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Hospitals Are Desperately Understaffed. Could Co-ops Be an Answer? (inthesetimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by TokenBoomer to c/progressivepolitics

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Unionized staffing cooperatives like AlliedUP can offer workers not only better pay and benefits, but critical support and a measure ownership over their professional futures.

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[–] AmazingAwesomator 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

pay the staff appropriately and you will no longer have a shortage. i dont understand how this is still news.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Because American business owners would do literally anything other than paying people

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 3 points 1 month ago

And require masks and vaccines like normal people want.

[–] Fades 3 points 1 month ago

No, simply increase the number of H1B visa workers, now you can pay them even less and work them even harder, they have no leverage!

[–] Bacano 2 points 1 month ago

Coops are part of the answer to America's corporate disease