Category: health care worker

The Mandate on Health-Care Workers Is Still Unjust

October 6, 2022
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Last September, Biden announced that he was mandating COVID vaccines for all 10 million healthcare workers in America — as well as for any American working for a company employing more than a hundred people. In a televised evening speech, he announced, “My job as president is to protect all Americans.” Actually, his oath of…

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Long Beach Adopts $25 Minimum Wage for Private Healthcare Workers

August 5, 2022
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The Long Beach City Council voted unanimously Aug. 2 to boost the city’s minimum wage for health care workers from $15 to $25 per hour—a 67 percent increase. The new policy applies to workers from private health care facilities including clinicians, certified nursing assistants, janitors, technicians, and laundry workers. This is “[a] historic and important…

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Mississippi Nurse Organizes Rally Against Vaccine Mandates

September 20, 2021
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About 100 people stood in the rain on Saturday to protest vaccine mandates in front of a hospital in Columbus, Mississippi. Nurse Amber Anders organized the rally, one of many that have been held throughout the state. “My biggest frustration with this is that I know I have natural immunity, so I don’t need the…

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