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85,000 healthcare workers are voting to authorize a strike. If they do, it will be the largest healthcare strike the nation has ever seen.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/1800056

The union strike would impact dozens of Kaiser Permanente facilities across seven states and Washington, DC, affecting millions of patients.

85,000 healthcare workers are voting to authorize a strike. If they do, it will be the largest healthcare strike the nation has ever seen.https://www.businessinsider.com/kaiser-permanente-healthcare-workers-union-strike-vote-labor-reform-covid-2023-8Open linkView original on lemm.ee
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sh.itjust.works
  1. But what does that have to do with a healthcare strike happening now?
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lemmy.world

Kaiser is a badly run healthcare agency that pinches its pennies so tightly its CEO died young of a cardiovascular condition

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timespacereply
sh.itjust.works

That’s quite a leap. What evidence do you have to support such a statement?

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timespacereply
sh.itjust.works

As a Kaiser member, I know and understand all of that.

My question is specific to the death of the CEO and the claim that penny pinching killed him.

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lemm.ee

Same. Good for these workers, but private health insurance shouldn't exist in the first place.

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85,000 healthcare workers are voting to authorize a strike. If they do, it will be the largest healthcare strike the nation has ever seen. | Spyke