Kaiser Permanente workers prep for possibility of largest health care strike in US history
The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which represents over 85,000 health care workers in seven states and the District of Columbia, said Sunday it did not reach an agreement with the organization ahead of the contract’s expiration, setting the stage ...
The workers at Kaiser actually really wanted to strike over the vaccine mandate, but the unions refused to support us in any way. They insisted it was within Kaiser's right to force an experimental jab on their employees and encouraged everyone to just hurry up and get it and stop bothering them.
I think a lot of unions say one thing and do another. The leadership that is. There are countless examples where union leadership does the opposite of what is in their member's best interests.
For example, the UAW's support for EVs will likely kill the US auto manufacturing business. It is far more likely to help Chyna than help American workers. The number one thing an auto union should do is secure auto manufacturing jobs for members. Instead, the auto union will kill us auto worker jobs.
If medical unions cared about their members, they would have stood up for their member's bodily autonomy.
The number one thing that would have stopped the vaxx mandates is if the medical professionals simply refused to show up until the mandate was removed. There is no way in hell any mandates would have existed if there were mass call-ins for days off, etc.
It should have happened. But relying on unions to do it for members, instead of members doing it for themselves, is two different kettles of fish.
I agree. Though people tried to organize in private channels to figure out if we could find lawyers willing to take our case, organize protests/walkouts, get our story pushed to the media, but Kaiser always found ways to infiltrate these channels and attack whoever they could identify in them and make an example of them. They basically operate in an environment of demoralization and learned helplessness.
I don't envy what you had to go through at all. If/when they do it again, it's all hands on deck with no f*cks given. To the end.
Yes, where these workers in fighting for their lives and bodily autonomy?