Faculty at all 23 campuses of the California State University system have voted to authorize a strike, demanding a new contract with higher salaries, lower class sizes and more manageable workloads.
There are other tactics that can be used but striking isn’t out of the question. I can’t speak for doctors specifically but other hospital staff can and have gone on strike before, with good success. There was just a healthcare strike at Kaiser permanente hospitals a few weeks ago. They fired a “warning shot” of sorts by striking for 3 days and threatening to strike again for as long as needed if their demands weren’t met.
Ethically, I personally don’t see a problem with it. By not allowing medical staff to strike you’re basically telling them that their life is worth less than someone else’s because they chose to pursue a public service. Because they had the gall to want to help people, they need to accept deplorable working conditions (that absolutely effect patient outcomes and result in death), poor pay, and mistreatment. That trying to make their lives and places of work better means they’re bad people, undeserving of basic human dignity
There are other tactics that can be used but striking isn’t out of the question. I can’t speak for doctors specifically but other hospital staff can and have gone on strike before, with good success. There was just a healthcare strike at Kaiser permanente hospitals a few weeks ago. They fired a “warning shot” of sorts by striking for 3 days and threatening to strike again for as long as needed if their demands weren’t met.
Ethically, I personally don’t see a problem with it. By not allowing medical staff to strike you’re basically telling them that their life is worth less than someone else’s because they chose to pursue a public service. Because they had the gall to want to help people, they need to accept deplorable working conditions (that absolutely effect patient outcomes and result in death), poor pay, and mistreatment. That trying to make their lives and places of work better means they’re bad people, undeserving of basic human dignity