At Keck Medicine, which brings in almost half the university’s revenue, workers say their wages and benefits lag other large health systems.
The Hospice East Bay vote shows growing unionization at end-of-life care.
They say “metrics for productivity” are driving care for the dying. Nov. 3 union vote marks growing labor organizing as end-of-life care becomes a for-profit industry.
In the second month of the Bay Area strike, HMO says a majority of union clinicians have returned to work.