The central question posed by the strike is who will control the healthcare industry the healthcare giants committed to profits or the working class committed to healthcare as a social right?
The key demands of rank-and-file healthcare workers are diverging from the conduct of the union bureaucracies, which are cynically utilizing the struggle of these workers as a publicity stunt to promote themselves and the election campaigns of various Democratic Party politicians.
Workers in the largest strike of healthcare workers in US history talk about chronic understaffing, low wages and the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The vote expresses a widespread desire to fight, after facing years of short staffing and COVID-19, while a new influx of patients is crushing healthcare systems.