The individual strikes are important, but so many of them happening at the same time is the huge shift. It amounts to a significant, much needed course-correction of the US economy.
Tomorrow, 75,000 health care workers are set to strike at hundreds of Kaiser facilities across several states in the largest such strike in US history. Their primary grievance is low staffing levels, which unions say are hurting patients and workers alike. jacobin.com/2023/10/health-c…

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She's right. This is beginning to look like a movement. Credit to television and film writers for starting the ball rolling.
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I hope that they're also demanding and that they receive aggressive ventilation filtration + N95. Those will keep workers and patients healthier and less overworked.
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Didn't expect the green party getting involved yet...Where is Cornel🤔
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What is NEEDED is a general strike
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It's time to bring down the medical industrial complex.
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"What was needed was the economic and racial privilege we lacked to be put to work to protect us."