Oregon Healthcare Workers Launch Largest Medical Strike in State History
Around 5,000 workers walked off the job at Providence hospitals Friday, demanding better pay and working conditions.
Around 5,000 workers walked off the job at Providence hospitals Friday, demanding better pay and working conditions.
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And these are the best that can be found at the salaries being offered. If they go away you will get even worse people.
My experience with healthcare workers is that they are underpaid and overworked and that after years and years of that they just stop caring.
You sound like you're just management.
You think MOST hospital staff make OVER 150k in the Portland area? That is an incredibly hot take.
The average salary is about 95k but that also includes the "high" earners and I put high in quotations because it still isn't like tech sector. A medical assistant at providence starts at 48k/yr. Desk worker starts at about 30k/yr.
That means the average worker can afford $650 to $2000 a month in rent or mortgage. Even at the top end that isnt enough to get a 2 bedroom apartment if they are single with a kid. That isnt enough to even approach buying a house unless they are splitting it with someone else making more than them.
For an RN the average is $100k and the top top is ~$160k.
The answer is that the overall healthcare system needs to be rebuilt. The fact though is that the hospitals all know the incoming administration will be cool with corner cutting but also won't pay out very well.
The trend already is for insurance to never pay out. Currently you have to bill for 4X the price of something just so the insurance company can write off how big of a savings things are when they pay out only 1/4th the cost which ends up hopefully being the actual cost.
So you have a hospital administration attempting to extract value from their workers, because they know that no one else will pay. Besides if a strike goes on they can just get the new administration to handwave hiring "holistic nursing" professionals who take a fake online test. They can just read out that the AI says that the problem is a combination of verbal irregularity and overall health being a bit behind.