This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA.
Despite the rollback of the planned layoffs, the Highland cafeteria still remains closed on the weekends. Inpatient food service workers continue to take on the extra work of making the residents and doctors food, while everyone else has to bring their own bagged lunches, spend half their paycheck on DoorDash, or go hungry.
If layoffs have been called off, then why hasn’t the cafeteria re-opened on the weekends?
Is it because too many workers quit out of fear that their jobs would not exist come July? Or because too many workers were sick and tired of the whiplash of layoff delays, so left to find work with more stability? Is management using the excuse of the layoffs to save money on weekend labor costs?
Whatever the reason, workers and patient families deserve to have a place to eat on the weekends! No one wants to be stranded at a hospital with no food!
Click here to read the article printed in the 07-15-26 Healthcare Newsletter
