La grève potentielle des travailleurs de Kaiser illustre un problème beaucoup plus important pour la main-dœuvre daujourdhui
This week, multiple sources reported that The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions is preparing to vote on a strike authorization. The coalition represents nearly 85,000 healthcare workers in Kaiser Permanente facilities across the country, one of the largest organized groups in the industry. The coalition exclaims that it is fighting for better working conditions, staffing ratios, and more equitable pay, among other things. It explains in an open letter: “After three years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there simply aren‘t enough healthcare workers to safely and properly care for patients. Even before the pandemic, we faced a healthcare worker shortage; now, it is becoming a full-blown crisis that threatens all aspects of patient care. Many of our co-workers have left and more are considering leaving as we continue to endure the emotional toll of the pandemic and a sense that our safety is not protected at work. At the same time, after everything we’ve been through, and as inflation squeezes our families, it is demoralizing to see retail, hospitality, and other sectors raising pay rates much faster than what were seeing in our hospitals and facilities.” Indeed, the healthcare workforce has changed significantly over the last decade, and the Covid-19 pandemic was an