Several Southern California cities have approved, or are considering, a $25-an-hour minimum wage for healthcare workers at private facilities, but a new report says 65% of healthcare employees across those communities would be excluded. The study from Berkeley Research Group predicts the move would fuel higher salaries for others earning more than minimum wage as […]
The workers, represented by SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West, say the momentum is building after city councils in Los Angeles, Downey, Monterey Park and Long Beach passed ordinances establishing a $25 minimum wage.
SACRAMENTO As intensive care units filled and coronavirus cases surged over the holidays, Carmela Coyle invoked a World War II-era quote attributed to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to rally her own troops: If you re going through hell, keep going.
Coyle is head of the California Hospital Association, and her troops are the highly paid hospital executives she represents. Throughout the pandemic, as in the December memo in which she quoted Churchill, she has employed battlefield rhetoric to galvanize their massive political and financial clout.
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That s because Coyle believes hospitals are quite simply in battle conditions a sentiment she has impressed upon the state s top health care officials.