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Tag Archives: Affordable Care Act
Workshop Talks: Nurses vs. Kaiser
From the September-October 2014 issue of News & Letters: Workshop Talks: Nurses vs. Kaiser Contract bargaining has begun between the California Nurses Association and Kaiser Permanente. CNA has steadfastly rejected management’s demand to hold negotiations in closed sessions….
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Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, alienated labor, alienation, California Department of Managed Health Care, California Nurses Association, caregiver, CNA, commodity, cost-control mandate, division of mental and manual labor, healthcare exchange, healthcare workers, Htun Lin, Kaiser Permanente, labor power, patient safety, SEIU, Veterans Administration
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Birth control and being human
The war against birth control is a war against the idea that women are actually human beings who have a right to control their fertility and plan when and if to have a child. Continue reading
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Tagged abortion rights, ACA, Affordable Care Act, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists, birth control, Catholic Church, Conestoga Wood Specialties, Contraception, Ella, feminism, Hobby Lobby, Intrauterine device, Marco Rubio, patriarchy, Plan B, Roy Blunt, Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, women's liberation
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Measured to death
Reliance on metrics in healthcare has become a new Taylorism, or management by time study. Everything in the hospital workplace is now tracked by sophisticated computer programs, down to every last pill, gauze and penny, and down to every last motion. This vast pool of information becomes Big Data. Continue reading
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Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, automation, Big Data, healthcare workers, HMO, labor, metrics, Taylorism
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Revolt and retrogression at home
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2014-2015: From the U.S. to Ukraine, crises and revolts call for philosophy. II. Revolt and retrogression at home. A. Women under attack. B. Many dimensions of revolt Continue reading
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Tagged abortion access, Affordable Care Act, African Americans, birth control, Charles Murray, Chicago, clinic escorts, Coming out of the Shadows, Contraception, criminal injustice system, domestic violence, feminism, Florida, food stamps, Health care, immigrant workers, International Women's Day, Kyle Tasker, labor, Living wage, low-wage workers, Marissa Alexander, Medicaid, Minimum wage, Moral Mondays, Paul Ryan, poverty, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, sexism, South Carolina, Truthful Tuesdays, undocumented workers, United States, women's liberation
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Queer Notes, March-April 2014
CeCe McDonald; Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act; Global Day of Action called by Solidarity Alliance in Nigeria. Continue reading
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Tagged Affordable Care Act, Africa, African Americans, Arizona, CeCe McDonald, gay, George Zimmerman, Global Day of Action, heterosexism, homophobia, IDAHO, Jordan Davis, lgbt, LGBTQ rights, Michael Dunn, Minneapolis, Nigeria, queer liberation, racism, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Solidarity Alliance, transphobia, Trayvon Martin, Uganda, United States
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