Healthcare workers are exchanging scrubs and gloves for signs and megaphones. In what's been called "Striketober," frontline staff are walking out of hospitals, emergency rooms, and doctor's offices to insist on better pay, benefits, and hours.
Earlier this month, Kaiser Permanente workers in California voted to authorize a strike over a proposed new wage system. A Minneapolis health center recently suspended all emergency and urgent care services when its nurses went on strike. Nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Massachusetts have been on strike for most of 2021.
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