This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA.
Workers throughout Alameda Health System are understandably concerned about the upcoming layoffs, which couldn’t have come at a worse time right before the holidays. Families are waiting to make travel plans and buy gifts, knowing they might not have jobs in the new year.
Workers have found it insulting that upper management has completely taken off the table any discussion of cuts to their own bloated salaries. Do the executives really need to be getting raises while the people who actually do the work at AHS are losing their jobs? It’s shameful that this conversation is shut down by management any time we bring it up.
Workers don’t want AHS’s offers of resume-writing assistance and referrals to the employee assistance program. We want job security and safe staffing so we can keep taking care of our patients and our community, through the holidays and onwards into 2026!
Click here to read the article printed in the 12-03-25 Healthcare Newsletter
