Across the country, hospital employees spearheaded some of the more significant strikes of the year.
February 22, 2022, 7:23 PMLast year, approximately 140,000 workers went on strike, and about half were employed in the healthcare sector, according to a new "Labor Action Tracker"Across the country, hospital employees spearheaded some of the more significant strikes of the year: in California tens of thousands of Kaiser Permanente nurses and other hospital workers joined picket lines to show solidarity for operating engineers demanding better pay, and in Massachusetts, around 700...
Social worker Joyce Klein helped lead an 18-day strike of more than a thousand unionized hospital workers in Chicago's Cook County that ended in a pay raise, and she expects a lot more organizing in her industry. "This is only the beginning," Klein said. "I think especially because of the pandemic, people are at their breaking point and now that they're seeing their success here and their ability to organize and their ability to make demands, now is the time. It's just going to get bigger from here."
Klein said she could not have organized a successful strike without the help of her union, which brought people working in a variety of lanes throughout the hospitals together — physical therapists, maintenance workers, lab technicians.10% of American workers — strike activity is nowhere near historic highs, says Nelson Lichtenstein, a history professor at University of California, Santa Barbara who studies labor history in the U.S.
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