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SEIU's Proposed Hospital Ballot Measures Getting National Attention

By NIGEL JAQUISS

Service Employees International Union's proposed 2014 ballot measures in Oregon and California may be the vanguard of a national movement.

In October, Oregon's SEIU Local 49 filed five measures in Salem aimed at greater transparency around prices and outcomes, minimum levels of uncompensated care and compensation caps for executives. 

Although it is unclear how many if any of those measures will make the ballot, The Wall Street Journal reported today the measures may be in part a tactic to organize more hospital workers.

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