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The strike of more than 300 nurses, respiratory therapists and radiology technicians at Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, New Jersey, has entered its third week. Workers are fighting a courageous battle against inadequate pay, understaffing, the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) and poor health care benefits.
These are the same fundamental issues that health care workers around the world are fighting. In northwest Germany, nurses have launched a region-wide, four-week strike. In the US, EMS workers in New York City, nurses in Buffalo, New York, Michigan, California and Minnesota are engaged in similar battles.
At stake in the struggle of health care workers at Saint Michael’s is much more than better working and living conditions; workers are up against a profit-driven health care system that has contributed to mass death and disease during the pandemic.
For the past two and a half years, health care workers have seen firsthand the failure of the ruling class to control the spread of SARS-CoV-2. They have witnessed the preventable deaths of more than a million Americans, including hundreds of their colleagues. Understaffing, overwork and insufficient supplies of PPE have contributed to the high death rates and to the enormous physical and psychological toll that the pandemic has taken on health care...
On May 10, a Muslim man called Arif Khan was assaulted inside a hotel in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal. Khan was with a Hindu woman at the hotel when men reportedly linked to the Bajrang Dal entered the ...