Card-check legislation is expected to surface this Congress, and the Obama administration appears to be leaning in favor of such a bill.

Four advocacy groups launched a $1 million advertising blitz on Tuesday urging President-elect Barack Obama to focus on healthcare reform during his first 100 days in office.

Anti-union workers at a nursing home in Canton, New York, have ousted the Service Employees International Union from their facility, according to local reports.

Elected officers at the Service Employees International Union's largest California chapter are out of their posts after the U.S. Labor Department charged the local's leaders with violating labor laws.

While the nursing home industry can be proud of its accomplishments in Washington over the last year, many challenges await. These include card-check legislation in Congress and a problematic five-star rating system, Bruce Yarwood, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association, said Monday at the 59th Annual Convention & Expo's Opening General Session in Nashville.

While executives were hobnobbing at the National Investment Center for the Seniors Housing and Care Industry conference Thursday, just across the street seven members of the Service Employees International Union held signs criticizing assisted living provider Atria Senior Living.

It appears that anti-union activists are upping the ante to discredit the labor movement.

The last day of the McKnight's Online Expo will begin this morning with a discussion of how long-term care providers can use information technology to their financial advantage.

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision later this year on a case involving a California law that prohibits employers from using state funds to influence union elections.

Nursing home workers at the Altoona Center for Nursing Care in Altoona, PA, recently have renounced union representation after presenting a petition to facility owners. But the SEIU is continuing its struggle to unionize the employees.