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Teamsters shut down Genesys nurses’ strike after isolating it for more than a year
Nurses on the picket line at Henry Ford Genesys Hospital in Grand Blanc, November 2025. After being isolated by the Teamsters union on the picket line for 411 days, the nearly 700 nurses and case workers of Henry Ford Genesys Hospital, in Grand Blanc, Michigan, outside the industrial city of Flint, have “ratified,” under duress, a contract that leaves in place the very conditions they walked out to change.
Determined Richmond, California Chevron workers join global movement against spiraling cost of living
The situation confronting 600 striking Chevron oil workers in Richmond, California, encapsulates the irrationality of the capitalist system: Skyrocketing oil prices greatly enrich a tiny layer of executives and shareholders who add nothing to the production process. But this same rise in the cost of living makes it harder and harder for workers who actually refine the oil to fill their own cars with the gas they need to drive to work.
US health care workers speak out as COVID-19 continues to fill ICUs and overwhelm hospitals
The unprecedented explosion of COVID-19 cases throughout the country this winter is continuing to strain every sector of workers, including health care workers on the frontlines. Burdened by the cumulative toll of all previous surges, exhausted health care workers are speaking out about the conditions they are facing with the spread of the Omicron variant.
New California guidelines push COVID-infected health care workers back to work
As of January 8, California health care workers who test positive for COVID-19 or are exposed to someone with COVID-19 but remain asymptomatic must return to work immediately without any quarantine or repeat COVID-19 testing. Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers rally last year. (Source: Twitter/MorePerfectUnion) This updated guidance was released by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) in an emergency letter and is in effect from January 8 to February 1, 2022.
US health care workers forced to work while infected with COVID-19
Registered nurse Morgan Flynn prepares to enter a patient's room in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) The US health care system is on the brink of collapse as waves of patients infected with the Omicron variant meet a rapidly shrinking health care workforce as they seek treatment. Doctors, nurses and other workers are exhausted by their unsafe working conditions.
Almost half of cancer patients in the US deplete entire life assets by second year of treatment
Almost half of cancer patients in the US deplete entire life assets by second year of treatment By Katy Kinner 31 January 2020 After a colon cancer diagnosis, Deb Genetin, a 57-year-old resident of Springfield, Ohio, just outside Dayton, was denied a life-saving surgery at Mercy Health hospital because, in the words of the hospital, her “financing wasn’t in place.” Genetin has not had health insurance in 10 years and makes only $20,000 a year as an administrative assistant in a law firm.
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