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Justice For Kaiser Patients & NUHW Workers! Stop The Suicides From Profiteering & Cost Shifting

by Labor Video Project
NUHW Kaiser mental healthcare workers in California launched a five-day strike on December 10, 2018, over care for patients and NHWA workers conditions. They rallied and marched at SF Kaiser.
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Justice For Kaiser Patients & NUHW Workers! Stop The Suicides From Profiteering & Cost Shifting
https://youtu.be/H3JCz2gbEow

Kaiser NUHW mental healthcare workers launched a five day strike on December 10, 2018 to demand proper staffing to serve their patients and decent working conditions. They were also joined by CNA nurses at the Kaiser hospitals.

Kaiser which has been fined previously by the state of California is refusing to promptly treat seriously ill patients and is outsourcing the work to contractors.

According to the workers and families, this is creating a serious healthcare crisis and in some cases is leading to suicides and deaths.

According to the union and Congressman Patrick Kennedy it is also violating the law of California and the US. Kennedy called on the California Attorney General Xavier Bacerra to conduct an investigation of Kaiser because of it's failure to provide proper care to patients with mental healthcare problems and also cost shifting by Kaiser to limit their liability. Kennedy charged that they are pushing patients onto Social Security and onto local county health systems to increase their profits.

Additional media:

Kaiser NUHW Workers Strike Against Short Staffing Threatening Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8SjlVXpmAI&t=9s

Kaiser NUHW Healthcare Workers Protest Retaliatory Firing Of Whistleblower Dr. Alex Wang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPcY_bhGj54

Production of Labor Video Project
http://www.laborvideo.org
§Kaiser Patients Not Getting Proper Care
by Labor Video Project
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NUHW Kaiser healthcare professionals are speaking out about the serious dangers to patients with serious mental problems.
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Family members talked about their daughter who committed suicide because of the failure of Kaiser to have prompt and professional treatment because of a lack of staffing.
§CNA NNU Kaiser Nurses Backed NUHW Members
by Labor Video Project
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CNA NNU Kaiser Nurses spoke in support of NUHW striking members.
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