*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: A brutal summer for Philly hospital workers is driving nurses to fight for ‘successorship’ Author: Juliana Feliciano Reyes https://www.inquirer.com/author/reyes_juliana_feliciano/ Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

*Date:* Oct 23, 2019

*Summary:* Ensuring that a buyer will honor an existing contract is an important way to protect workers in a merger, which is in part used to cut labor costs, said *Rebecca Kolins Givan, a professor of labor relations at Rutgers University*. If two hospitals merge and one hospital pays its workers more or gives them better benefits, it’s standard for the hospitals to “harmonize” the standards to the lowest common denominator, she said.

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