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awesomecooperlove · 5 months

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kp777 · 8 months

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By Jake Johnson

Common Dreams

Sept. 5, 2023

"We are prepared to do whatever it takes, even get arrested in an act of civil disobedience, to stand up for our patients," said one Kaiser Permanente worker.

Dozens of healthcare workers were arrested in Los Angeles on Monday after sitting in the street outside of a Kaiser Permanente facility to demand that providers address dangerously low staffing levels at hospitals in California and across the country.

The civil disobedience came as the workers prepared for what could be the largest healthcare strike in U.S. history. Late last month, 85,000 Kaiser Permanente employees represented by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions began voting on whether to authorize a strike over the nonprofit hospital system's alleged unfair labor practices during ongoing contract negotiations.

The current contract expires on September 30.

"We are burnt out, stretched thin, and fed up after years of the pandemic and chronic short staffing," Datosha Williams, a service representative at Kaiser Permanente South Bay, said Monday. "Healthcare providers are failing workers and patients, and we are at crisis levels in our hospitals and medical centers."

"Our employers take in billions of dollars in profits, yet they refuse to safely staff their facilities or pay many of their workers a living wage," Williams added. "We are prepared to do whatever it takes, even get arrested in an act of civil disobedience, to stand up for our patients."

Kaiser Permanente reported nearly $3.3 billion in net income during the first half of 2023. In 2021, Kaiser CEO Greg Adams brought in more than $16 million in total compensation.

According to the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, the hospital system "has investments of $113 billion in the U.S. and abroad, including in fossil fuels, casinos, for-profit prisons, alcohol companies, military weapons, and more."

Healthcare workers, meanwhile, say they're being overworked and underpaid, and many are struggling to make ends meet amid high costs of living.

"We have healthcare employees leaving left and right, and we have corporate greed that is trying to pretend that this staffing shortage is not real," Jessica Cruz, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, toldLAist.

"We are risking arrest, and the reason why we're doing it is that we need everyone to know that this crisis is real," said Cruz, who was among the 25 workers arrested during the Labor Day protest.

A recent survey of tens of thousands of healthcare workers across California found that 83% reported understaffing in their departments, and 65% said they have witnessed or heard of care being delayed or denied due to staff shortages.

Additionally, more than 40% of the workers surveyed said they feel pressured to neglect safety protocols and skip breaks or meals due to short staffing.

"It's heartbreaking to see our patients suffer from long wait times for the care they need, all because Kaiser won't put patient and worker safety first," Paula Coleman, a clinical laboratory assistant at Kaiser Permanente in Englewood, Colorado, said in a statement late last month. "We will have no choice but to vote to strike if Kaiser won't bargain in good faith and let us give patients the quality care they deserve."

A local NBC affiliate reported Monday that 99% of Colorado Kaiser employees represented by SEIU Local 105 have voted to authorize a strike.

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#california #kaiser permanente #health care workers #understaffed #unions

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socialjusticeinamerica · 7 months

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#labor unions #organized labor #strike #health care workers #fuck the GQP #fuck the oligarchs

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spacedocmom · 3 months

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom I believe your lived experience over what I read in a textbook at the Academy decades ago, and while I may use that textbook for reference in treating you, your information and consent are the most important factors. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 3:53 PM · Jan 17, 2024

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the-lady-maddy · 3 months

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unhingedechobean · 6 months

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HEY, HEALTHCARE WORKERS!

You lecturing me on the risks of not brushing your teeth when I tell you I haven't been able to due to being fucking bedridden due to a chronic Illness does the opposite fucking thing you think it does! Not to mention I have severe fucking sensory issues and other debilitating mental health issues! You think I don't already fucking hate myself because I can't brush my teeth? And also you don't get to have the fucking audacity to imply that my chronic heart, blood pressure, and neurological conditions could be caused because I "choose to not" BRUSH MY FUCKING TEETH.

