We Need More Permanent Staff

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Travel nurses play a vital role in our hospitals – they help make sure patients are cared for when facilities have higher than usual census, such as during a sudden outbreak, natural disaster, or major accident. […]

Clockin’ In Blues

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. At Highland Hospital, our nurses’ union contract stipulates that we have a 7-minute grace period to clock in before the start of each shift. This ensures that we are settled and ready to take report from […]

Todos los días son Día de los Impuestos para la clase trabajadora

La gente piensa en el 15 de abril como el Día de los Impuestos porque es la fecha de cierre de los impuestos sobre la renta federales y estatales. Si recibes un reembolso, es sólo porque has estado pagando al sistema durante todo el año. Las personas de clase trabajadora pagamos durante todo el año, […]

The Wrong Way to Stop the Right

Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) made news last week by contributing, for the first time in her nearly five years in the House of Representatives, $260,000 to the campaign arm used by Democrats in the House of Representatives. For her first few years in office, she resisted contributing to the larger fund, choosing to use her […]