This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. In a recent memo sent by the Kaiser administration, we were warned not to leave the downtown Oakland building during our lunch breaks. This was...
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. We know that Kaiser is notorious for cutting corners, but the recent email sent to all Kaiser employees that the hospital would no longer be...
Over the past several years, hundreds of thousands of young people without adults (known as unaccompanied minors) have entered into the United States, mainly from Central America, every single year, and the number has been steadily increasing. Many of these youth flee...
In the worst mine accident in decades, 27 people were killed in a fire in a gold mine in southern Peru. In the province of Arequipa, a circuit breaker in a small gold mine short-circuited causing the deadly fire. This incident shows the danger faced by miners in Peru,...
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. A hospital is not made up of solely healthcare providers and patients. Hospitals function because of the vital responsibilities of all its workers:...
