Mental Health

The labor friction escalates: coordinated pickets over the Timpani AI scheduling system

2026-08-12 · part of HCA's AI Scale-Up

What happened

1199SEIU held coordinated pickets across 19 HCA Florida facilities on 2026-08-12, including rallies at HCA Florida Osceola Hospital (Kissimmee) and HCA Florida Woodmont Hospital (Tamarac), continuing contract negotiations. The union's stated issues are pay (HCA offering 2.5% vs. inflation-tracking demands) and the Palantir-co-developed AI scheduling system Timpani, which the union says caused unauthorized schedule changes, wage losses, and improper PTO denials — the first multi-facility escalation this thread has logged past a single protest. (Hoodline, WUSF, CF Public)

Sources 3

Hoodline hoodline.com unrated
WUSF wusf.org unrated
CF Public cfpublic.org unrated

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The wider story

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