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National Women’s Hospital on work stoppage

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October 15th, 2015 (ICR News) Medical staff and workers at The National Women’s Hospital (Hospital de la Mujer) abandoned their posts Thursday morning, demanding improvements to the hospital.

 

The head of the National Union of Employees of the Caja (Undeca), Victor Arce, told CRHoy.com that staff are demanding improvements in infrastructure after a fire that occurred recently in one of the delivery rooms of the medical center, adding that some areas of the hospital are up to 70 years old and in poor condition.

 

Workers are also demanding additional staff for the hospital.

 

Staff are currently only attending to emergencies as the work stoppage continues.

 

On Friday, nearly all public hospitals and medical centers in the San Jose metro area and the Central Valley will only be attending to emergencies as public health workers and medical staff join in a massive general strike of public sector employees.

 

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  • Tom Keeling

    Those people involved in this work stoppage will find it difficult to get into Heaven, when the time comes.

    • zzzzz

      lol

  • Ken Morris

    Actually; I support these kinds of strikes by the healthcare workers, because the government itself is arrears to the tune of over a billion dollars to the Caja.

    Yes, like every other employer in the country, the government withholds payroll taxes from its public employees that it is obligated to turn over to the Caja. It is also obligated to pay its employer portion of the Caja tax.

    But the government doesn’t pay these taxes owed to the Caja. Instead, it pockets the payroll taxes it withholds from employees and doesn’t pay its portion of the tax either.

    When private employers do this, which unfortunately many do, sooner or later the tax collectors come out and shut down the businesses pending payment of the taxes owed. However, when the government itself does this, which it does consistently, no tax collectors come out to shut it down pending payment of the taxes owed.

    This is incredible mismanagement, even criminal mismanagement, by the government itself.

    So next time you grumble over your Caja tax or, worse, over the long waits and lousy treatment in the Caja, don’t point your finger at the Caja. Point it at the government which is stealing money from the Caja.

    I hate strikes by healthcare workers, but by God someone needs to hold the criminally mismanaged government responsible for the plight of the Caja.

    Forget foreign debt. The first debt the government owes is to its own sick citizens, from whom it is now stealing money.

    • zzzzz

      interesting

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