85,000 healthcare workers are voting to authorize a strike. If they do, it will be the largest healthcare strike the nation has ever seen.

https://www.businessinsider.com/kaiser-permanente-healthcare-workers-union-strike-vote-labor-reform-covid-2023-8

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/1800056

The union strike would impact dozens of Kaiser Permanente facilities across seven states and Washington, DC, affecting millions of patients.

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Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y (6 replies)

The CEO of Kaiser died at age 59. Let that sink in.

timespace@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y (5 replies)
  1. But what does that have to do with a healthcare strike happening now?
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Kaiser is a badly run healthcare agency that pinches its pennies so tightly its CEO died young of a cardiovascular condition

timespace@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

That’s quite a leap. What evidence do you have to support such a statement?

mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)
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timespace@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

As a Kaiser member, I know and understand all of that.

My question is specific to the death of the CEO and the claim that penny pinching killed him.

mind@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

I don’t know whether to applaud or cry.

tomatobeard@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y

Same. Good for these workers, but private health insurance shouldn't exist in the first place.

tallwookie@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
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