While Austin medics negotiate a labor contract, Hays County’s fight to unionize.
The front-line medics who provide emergency medical care to Hays County residents had hoped the board of directors at their nonprofit agency,, would voluntarily recognize their employees union. Like most health care workers, those at SMHCEMS are emerging from the height of a pandemic with a changed perspective on their work, and like workers across a multitude of industries, they are eager to harness the power a union could offer.
, a member of the union's organizing committee and a paramedic at the agency for the past year."There is not a lot of incentive for employees to stay in this kind of public service role when they can get a better quality of life in non-911 response jobs by leveraging their experience and credentials to work jobs with lower stakes and less stress."
Still, just one week after employees asked management for voluntary recognition, the agency's board authorized SMHCEMS Chiefto hire legal counsel to engage with the union's organizing committee on behalf of the agency. The chief, who declined to talk with us for this story, then hired Ted Smith, who formerly practiced at the notorious anti-union law firm. Smith then tried to stymie the SMHCEMS unionization effort.
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