Kaiser, one of the nation’s largest health care providers, has proposed a two-tiered wage and benefits system that would give newer employees lower pay and fewer health protections. The unions want Kaiser to abandon that plan. They also want 4% raises for each the next three years and a commitment to hire more nurses to relieve staffing shortages. Kaiser has offered 1% a year, with additional lump sums, and says it must reduce labor costs to remain competitive.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Kaiser health care workers in California, Oregon authorize strike
More than 24,000 nurses and other health-care workers at Kaiser Permanente in California and Oregon have overwhelmingly authorized a strike, threatening to walk out over pay and working conditions strained by the coronavirus pandemic.
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1% a year doesn't even keep up with inflation,let alone Current inflation
ReplyDeleteYou are in error, citizen. There is no inflation. None.
Delete- The Federal Reserve
Might the Federal Reserve Bankers need to be 'adjusted for inflation'?
Delete1% what a joke. It's always the workers who actually do the work that have to take the pay cut. I read somewhere where hospitals have more administrators than Doctors.
ReplyDeleteIn the 90s, hospital admin costs were 26% of the bill versus less than 10% in Europe. I can only imagine its gotten worse.
DeleteI had to take my wife to a hospital in Charlotte a few years ago. I won't name the hospital but Mercy me. It was more of a jobs program with the ....uhmmm ...you know representing about 95% of the help. The nurses tech's job was to put the plasticware on my wifes food try. I'm not lying. Came in one morning real early, the nurses tech was coming out of a room with a blanket around her and hair all muffed up. Gotta sleep sometime.
DeleteVote for Bidenomics, then piss and moan about inflation and demand raises? Got it.
ReplyDeleteEasy fix... ditch all of the insurance and go back to cash based medical. I know a few doctors on board and a crap ton of dentists and chiropractors.
ReplyDeleteGet rid of all of the drama and overhead and mandates. Fuck em all!
"Easy fix... ditch all of the insurance and go back to cash based medical"
DeleteThat's why we're getting rid of cash.
- The Government
They go on strike and one of my family suffers for it, I will do my best to pass that along, with interest.
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