Exhausted Massachusetts nurse drives off top of parking garage
The near-fatal accident at Boston’s Faulkner Hospital calls attention to the increasing problem of drowsy driving among nurses.
T. J. Garrison•
The struggle of health care workers
Build rank-and-file committees throughout the healthcare industry!
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Fill out this form to be contacted about joining the committee nearest you. If a committee at your workplace does not exist, we will help you build one.
Join the fight to end the subordination of healthcare to private profit!
Australian doctors rally US colleagues: Unite against Gaza genocide and imperialist war on July 24 in Washington
“The brutal assault on the Palestinian people is just one front in a global war instigated by US imperialism and its allies which threatens to escalate into a nuclear war.”
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An interview with public health expert Dr. Yara Asi on the genocide in Gaza: “What we’re seeing is a complete assault on every aspect of life”
The Palestine-born doctor, now working in south Florida, is the author of a new book on the health impacts of modern warfare.
Benjamin Mateus•
Health Workers Rank-and-File Committee in Australia demands the release of Ukrainian socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
“Socialist opponents of the Ukraine war are being demonised as traitors just as opponents of the Gaza genocide are being slandered as antisemitic and terrorist supporters.” – Dr Zewlan Moor
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Katy Kinner•
Evan Blake•
Shannon Jones•
Erik Schreiber•
Robert Milkowski•
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The WSWS Healthcare Workers Newsletter fights to unite all healthcare workers with the entire working class to maintain safe working conditions, oppose hospital closures and layoffs, and defend the right to high quality health care.
What must be done to end the pandemic
This video describes the current surge of the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, reviews the immense societal impacts of Long COVID and outlines a strategy of what must be done to end the pandemic. It has subtitles in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Tamil, Sinhala, Russian, Polish and Italian.
Dorset County Hospital workers protest creation of subsidiary company threatening terms and conditions
NHS FightBack campaign teams distributed a statement, “No to Labour’s NHS privatisation! Oppose mass staff transfer to private subsidiaries!”, calling on workers to join an online Zoom meeting (May 19 at 7 p.m.) to discuss a socialist strategy to resist the attacks on the NHS.
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Anatomy of a social crime: How financial speculation shuttered Crozer Health in Chester, Pennsylvania
The bankruptcy of healthcare service provider Prospect Medical Holdings has revealed the real face of the capitalist system’s subordination of public health to market forces, leaving an entire community to fend for itself without life saving services.
Matt Allen, Nick Barrickman•
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital announces plan to lay off 1,000 workers
The workforce reduction at NewYork-Presbyterian was announced amid a wave of job cuts in the healthcare industry, as well as President Trump’s all-out attack on public health.
Erik Schreiber•
NHS FightBack campaigns at Royal Bournemouth Hospital protest: “We shouldn’t be afraid to speak up”
Members of NHS FightBack distributed copies of a leaflet advertising next Monday night’s Zoom meeting, “No to Labour’s NHS privatisation! Oppose mass staff transfer to private subsidiaries!” NHS workers took extra copies to share with their departments.
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Evan Blake•
NHS FightBack•
Liz Cabrera•
Matt Allen, Tom Eley•
Marc Wells•
Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Family of Detroit autoworker who died of COVID-19 demands answers
In this video testimony, Catherine Pace’s family describes the working conditions which led to her death and the deaths of countless other autoworkers during the still-raging pandemic.
Jerry White, James Brewer•
“The worst is the fatigue, it feels like I have 500 pounds strapped to me”
Retired workers suffering from Long COVID in Flint, Michigan, speak to the Global Workers’ Inquest into the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ed, a retired auto worker, and Tammy, a retired care worker, have been “living with” COVID-19 for two years, and they’ve had enough.
Tim Rivers, Evan Blake•
"It's going to keep killing us, the ones who forcibly have to work."
Summary and highlights from Inquest testimony of Michigan autoworker Randall James
Watch the powerful testimony and share these eight highlight clips.
Tim Rivers, Zac Corrigan•
“This is a warfare of the upper classes against the lower classes”
Health care expert Gregory Travis speaks on the impacts of COVID-19 on children, misinformation and the cover-up of data
Travis exposes the lies and misinformation spread about COVID-19, in particular its impacts on children, and documents the steady erosion of data tracking over the past year and during the Omicron surge.
Evan Blake•
Zac Corrigan•
Guilherme Ferreira•
Richard Phillips, Cheryl Crisp•
Richard Phillips•
Evan Blake•