IM FUCKING TRYING

BUT SOMETIMES I NEED TO PUT WHAT LITTLE ENERGY I HAVE INTO STAYING ALIVE

#tw vent #sorry im just pissed off #disabled #chronically ill #mental health #mental illness #pots #ableism #autism #health care workers

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roguesareth · 10 months

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So yall remember me bitching last month about the Cardiology BS, I have MORE BS :D they slapped me w/ a 500$ for the heart monitor. My INS doesn't cover it all even though I FUCKING WORK FOR THEM

500$ bill to be told its a condition that doesn't fit with what I'm experiencing past superficial symptoms (I still think it'd POTs or something else Dysautonomic they told me it was Vasovagal) and otherwise be immediately dismissed, after both the Cardio and Neuro did that whole condescending "we'll humor you but you have a vagina so whatever" the whole time

And that's AFTER having to wait over 6 months after my initial Neuro appt last year because they never bothered to schedule me (and then scheduled me w/o notifying me so of course I missed it, and then canceled a follow up b/c I hadn't gotten the tilt table they hadn't set up)

Then I get told none of my symptoms are a big deal, that the condition I supposedly have usually starts to get better in your 20s( I am 34 they have gotten worse. Couldn't even look to see if he got his patients age right) then expected to pay 500$ to a fucking company I work for

Obviously toss me something only if you can, I know everyone is kinda fucked right now. If you can't gimme a share?

Venmo: @/RogueChiroptera

#Mutual Aid #mutual aid request #medical bills #emergency funds #donate to my venmo #venmo #I personally think its #POTS #potsawareness #or something Dysutonomic #signal boost #medical debt #healthcare #health care workers

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butterflyinthewell · 8 months

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Dear healthcare workers who visit people in their homes,

If you give us a time window for your arrival and aren’t going to show, give us the fucking courtesy of a phone call.

My family wasted so many days waiting for people who don’t show up.

If you’re swamped, fine. TELL US YOU WILL NOT MAKE IT AND LET US RESCHEDULE.

Stop making us sit around, changing our routines and rushing to accomplish things only for all that stress and hurrying to be for nothing.

We’re tired, we’re burnt out and we have so little control of our lives already. Stop making it worse.

Just give us a fucking phone call, okay?

Sincerely,

A caregiver who is fucking tired and burnt out.

#actuallyautistic #HCW #health care workers #home health #swearing

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shorborno · 2 months

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#pets #pet care #dog care #gpstracker #health care workers #dog health #dog travel

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gwydionmisha · 1 year

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I am still angry about the Tories only giving health care workers a 1% pay raise in the worst part of the pandemic when they were overwhelmed and literally dying as a deliberate fuck you to them all.

The cost of living and heating in particular have skyrocketted in the UK. Tories are complaining that they cannot afford to pay ambulance drivers nurses, etc. a living wage.

I have to ask: Can they afford not to? Because driving people to quit isn’t going to fix NHS wait times. Asking year after year for more sacrifices from people this understaffed isn’t the solution. Actually paying people decently and reopening the borders to health care workers would be a good start to actually fixing things. So would actually funding the health service properly instead of asking for more belt tightening every year when it’s already down to the bone.

Tories are deliberately killing the NHS. They broke it. They refuse to fix it.

#NHS #Strike #Health Care Workers #Tories #News

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awesomecooperlove · 8 months

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#canada #dirty politics #corruption #immigration #healthcare #high prices #poverty #economy #health care workers

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raepritewrites · 2 years

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So here's a random question, which will most likely gather three notes as per usual, do you know what a phlebotomist is? Do you want to? Asking because I feel like talking about my job and I have no one to do so with atm 🙃

#phlebotomy #healthcare #health care workers #nursing #phlebotomist #q and a #idk #blow up my inbox #i guess #im bored okay

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socialjusticeinamerica · 6 months

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#labor unions #organized labor #strike #Kaiser Permannte #health care workers

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spacedocmom · 4 months

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Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Doctors who fail to take even simple, basic steps to protect their patients from airborne pathogens are failing at medicine. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked x5 2:55 PM · Jan 5, 2024