health care
Connecticut group home workers strike Sunrise for wages, pensions, dignity
November 5, 2021Most are making less than $17-an-hour and have to pay $6,000 in monthly premiums for family health insurance coverage. The CEO, meanwhile, rakes in a $325k annual salary.
Read moreKaiser hospitals’ intransigence forces workers to authorize strike
October 13, 2021After two weeks with no contract, the company stalls on talks that are going nowhere.
Read moreSupreme Court lets Texas kill Roe v. Wade and abortion rights
September 2, 2021Attacks on women have people comparing Texas to the Taliban.
Read moreSenate plows through budget, rejecting most GOP ‘social issue’ schemes
August 11, 2021The blueprint passed could produce historic pro-worker change if lawmakers respond to the mass movements and their election mandates.
Read moreHealth care for older immigrants experiences momentum among states
July 26, 2021Most mornings, 62-year-old Maria Elena Estamilla wakes up with pelvic pain and dread that she faces the same fate as her mother and grandmother: fatal cervical cancer.
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