It’s Survey Time at Highland

It’s Survey Time at Highland

This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. It’s that time again at Alameda Health System to complete the SCORE Culture of Safety Survey. Unfortunately, despite our annual attempts to...
Worker Productivity Scores: Exploitation Gets an Innovation

Worker Productivity Scores: Exploitation Gets an Innovation

The bosses are always trying to find new ways to squeeze more work out of us throughout the day. If there’s any way bosses can find to make us work more like machines, they’ll take it. And in response to the increasing numbers of workers working from home due to...
A New Domestic Terrorism Law?

A New Domestic Terrorism Law?

In the wake of the attack on the Capitol, Joe Biden and others are calling for a new law to prevent “domestic terrorism,” presumably by increasing surveillance and making harsher penalties for certain actions that the government defines as “terrorism.” While the...
The Surveillance State: Waging War on All of Us

The Surveillance State: Waging War on All of Us

Since September 11, 2001, in the name of national security, the U.S. government has given itself enormous new powers to watch and control people in the U.S. From surveillance cameras being installed in public streets and aerial drones patrolling cities, to local...