Nurses speak out in support for RaDonda Vaught in advance of sentencing hearing
Vaught faces up to eight years in prison after being unjustly convicted for a medical error she made in 2017.
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The decision not to sentence Vaught to jail was greeted with cheers from nurses who gathered outside the courthouse on Thursday.
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“Look to the health care system for being at fault”—Health care workers continue to voice support for victimized nurse, RaDonda Vaught
The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health care system.
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Growing outrage over victimization of Nashville nurse RaDonda Vaught
The WSWS is organizing the working class to defend RaDonda Vaught and all health care workers against victimization for the crisis of the for-profit health system.
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“We’ve all suffered the same way”: Striking Cedars-Sinai Medical Center workers speak out
The striking healthcare service workers are fighting for safe working conditions, improved staffing and better wages.
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Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
UK nurse testifies about life on a COVID ward: “There was a general feeling that we were expendable”
The following testimony to the Global Workers Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic has been submitted by a Senior Health Care Assistant in a busy hospital in the north of England. The nurse normally works on a gerontology ward caring for the old and infirm and those suffering from dementia.
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Kentucky nurse on the crisis in health care: “Hospital policies should be committed to patient care, not stockholders’ portfolios”
The World Socialist Web Site received this letter from a nurse in Kentucky describing the transformations in hospitals, the exploitation of nurses and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nurses speak out on mental health crisis: “We are witness to those who suffer without the support needed to survive ourselves”
The tragic death by suicide of a nurse at Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Clara Medical Center in Northern California has provoked an outpouring of sympathy, anguish and justified anger at the health care system.
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Nurses begin indefinite strike in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Health workers at all six university hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia have been on strike against staff shortages since May 4.
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Turkish doctors mount nationwide strike as prices explode
Amid unprecedented inflation and falls in living standards due to the pandemic and the Ukraine war, Turkish doctors have organized a two-day nationwide strike.
Ulaş Ateşçi•
Sri Lankan president mobilises military with orders to shoot on sight
The extensive deployment of the state’s repressive machine shows that Rajapakse is systematically preparing to take on the working class now moving into struggle to defend its rights.
K. Ratnayake•
Health care workers strike at Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai Medical Center
The strike, which is being trivialized by the union as an “Unfair Labor Practice strike,” raises issues of political power and socialism.
Rafael Azul•
Beth Salazar•
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John Braddock•
Hugo Maltais•
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Over 100 monkeypox infections detected in 10 countries as unprecedented outbreak spreads globally
An unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox virus has officially spread to nine countries outside of Africa, with 101 cases reported as of this writing. Confirmed or suspected cases have been identified in the United Kingdom (9 cases), Portugal (34), Spain (32), France (1), Belgium (2), Sweden (1), Italy (3), Canada (17), and the United States (2).
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More than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in New Zealand
New Zealand has gone from having no COVID deaths for most of the pandemic, to now having one of the highest weekly death rates in the world, as a result of the Labour Party government abandoning its elimination policy.
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Covid rips through US schools during sixth surge
The mass infection policies enforced by the federal government have left teachers, staff and students entirely unprotected in schools as cases surge.
Renae Cassimeda•
As US daily COVID-19 cases surpass 100,000, White House makes clear that it will take no serious action
The refusal of the American government to do anything to address the latest surge of COVID-19 underscores the basic truth that the fight against the pandemic will only be taken forward by the working class.
Evan Blake•
Dylan Lubao•
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