If the CKPU is unwilling to provide such information, which all members are entitled to know, then there is no reason to accept the claim that the contract was passed at all.
The fact that workers are being made to vote on a contract which they have not even seen is proof that it falls far below their demands.
Significantly, the summary makes no concrete points about staffing ratios at Kaiser facilities, one of the main demands of those on strike.
The central question posed by the strike is who will control the healthcare industry—the healthcare giants committed to profits or the working class committed to healthcare as a social right?
The World Socialist Web Site is assisting healthcare workers in the building of a network of interconnected rank-and-file committees.
Fill out this form to be contacted about joining the committee nearest you. If a committee at your workplace does not exist, we will help you build one.
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Montefiore Medical Center canceled Dr. Ghazal Moayedi’s presentation about abortion as a human right when administrators discovered that she had called for a ceasefire in Gaza on Instagram.
Over 80,000 people have signed a petition opposing the anti-democratic termination of Dr. Zaki Masoud by NYU Langone.
Healthcare Workers for Palestine - San Diego helped to organize a walkout and demonstration at the UC San Diego School of Medicine which took place November 9.
Healthcare workers across the globe are joining the mass movement against the continued genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
This video describes the current surge of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reviews the immense societal impacts of Long COVID and outlines a strategy of what must be done to end the pandemic. It has subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish and Italian.
The MNA’s termination of Singh expresses the broader political role of the trade unions to prop up the pro-war Democratic Party and suppress the growing opposition of workers to the economic and political situation.
The strikers are demanding pay increases and wage adjustments for inflation, improved visa and financial support for international researchers, better benefits and healthcare for fellows and increased transparency on authorship and intellectual property.
Having isolated more than 1,700 nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital for four months without strike pay, the United Steelworkers is preparing to sell them short with an inadequate agreement.
After striking Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Michigan workers have been kept in the dark for three months, the United Auto Workers bureaucracy is seeking to push through a proposed four-year agreement at ratification meetings on Tuesday.
In this video testimony, Catherine Pace’s family describes the working conditions which led to her death and the deaths of countless other autoworkers during the still-raging pandemic.
Ed, a retired auto worker, and Tammy, a retired care worker, have been “living with” COVID-19 for two years, and they’ve had enough.
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.
