health care
End the 24-hour workday: NYC home health workers begin hunger strike
March 20, 2024These workers, mostly women of color, do it all—cook, clean, change diapers, administer medicine, and more—and they do it 24 hours a day.
Read moreCare quality declines when hospital privatizes for profit
January 26, 2024The health outcomes after discharge are even worse.
Read more85,000 Kaiser Permanente workers begin voting on ‘landmark’ new pact
October 18, 2023$25 minimum wage for health care workers in Calif., $23 elsewhere.
Read moreProfits before patients: Corporate control, burnout force private sector MDs to unionize
October 17, 2023Crushed by short-staffing and insurance company paperwork, doctors at Minnesota’s Allina health facilities are going union.
Read moreIsrael tells Gaza health workers: Get out, we’re about to bomb your hospital
October 16, 2023Doctors say an evacuation is impossible and patients face death if Israel carries out airstrikes.
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