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NYC teachers and nurses shine a light on the state of schools and hospitals as we near two years of the pandemic. Can workplace organizing stave off collapse and win a transformative political agenda?
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About one in five health-care workers has left their job since the pandemic started. This is their story—and the story of those left behind.
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.
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