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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A network of rank-and-file committees, comprised of nurses and other health care workers in every hospital and health care facility, must be built to coordinate a serious fight for safe staffing, wage increases, mental health services, a massive infusion of funds into the health care system and an end to the subordination of health care to private profit.
Vaught faces up to eight years in prison after being unjustly convicted for a medical error she made in 2017.
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.
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.
The striking healthcare service workers are fighting for safe working conditions, improved staffing and better wages.
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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.
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.
The WSWS Health Care Workers Newsletter fights to unite all health care 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.
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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.
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.
The strike, which is being trivialized by the union as an “Unfair Labor Practice strike,” raises issues of political power and socialism.
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