Category: medical workers

Petition Filed Against LA City Minimum Wage Hike for Health Care Workers

August 14, 2022
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LOS ANGELES—A recently approved ordinance raising the minimum wage of some health care workers in the city to $25 per hour was temporarily suspended from taking effect Aug. 11 by the city clerk’s office after a referendum petition challenging the ordinance was filed. Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the ordinance into law in July after it…

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Anaheim Nurses Protest for Better Working Conditions as Hospital Becomes Overrun

February 14, 2022
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ANAHEIM, Calif.—As staff shortage continues to be a problem at hospitals, registered nurses experiencing “moral distress” picketed outside West Anaheim Medical Center on Feb. 14 demanding better work conditions. About a dozen or so healthcare workers were standing at the corner of South Beach Boulevard and West Orange Avenue with signs reading, “Patients First in…

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