VPN Plus+ ExclusiveTech Talk: Unionization in the veterinary industryFebruary 27, 2025By Beckie Mossor, MPA, RVTUnionization in the veterinary industry is not a new concept, but it has gained increased attention in recent years. A few pioneering practices have successfully unionized, marking a shift in how the veterinary community views worker advocacy.
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VPN Plus+ ExclusiveUnions in Veterinary MedicineDecember 15, 2022This session: Unions are much in the news these days with high-profile campaigns at Amazon and Starbucks. Support for organizing and unions is at an all-time high. In this presentation, Liz Hughston, RVT, CVT, LVT, LVMT, VTS (SAIM)(ECC), president of the National Veterinary Professionals Union – a labor union dedicated to organizing in the veterinary profession – talks about the factors that lead many veterinary workers to want to organize, and the process of unionizing. She also discusses the rise of corporations in veterinary medicine and how that has contributed to workers’ need for unions.
Union label within the profession?January 25, 2018What’s in a word? If that word is union, as in labor union, plenty. For some, the word causes suspicion while others see work-life salvation. Early this year, a small grassroots movement of veterinary staff personnel, including associate veterinarians, mostly Seattleites, formed the National Veterinarian Professionals Union (NVPU).
