Tag: Nurses strike
Health care workers strike, with 75,000 walking off the job Wednesday
About 75,000 Kaiser Permanente workers launched a strike on Wednesday at hospitals and medical centers across five states and Washington, D.C., the largest walkout by health care workers in U.S. history. Tina Reed, a senior…
Striking health care worker says she’s doing the work of 3 people: “We’re burned out”
Kaiser Permanente health care workers say executives are “refusing to listen” to their bargaining points as Day 2 of their strike ensues. Christina Andersen, a Kaiser phlebotomist, lays out the priorities for the 75,000 people…
35,000 Kaiser Permanente workers set to go on strike
35,000 members of the Alliance of Health Care Unions, a coalition of 21 local unions representing over 52,000 workers at the healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente in states around the country, have set a strike date….
How Massachusetts nurses waged a 10-month strike
Read the transcript of this video: https://therealnews.com/an-oral-history-of-the-10-month-st-vincent-hospital-strike The COVID-19 pandemic and the corresponding failure at every level of government to prevent its spread dealt a devastating blow to healthcare workers. Nurses, doctors, and other medical…
