WorkersFirst provides a matching platform that connects North America’s largest healthcare unions with local healthcare facilities to address staffing shortages. By leveraging an exclusive partnership with SEIU Healthcare, the platform enables unions to deploy their vetted, qualified workforce for flexible shifts, offering features such as revenue redistribution, benefits plans, and insurance coverage. This technology‑driven solution creates sustainable staffing pipelines while increasing earnings and job flexibility for workers.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Healthcare facilities across North America face chronic staffing shortages, leading to overworked staff, reduced patient care quality, and increased operational costs. Unions often have under‑utilized members who lack efficient channels to find flexible, short‑term assignments.
Solution
WorkersFirst offers a digital matching platform that links the largest North American healthcare unions with hospitals, clinics, and other care providers seeking temporary staff. The system aggregates a vetted pool of qualified union workers and presents available shifts through a modern, user‑friendly interface, enabling workers to select assignments that fit their schedules. By routing assignments through the platform, revenue from each shift is redistributed to increase worker earnings and to fund benefits such as insurance coverage. The platform’s data‑driven matching reduces gaps in labor supply, creating a sustainable staffing pipeline for healthcare organizations while preserving union labor standards.
Target Audience
Primary customers are hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare providers needing flexible staffing, as well as healthcare unions seeking to deploy their members into short‑term assignments.
Features
- Centralized marketplace that aggregates union‑affiliated healthcare workers and publishes real‑time shift opportunities
- Automated matching algorithm that aligns worker qualifications, availability, and location with facility needs
- Integrated compensation model that reallocates a portion of shift revenue to boost worker pay and fund benefit plans
- Mobile‑optimized interface for workers to browse, accept, and manage assignments on‑the‑go
- Compliance and credential verification tools ensuring all matched workers meet required certifications and union standards