Labor Notes
06-15-2017, 07:01 PM
http://labornotes.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/main/blogposts/dialysis16%20-%20Dave%20Sanders.jpg?itok=u1esxfV9 (http://www.thebellforum.com/blogs/2017/06/strike-against-squeezing-profits-kidney-patients)
On June 12 Teresa Schloth, a Brooklyn dialysis nurse for 32 years, walked out on her first-ever strike. She and her co-workers are battling a billion-dollar corporation that’s trying to wring greater profits out of kidney patients by skimping on staffing and shifting jobs out of the unions.
People with chronic kidney failure—the technical name is end-stage renal disease—qualify for Medicare regardless of age. Three times a week they go in for dialysis, where they spend hours hooked up to a machine that cleans their blood.
More... (http://labornotes.org/blogs/2017/06/strike-against-squeezing-profits-kidney-patients)
On June 12 Teresa Schloth, a Brooklyn dialysis nurse for 32 years, walked out on her first-ever strike. She and her co-workers are battling a billion-dollar corporation that’s trying to wring greater profits out of kidney patients by skimping on staffing and shifting jobs out of the unions.
People with chronic kidney failure—the technical name is end-stage renal disease—qualify for Medicare regardless of age. Three times a week they go in for dialysis, where they spend hours hooked up to a machine that cleans their blood.
More... (http://labornotes.org/blogs/2017/06/strike-against-squeezing-profits-kidney-patients)