• NoneOfUrBusiness
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    More medical workers should do this. It’s infuriating how companies abuse these workers’ dedication to saving human lives to abuse them.

    • @DeathsEmbrace@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      Welcome to the passionate industry. Game devs, healthcare workers and anybody in social work. Majority of these people will be taken advantage of because of capitalisms fine print.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        See also: teachers.

        Anyone who’s passionate enough about their job to not only be in it for the pay and benefits will be extra likely to be shafted by the corporate overlords on pay and benefits 🤬

        • bean
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          Firefighters. EMTs too. They aren’t paid enough for what they do. Never have been. People who quite literally make a career of helping others.

    • @ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
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      Thats only half of the story. Most of these medical workers are making over 2x what the average service worker is trying to survive on. The fact that they make that much when so many other people dont is part of what keeps their wages deflated. Theyll say if you dont like making $35 an hour then go flip burgers for $17

      If medical workers “cant survive” on $35/hr then obviously the average person is well beyond fucked, but the average person is expected to survive on half that much. And so long as there is a cycle of people attempting to make it on <$20/hr wages then no one is gonna raise wages for skilled work

      • sunzu2
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        218 days ago

        20 hour workers should work on organizing and striking BC that’s the only way anything is changing for them.

    • yeehaw
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      1918 days ago

      Like everything these days. Trickle up economics.

    • @explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      217 days ago

      There should be black market health care where the patient pays a “snitch deposit” up front. In a sane country this would be prohibitively expensive, but in the USA we’ll just be happy you can get the deposit back.

  • @SnarkoPolo@lemm.ee
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    1718 days ago

    I’m from Anaheim. I’m surprised the cops haven’t shut them down. That’s the kind of place it is.

    • sunzu2
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      It wouldn’t be America then… Out parasites need to loot the insurance payers, federal government, labour and patients…

      So middle man can get rich, that’d his divine right in this here country.

      May St luigi bless their hearts!

  • Makhno
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    218 days ago

    “People who make enough to afford to strike in California complain that they don’t make enough to live”

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      It says a lot that you’re angry and the workers yet the company made massive profits.

      FTA “Meanwhile, Prime Healthcare reported $56 million in net profit from 2021 to 2023. None of this has gone to staffing or improving care. Instead, its latest contract proposal offers just a 3 percent annual raise—insultingly below inflation and far less than the wage scales at nearby hospitals like Keck-USC, where salaries are about 30 percent higher.”