mental health
For the sake of our (mental) health, Detroit needs an alternative to policing
November 3, 2022The Motor City desperately needs an alternative to calling the police when mental health crises occur. Other locales have explored and tested new approaches worth studying.
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Kaiser Permanente mental health clinicians ratify contract, ending 10-week strike
October 21, 2022The National Union of Healthcare Workers announced an overwhelming vote of 1,561 to 36 to ratify a new contract with breakthrough provisions to retain staff and reduce patients’ wait times.
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Minnesota mental health workers strike: ‘Those who provide care have no support’
October 17, 2022SEIU-represented health workers struck after bosses refused to negotiate a first contract.
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Kaiser mental health clinicians reject Kaiser offer that wouldn’t increase staffing
September 28, 2022The therapists are now in the seventh week of an open-ended strike.
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Labor Day rally marks Kaiser mental health clinicians’ fourth week on strike
September 9, 2022San Francisco Labor Council’s Kim Tavaglione told strikers: “All of labor in California is standing with you…to change a system riddled with greed and profit.”
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