Newsweek Discovers Workers Exist, Briefly, Before Strike Ends
Newsweek reports the end of the Kaiser Permanente workers' strike, focusing on the agreement. What’s conspicuously absent? Any deep dive into Kaiser's staggering $21 billion in profits in 2022, or its CEO’s $16 million salary, while frontline healthcare staff fought for better pay and staffing levels. It's almost as if the 'news' prefers to describe the symptom (a strike) rather than expose the
systemic illness (corporate greed in healthcare). One might wonder if the same outlets will report with equal fervor when those historically underpaid workers inevitably return to the picket lines in a few years, having squeezed pennies from multi-billion dollar operations. The "access to health" concern only seems to surface when workers fight for their rights, not when corporate boards hoard
wealth.