One of the many reasons employers want to keep healthcare private; enormous leverage against labor.
Even more reason to strike. Issue 1 in the demands: we still get healthcare when we strike
Employees threatened with loss of healthcare if they strike. Their employer is a hospital and they're nurses.
Submitted 8 months ago by pdxfed@lemmy.world to workreform@lemmy.world
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aesopjah@lemm.ee 8 months ago
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Once you cross a certain line, you might as well suggest burning down the housing and building a new one.
uis@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I wish they make their own hospital with blackjack and hookers.
XbSuper@lemmy.world 8 months ago
America, fuck yeah!
OrderedChaos@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Land of the free.
Assdddffff@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Is there a way to view this article without subscribing?
dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Open it on Mozilla and choose reader view?
wahming@monyet.cc 8 months ago
Archive.ph
pdxfed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Like most of whatever parent company or crappy site interface some mid-tier cities have, if you reload the page a few times it should give you the option to view? Maybe you got the adock popup, same thing, there is usually an option out. I’m not a subscriber.
jeffw@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not trying to say this is good by any means, but isn’t that typical for strikes?
blackluster117@possumpat.io 8 months ago
It might be the irony of the situation more than anything.
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hospitals want other employers to provide health coverage.
orcrist@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Employers have a lot of options. They can threaten to fire people in large numbers, they can threaten various things, but by specifically threatening to cut off health care, their trying to put the workers to a life or death decision. In other words, this particular approach is definitely immoral and unjustifiable.
rchive@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Healthcare can stay private as far as I’m concerned, but it certainly shouldn’t be provided by the employer. Just give me more cash and let me buy my own.
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The profit motive definitely deforms the structure of medicine and medical services.
A guarantee for coverage from private health providers is the system in many countries and is far better than the system in the US, but even considered globally, the domination of healthcare, or development, manufacturing, and distribution of technology and services through private corporations has led to a much bleaker world than might be imagined if medicinal systems were structured and practiced as a public good emphasizing human life as having the highest value.
Darkhoof@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s obscene. I hope the nurses teach them their place.
Desistance@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do it anyway.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Isn’t it illegal for an employer to retaliate against striking unionized employees?
unfreeradical@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Laws protect business, not workers.
MisterD@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
yes but the law has no teeth. The punishment is a strongly worded letter from a judge and a fine that is cheaper than paying an employee.
a General Strike is needed