Are Hospitals Conspiring to Fix Nurses’ Wages?

Class action lawsuits allege anticompetitive activity.

• Topics:
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Courts
• Published:
  1. The American Journal of Nursing, November 01, 2007
• Metainfo:
  • 410 words
  • 13.7 inches

It seems counterintuitive that, in the midst of a nursing shortage, employers would lowball nurses’ wages. But recent antitrust litigation in U.S. courts alleges that some are doing just that. In May the U.S. Department