Hospitals are Padding Bills, Saddling Patients
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that hospitals are adding billions of dollars in facility fees to patient bills, even when patients don’t set foot in a hospital. “Once an annoyance, the fees are now pervasive, and in some places they are becoming nearly impossible to avoid,” The Journal reports. Your union’s health plan…
UAW President Calls Out the Real “Lazy” Workers
At a Senate Labor Committee hearing, UAW President Shawn Fain, fresh from his union’s recent contract wins in Detroit, spoke truth to power when he pointed the finger at who are the true “lazy” workers: the corporate class. It is common among right-wingers to spread the misinformation that those on the bottom are lazy and…
SUNY Downstate Hospital doctors, professors warn about plan to dismantle facility
SUNY’s faculty and staff union bolstered the fight against a plan to reduce or potentially close and transfer services at the existing SUNY Downstate’s University Hospital in East Flatbush on Tuesday by hosting a panel of people who are perhaps most directly aware of what these changes would mean: its faculty. The discussion led by…
Making America Great
Today, it’s difficult to imagine ten-year-old children working sixteen hours a day in dangerous conditions such as mines or textile mills with limited regulations, but in the nineteenth century, this was expected. Since colonial times, children were expected to work from very young ages, either for their families or for an outside employer. This meant…
The union gave her a shot at electrical work; NEW taught her to be an advocate
You often hear that workers find themselves in the construction trades because of a love of making things or working with one’s hands. For Racquel Hazlewood, it was her love of mathematics that ultimately led her to electrical work. “I always had a love for math. Like that I think was like the thing that…
Workers’ Bill of Rights: A One-Stop-Shop for Your Labor Rights in NYC
At the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, we enforce our city’s worker protection laws to help New Yorkers and their families thrive. But a key piece of protecting workers is ensuring that they are aware of the rights they are entitled to, so they know when and who to reach out to for…
Bechtel Partners With AFSP To Save Lives
Bechtel Corp, a provider of engineering, construction, and project management services, has committed $7 million dollars to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The construction industry has one of the highest suicide rates of any profession in the U.S. Suicides in the industry are five times higher than lives lost in jobsite safety incidents. The…
Medical Overbilling is Taking Money from Your Health Plan and Participants
If one of your health plan participants recently underwent surgery, visited an emergency room, or stayed in the hospital, chances are good your plan and member have been overcharged for the care. Chances are good as well that no one noticed or knew how to spot the unfair billing. Every day unions and employers use…
Medical Overbilling is Taking Money from Your Health Plan and Participants
If one of your health plan participants recently underwent surgery, visited an emergency room, or stayed in the hospital, chances are good your plan and member have been overcharged for the care. Chances are good as well that no one noticed or knew how to spot the unfair billing. Every day unions and employers use…