Nurses’ Union Conducts Biggest sStrike In NYC History
From today’s ABC 7 New York: The largest nurses’ strike in New York City history continues for a second day on Tuesday as the union is making allegations of “union…
Advocates Rally, Urging LCMC Health to Finalize Contract and Support Workers’ Rights
From today’s Big Easy Magazine: As negotiations between LCMC Health and NOLA Nurses United continue, nurses, patients, and community allies will rally outside University Medical Center (UMC) on Tuesday, April…
75,000 Kaiser Permanente Strike, Largest Health Care Worker Strike in History
From today’s CNN News: On Wednesday, more than 75,000 unionized employees of Kaiser Permanente, one of the nation’s largest not-for-profit health providers, walked off the job, marking the largest health…
Kaiser Health Care Workers Plan 3 Day Protest Across California
From today’s San Diego Union-Tribune: Kaiser Permanente Zion Medical Center in Grantville is among more than 40 facilities statewide that will be picketed this week in a worker demonstration billed…
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How You Can Protect Your Digital Privacy When and If Roe v. Wade Falls
From today’s Wired: A LEAKED UNITED States Supreme Court draft opinion published by Politico on Monday and soon after authenticated by Chief Justice John Roberts is a blaring signal that…
Uber for nurses?: California Initiative Targets Healthcare for a ‘Gig Work’ Law
From today’s MarketWatch: Healthcare, the nation’s fastest-growing industry, could be next in the push for laws to expand gig work. A measure filed this week with the California attorney general’s…
A Surprise Billing Law May Have Unintended Effects on Health Care
From today’s NPR News Online: Patients are months away from not having to worry about most surprise medical bills — those extra costs that can amount to hundreds or thousands…
Supreme Court ruling allows plan for religious limits to Obamacare contraceptive coverage
From today’s NBC News Online: The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation’s employers more leeway in refusing to provide free…
Employer-Based Health Care, Meet Massive Unemployment from Pandemic
From today’s New York Times: In the early months of 2020, Americans were engaged in the perennial election-year debate over how best to reform the nation’s health care system. As…
Thousands of health care workers are laid off as coronavirus spreads
From today’s Los Angeles Times: Healthcare workers, championed as heroes of the COVID-19 crisis and applauded for risking their lives to protect others, have been hit especially hard by the…