2y ago

Employees threatened with loss of healthcare if they strike. Their employer is a hospital and they're nurses.

www.oregonlive.com

PeaceHealth says striking hospital workers could lose health insurance

One of the main reasons employers want to keep healthcare private; enormous leverage against labor, organized or not..

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Isn't it illegal for an employer to retaliate against striking unionized employees?
- Laws protect business, not workers.
- 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
This is precisely why public, non-profit, university hospitals are always superior.
- For profit hospitals are a historic aberration.
  
  That is probably not true if you look across the history of human civilization. I agree that it’s a recent development vis a vis growth in this area.
Even more reason to strike. Issue 1 in the demands: we still get healthcare when we strike
- Once you cross a certain line, you might as well be suggesting burning down the house and building a new one.
I wish they make their own hospital with blackjack and hookers.
America, fuck yeah!
- Land of the free.
Is there a way to view this article without subscribing?
- Open it on Mozilla and choose reader view?
- 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.
- https://archive.ph
That's obscene. I hope the nurses teach them their place.
Keep going. Fuck them.
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.
- The profit motive definitely deforms the structure of medicine and medical services.
  A guarantee for coverage, with most providers being private, is the essence of the systems in many countries, and is far better than the system in the US.
  Yet, even considered globally, our world has been made bleaker by the domination of healthcare, for development, manufacturing, and distribution of technology and processes through private corporations, the features of such systems including monopolies, patents, and private investment.
  We might try to imagine medicinal systems being structured and practiced as a public good, emphasizing human life as having the highest value.
Not trying to say this is good by any means, but isn’t that typical for strikes?
- It might be the irony of the situation more than anything.
  
  Hospitals want other employers to provide health coverage.

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