[lbo-talk] service coops

[Andrew Harrison-Cantrell]

The AFT, SEIU, the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership, and the
Wisconsin State AFL-CIO are actually working on creating a unionized
healthcare staffing agency that will very likely follow a co-op model. 
They've received Ford and Robert Wood Johnson (I believe) foundation money
for developing a business plan and for start-up costs.  The goal is to
organize contingent healthcare workers (since they're such a bi part of the
healthcare workforce these days) before they go to work for a hospital.  I
believe a pilot program is starting with the AFT Healthcare affiliate in
New Jersey within the next year or so.