This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA.
A hospital system relies on all types of workers to make it function – from therapists who ensure patients can safely swallow or move, to kitchen staff who cook and serve meals for patients and their families, to remote IT staff who fix the technology we all use.
Our focus should be on reducing unnecessary spending, such as inflated executive salaries, or costly outside contracts for agency workers in roles that could and should be filled by direct employees. What we should not do is pit one group of workers against another or support layoffs of any AHS-employed staff. Patients cannot afford cuts to any of our services!
If we want to save our jobs and protect patients, we need solidarity across departments and facilities. Every worker is essential, and an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
Click here to read the article printed in the 12-24-25 Healthcare Newsletter
