Current Events > What would happen if healthcare workers were banned from striking?

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I know that Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers are going on strike but many people out there say they should be banned from doing it because healthcare is very important to society functioning and many people can die without workers available

I always wondered what would happen if President Biden made it illegal for them to strike. I know he did it for the railway workers and they were forced to suck it up and take a bad deal.

then you'd just have a continuation of what is already happening

people leaving healthcare

major hospitals, including a level 1 trauma center in Atlanta, are closing. Hospital closures will only continue if you can't find people to work in them.

Healthcare sucks. Private equity destroyed it

NightingaleMD posted...

Healthcare sucks. Private equity destroyed it

gotta "both sides!" this.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/03/staffing-crisis-deepens-in-nhs-england-with-110000-posts-unfilled
https://globalnews.ca/news/8487144/canada-covid-nursing-shortage-alarm/

If healthcare is too important to allow underpaid workers to strike then why is healthcare for all not a thing

Fuck conservatives

they would go on even more on strike
Silver_Patron posted...

I know that Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers are going on strike but many people out there say they should be banned from doing it because healthcare is very important to society functioning and many people can die without workers available

I always wondered what would happen if President Biden made it illegal for them to strike. I know he did it for the railway workers and they were forced to suck it up and take a bad deal.

they should have go on strike anyway
people have to realize that it's the workers that have the power not the rulers, because if the people unite there's nothing the people in charge can do about it

DarthAragorn posted...

If healthcare is too important to allow underpaid workers to strike then why is healthcare for all not a thing

why is there no trains for all?

Wait, what does go even more on strike mean?

Also, I dont fully know what happened but didnt the railway workers fall in line once Biden banned striking?

Questionmarktarius posted...

why is there no trains for all?

Probably because you don't actually need trains to not die

Remember when Reagan fired all air traffic controllers on strike? Pretty evil move, wonder if they ever regretted striking.

Silver_Patron posted...

healthcare is very important to society functioning and many people can die without workers available

Huh.

Sounds like we should be paying them more then, as well as giving them whatever reasonable accommodations they're asking for.

You'd probably get something like how protests work in Japan, where people keep going into work but just refuse to charge customers:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/11/no-ticket-to-ride-japanese-bus-drivers-strike-by-giving-free-rides-okayama

Australia did something similar:
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/farefree-buses-thursday-but-no-buses-friday-afternoon-as-drivers-strike-20170725-gxi8zz.html

We're too important to be treated like shit.

I'm sure the same people that cry about how universal healthcare is slavery will be screaming about heartless workers caring more about getting paid than helping others.

s0nicfan posted...

You'd probably get something like how protests work in Japan, where people keep going into work but just refuse to charge customers:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/may/11/no-ticket-to-ride-japanese-bus-drivers-strike-by-giving-free-rides-okayama

Australia did something similar:
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/farefree-buses-thursday-but-no-buses-friday-afternoon-as-drivers-strike-20170725-gxi8zz.html

Boy wouldn't I love free healthcare haha

MAR10_KarT posted...

Boy wouldn't I love free healthcare haha

Same.

At least we have freedom.

Not from crippling debt of course, I mean what developed country has a healthcare system that doesn't ruin you for having to use it?

Almost all of them? Huh.

Kalk posted...

Remember when Reagan fired all air traffic controllers on strike? Pretty evil move, wonder if they ever regretted striking.

Yeah I remember that. Thats another risk healthcare workers are taking by going on strike.

Healthcare workers get treated like dirt as it is.

BroodRyu posted...

Healthcare workers get treated like dirt as it is.

So do patients. At least in the VA system anyway.

HOON posted...

So do patients. At least in the VA system anyway.

Patients get treated like dirt in hospitals too.

Unless you are rich or well connected.

Kalk posted...

Remember when Reagan fired all air traffic controllers on strike? Pretty evil move, wonder if they ever regretted striking.

Particularly because they were striking for updated equipment and a reduced work week. And the union had supported Reagan after receiving this promise.

You can rest assured that if I am elected President, I will take whatever steps are necessary to provide our air traffic controllers with the most modern equipment available and to adjust staff levels and work days so that they are commensurate with achieving a maximum degree of public safety.

It would be bad

Intro2Logic posted...

It would be bad

Overworked, underpaid healthcare workers is also demonstrably bad.

How?

They would have no choice but to work or quit if they're not allowed to strike

Kalk posted...

Remember when Reagan fired all air traffic controllers on strike? Pretty evil move, wonder if they ever regretted striking.

Not just fired, banned any fired person from ever working as an air traffic controller gain. Clinton later reversed that lifetime ban but few of them ever worked as ATC again.

Makes sense since the reversal happened too long after the ban happened

Banning striking for any industry is a terrible precedent to set.

It is but sadly it happens