Filipinos joined about a hundred healthcare workers who turned out on their lunch breaks at Laguna Honda Hospital yesterday to call for better wages and benefits. Since 2008, about 1,500 healthcare workers and office staff paid by the city of San Francisco lost 25 percent of their annual wages because of budget cuts. sourceRead More
An estimated 150,000 Filipino nurses work in the US, earning up to 30 times more than they could back home. But at what cost? Many nurses work long hours, some juggling multiple jobs to support their families. Others are exploited, intimidated and forced into indentured labour. Now Filipino nurses are on the front lines of […]Read More
At least 25 Filipino health care workers have now died with Covid-19, despite making up less than 2% of the NHS workforce. Subscribe to our channel here: https://goo.gl/31Q53F Newsnight has learned that the Filipino Nurses UK Association has written to the Chief Nursing Officer, Ruth May, asking for urgent action after figures emerged suggesting around […]Read More
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