At that time, health care workers had every reason to hope that once the Covid-19 pandemic waned, long-overdue and much needed changes to our health care system would finally materialize.
We drifted back to our old normal in which health care workers felt unsafe, unappreciated and unsupported.
This helps explain why more than 75,000 workers at the Kaiser Permanente health care system have walked off the job, in what union leaders say could be the largest health care strike in U.S. history.
Similar to Hollywood writers and actors and the United Automobile Workers, the striking Kaiser workers are demanding better pay and benefits.
The changes they want require a major overhaul of how health care is delivered.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Kaiser Permanente, Hollywood, United Automobile Workers, Kaiser, District of Columbia, Bureau of Labor Statistics
Locations:
New York City