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The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) will host an online meeting on the way forward for the 15,000 striking New York nurses and the 31,000 striking healthcare workers in California and Hawaii at 7:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday, February 10.
A change is underway which is penetrating ever deeper into the working class. After 40 years of suppression of the class struggle, following the defeats imposed in the 1980s, the working class in the United States is beginning to move again.
The lawsuit is an implicit threat that the stream of money the union apparatus receives through the Labor-Management Partnership may be turned off if it cannot get its membership back in line.
On the one hand, the strike has won immense public support, but on the other, NYSNA is preparing a sellout on management's terms. The strike can be won, but only if healthcare workers take matters into their own hands.
The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare 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.
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.
The RDC leadership, headed by Dr. Jack Fletcher, called off the walkout before members had any opportunity to examine the proposed agreement. Doctors were informed by email on Saturday evening, barely 24 hours before the scheduled strike action and only provided highlights.
Chicago nurses at Prime Healthcare's Saint Mary of Nazareth voted overwhelmingly to unionize. The win against a for-profit chain with a long record of obstruction opens a longer fight over the road ahead.
NHS FightBack calls on GPs in England to vote NO in the referendum and reject the BMA’s privatisation blueprint for General Practices; government attacks must be answered by the demand for full funding.
Health Minister Mark Butler rejected calls for delays in implementing changes to the NDIS, as a rushed Senate inquiry reveals what the cuts mean.
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.
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.
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
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.
