Health Care

Ohio vote: Big win for reproductive justice

Cleveland Reproductive justice advocates scored a historic victory on Election Day in Ohio. With almost 57% in favor, voters passed…

November 8, 2023

On the picket line

Robert Wood Johnson University, Kaiser Permanente strikes  Registered nurses at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey,…

October 10, 2023

Treatment of severe mental illness in the U.S. and Cuba – a comparison

Sue Harris is a psychologist who has worked in psychiatric hospitals and group homes and has been in private practice…

September 26, 2023

32BJ Justice for Janitors march in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Hundreds of unionized office cleaners, maintenance staff, mechanics and other building workers marched, chanted and carried picket signs and…

September 7, 2023

Union workers to Cleveland Clinic: ‘No contract, no peace!’

Cleveland Members of Service Employees (SEIU) Local 1199 have voted to strike Lutheran Hospital, one of Cleveland Clinic’s 311 facilities,…

August 18, 2023

In-N-Out Burger threatens workers’ health

The fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger will start banning workers from wearing masks, further endangering their health amid the ongoing COVID-19…

August 1, 2023

Heat waves’ uncounted death toll on workers

In most of the United States, bosses forcing workers to labor in deadly heat is totally legal.  July 4, 2023,…

July 25, 2023

COVID-19: An ongoing threat to health care workers

Health care workers around the world continue to fight for basic health protections amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Last week,…

July 25, 2023

“They’re killing us in here!”

Houston Tona Southards Naranjo told a stunned crowd at a press conference  July 18 in Austin at the Texas state…

July 24, 2023

Don’t fall for the traps in the humongous military budget

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a record-breaking military budget of $886 billion for the coming fiscal year. The…

July 21, 2023