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What Do Healthcare Systems Owe the Working Class? with Gabe Winant

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The Importance of Nursing Strikes

There's a big movement among deans in nursing schools to move away from associates and diploma programs. And I'm actually trying to make an argument within my own circles to say what you're actually doing is functionally shutting off a pipeline to the working class for the working poor. It might be good for nursing as a profession, but it's very bad for American labor. My wife believes nursing strikes are unethical, given their special relationship with patients. But where nurses power really can come from is just like we'd call hospital industrial confrontation.

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