Health care workers are crucial to our society, yet we reward them with low wages and dangerous conditions.
“It is so disrespectful of the agencies and the employers to shunt these cases aside and not do everything possible to investigate the exposures,” said Peg Seminario, a retired union health and safety director.
“It is a shame – we have an important mission, regardless of COVID. Many SNF [skilled nursing facility] residents are and will continue to suffer and die without...repairs.”
Two Essentials for a Bright Future for Health Workers – Fast Track the Right of Healthcare Workers to Unionize and Transition to Medicare for All.
Do we want to provide care for the most vulnerable members of our society, or do we want this to just be a business where real estate owners are making money, and we don’t really care...
About a third of hospital emergency rooms are staffed by doctors on the payrolls of two physician staffing companies—TeamHealth and Envision Healthcare—owned by Wall Street investment firms.
...the super-capitalism of today has become an absolute fetter on the development of the productive forces necessary for our species survival.
One America News | John Oliver. John Prine | That's How Every Empire Falls. Heroes of the Coronavirus Pandumbic. Bernie Talks to Colbert About Health Care As a Human Right. We Clap Because We Care: New Yorkers Applaud Health Care Workers.
Every day at 7pm hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers stand at their balconies and windows to clap for three minutes for those working on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus
A majority of union members today now have ties to a government entity, at the federal, state or local levels. Roughly 1-in-3 public-sector workers is a union member, compared with about 1-in-15 for the private-sector workforce. The typical union worker now is more likely to be an educator, office worker or food or service industry employee rather than a construction worker, autoworker, electrician or mechanic. Far more women than men are in unions.
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