{"id":5208,"date":"2021-04-13T17:48:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T01:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=5208"},"modified":"2021-04-13T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:07:08","slug":"health-care-workers-protest-outside-kaiser-permanente-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/health-care-workers-protest-outside-kaiser-permanente-medical-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Workers Protest Outside Kaiser Permanente Medical Center Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adri\u00e1n Rocha. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P<\/a>].<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

A group of unionized health care workers at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Redwood City protested outside the facility today to demand better working conditions, adequate medical supplies, staffing and bonuses owed to workers even though the facility has made about $6.4 billion in profits during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, according to the protesters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions, which protested this morning and was led primarily by women, denounced through its spokesperson and hospital nutritionist Stephanie Archie that \"throughout the Bay Area, the needs of workers to care for themselves and their families have not been respected so that they can return and care for patients in the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michele Kyles is a lab worker who has been working for 17 years and one of the reasons for participating in the protest and supporting the workers' demands, she says, is that \"she wants to be treated fairly and for her co-workers to be treated equally.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stephanie also denounced that the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center hospital has maintained the United States Department of Labor's provision of 80 paid hours for workers who contract the disease, \"but this has not been enough, since the disease does not develop equally in all patients and sometimes they need more time to recover from the COVID-19 disease; besides, this right is only for full-time workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"I have seen our co-workers come into conflict with each other, as many of them call in sick to assist patients so as not to be penalized by the medical institution and not to put their job at risk, but this situation puts other workers and the patients themselves at risk and that time is simply not enough,\" Stephanie commented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The federal paid leave provisions established by the Department of Labor, effective December 31, 2020, are found in the Families First Coronavirus Response Act: Employee Paid Leave Rights, which provides that full-time employees qualify for 80 hours of paid leave, while part-time workers qualify for paid leave for the total hours of a normal two-week workday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adri\u00e1n Rocha. Pen\u00ednsula 360 Press [P360P]. Un grupo de trabajadores sindicalizados de la salud del hospital Kaiser Permanente Medical Center en Redwood City protestaron el d\u00eda de hoy a las afueras de sus instalaciones para demandar mejores condiciones de trabajo, material m\u00e9dico adecuado, personal de trabajo y bonos que les deben a los trabajadores a […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9,44,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5208","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cover","8":"category-community","9":"category-fotogaleria","10":"category-peninsula","11":"category-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5216,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5208\/revisions\/5216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}