Despite Biden’s lies, the COVID emergency continues
The Biden administration’s plan to end COVID-19 emergency declarations is wholly unscientific and will have vast consequences for the American and international working class.
Evan Blake•
The struggle of health care workers
The growing global movement of nurses and health care workers
The response to the pandemic by capitalist governments, which prioritized profits over human lives, revealed and accelerated the breakdown of health care systems, which have been plagued by cost-cutting and understaffing for decades.
Jerry White•
Mass mobilization of nurses keeps RaDonda Vaught out of jail, but the battle must continue!
Nurses throughout the country should be proud of their display of solidarity behind RaDonda Vaught. Thanks to their intervention, Vaught is not behind bars. However, this is only the beginning.
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Strike actions by 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers to begin in early October
On October 4, 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are set to conduct a limited three-day strike, if Kaiser executives cannot reach agreement on the terms of new contracts.
Benjamin Mateus•
Kaiser workers vote overwhelmingly to strike, warn of a new influx of COVID-19 patients
The vote expresses a widespread desire to fight, after facing years of short staffing and COVID-19, while a new influx of patients is crushing healthcare systems.
Katy Kinner•
“We were there for them when they needed us throughout the pandemic, and now they don't want to pay us”
Kaiser healthcare workers demand sharp pay increases and safe staffing as strike authorization vote ends
The vote has the potential to lead to a strike of some 85,000 strong, the largest strike of healthcare workers in US history.
Our reporters•
Kaiser healthcare workers must prepare for their fight: Study betrayal of 2019
In order to prevent another sellout, the experiences of 2019, as well as other betrayals by the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions and Alliance of Health Care Unions, must be studied.
Katy Kinner•
Our reporters•
Adam Mclean, Tom Hall•
Jerry White, Kate Randall•
Evan Winters•
Kevin Martinez•
What must be done to end the pandemic
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.
Strike actions by 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers to begin in early October
On October 4, 75,000 Kaiser healthcare workers are set to conduct a limited three-day strike, if Kaiser executives cannot reach agreement on the terms of new contracts.
Benjamin Mateus•
Hospital workers in Bay City, Michigan protest starvation wages
Workers recently voted by 99 percent to authorize a strike, decisively rejecting the hospital’s latest contract offer.
Michael Anders•
Consultant psychiatrist speaks on UK’s joint junior-senior doctors strike
An NHS consultant said, “Ideally, I’d like to be seeing more actions taken across professions. I’m very much interested in general actions. Whether it’s with the railway workers, the postal workers, these are problems that are being felt because of the cost-of-living crisis across the board. I don’t see these problems as being relegated to single domains, as if our interests were somehow independent of other professions.”
Our reporters•
Australian health workers committee votes for active boycott of Voice referendum
The unanimous decision by rank-and-file health workers is a powerful lead to all those seeking a socialist alternative to the racialist policies of the Yes and No camps and their pro-capitalist agendas of austerity and war.
Our reporters•
John Braddock, Tom Peters•
Erik Schreiber•
Katy Kinner•
Tom Peters•
Erik Schreiber•
Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Family of Detroit autoworker who died of COVID-19 demands answers
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.
Jerry White, James Brewer•
“The worst is the fatigue, it feels like I have 500 pounds strapped to me”
Retired workers suffering from Long COVID in Flint, Michigan, speak to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 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.
Tim Rivers, Evan Blake•
"It's going to keep killing us, the ones who forcibly have to work."
Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Tim Rivers, Zac Corrigan•
“This is a warfare of the upper classes against the lower classes”
Health care expert Gregory Travis speaks on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, misinformation and the cover-up of data
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.
Evan Blake•
Zac Corrigan•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Richard Phillips, Cheryl Crisp•
Richard Phillips•
Evan Blake•
Build rank-and-file committees throughout the healthcare industry!
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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