Class divide in US life expectancy reaches 9 years for elderly
New data on a widening nine-year life expectancy gap between rich and poor retirees demonstrates the devastating impacts of the US' profit-driven healthcare system.
Benjamin Mateus•
The struggle of health care workers
“Reject the politics of compromise and subordination”: Open letter from California nurse to New Orleans nurses
“The path forward lies in organizing independently—through the creation of rank-and-file committees democratically controlled by nurses themselves—to wage a genuine fight for your demands.”
Liz Cabrera•
UK resident doctors speak from the picket lines: “It's about us making a stand for the future of the NHS”
The strike, they made clear, is a fight to defend both their future as doctors and the future of a publicly funded NHS for all. There was also opposition to social inequality and the wealth of the billionaires, the growth of the extreme right and scapegoating of immigrants, the Gaza genocide and billions being diverted for war.
Our correspondents•
“Our patients are afraid to come to their treatment because of the ICE raids.”
Kaiser nurses speak out from the picket on last day of strike set to coincide with the “No Kings” protests
With political issues at the forefront, the strike at Kaiser is taking place within a powder keg that is threatening to spill over beyond what the union apparatuses intended.
Norisa Diaz•
Tom Hall, Aaron Murch•
NHS FightBack•
Our reporters•
Kevin Reed•
Build rank-and-file committees throughout the healthcare industry!
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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.
15,000 New York City nurses poised to strike for safe staffing
Nurses at private nonprofit hospitals throughout the city and on Long Island must organize immediately to repel management’s attacks and defeat the New York State Nurses Association’s dogged attempts to sabotage their strike.
Erik Schreiber•
Nurses in New York City and Long Island must stop NYSNA’s sabotage of next week’s citywide strike!
The union has withdrawn strike notices at seven of the 15 hospitals involved without even having secured contracts. It is preparing a repeat of its sellout two years ago, when it canceled strikes at all but two hospitals.
Erik Schreiber•
For a unified struggle of resident doctors and NHS workers against Starmer’s austerity and privatisation
Resident doctors, nurses, and all National Health Service staff enjoy the respect of millions and can mobilise mass working-class opposition to austerity and war against the culprits responsible for driving the public health service to ruin.
NHS FightBack•
New York City’s emergency medical services begin new year in crisis
Entering their fourth year without a contract, EMS workers are struggling to respond to increasing call volumes while staffing and real wages decline.
Edwin Hernandez•
Erik Schreiber, Steve Light•
NHS FightBack•
Kevin Reed•
Our reporters•
Tony Robson•
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•
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