Tekeuchi-san documentary series about Huawei really eye-opening for ke as Indonesian. Our people in average dont know much about Huawei, i do heard about US sanction and 5g few years back but thats about it. Turn out it is a very very big thing👍👍👍
@elaineg602 жыл бұрын
The debate on overtime was fascinating. I have been lucky that almost every job I had-in an emergency room, lab, with animals or working at home on my computer; I loved each one, rarely got paid for the huge amount of overtime I did, but loved my work and respected my bosses. In comparison, my daughter loves her job, also in an emergency room…HOWEVER, during the pandemic she was forced to work 6-7 days/day and as a “reward”? Her hospital company CUT their pay, took away their pensions and made their health insurance 3x more expensive. The hospital wanted to build some gyms, daycare centers and a “Concierge” hospital for the rich. That was their excuse. My daughter and fellow doctors and nurses went on strike and refused to work. They came to an agreement, but it still isn’t very good for employees-they we’re just worried about people in the area having a place to go. My daughter is now applying to hospitals in Germany. (Who get paid twice as much with MANY more benefits)
@elaineg602 жыл бұрын
@Kai H search hospital strike in Buffalo and it should pop up. When you see who the owner is, you might be surprised. Don’t be. This infection in our country, especially egregious in the healthcare industry, has hit “public” as well as “private” hospitals, putting profits and outrageous salaries of upper management before and above patient care. When I first started MY career in medicine in the 1970’s; things were SO different. Back then I think people took the “unspoken social contract” between employers and employees, treatment of customers/patients, for granted. Most other countries had copied the policies that the US Labor movement fought so hard for and achieved: 40hr work weeks, overtime, benefits, minimum wage, union representation in most jobs, the end of child labor and safety in the workplace. (The book The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a great book about the beginnings of labor movements in the food industry. He wrote many other books on this now extinct “social contract”). But now, that contract is dead and gone; whilst other countries continue to improve their own social contracts with their citizens. I had a front row seat to it’s destruction in health care as our system went from mainly non-profit (and I mean REALLY NON-profit. The public hospital I worked at for many years had the same CEO from the 60’s-late 80’s and then his Son and Nephew were appointed CEO/CFO’s..until the scandals started. I had done a paper on this topic for an organization I was in in the 90’s, and with a LOT of help from old friends still at the hospital, got ahold of the numbers. Mr M Senior had a very acceptable salary in the late 70’s, early 80’s of $180k/yr, as well as the same benefits the rest of us had-free health insurance (NO premiums, back then most health insurance was also non-profit), retirement/pension, 1-2 weeks paid vacation and 1-2 weeks paid sick leave, etc. The de-regulation began in the late 70’s but didn’t start affecting us until the mid-80’s…when all of a sudden, Unions and labor movements started being demonized, compared to the mafia, taxes and supporting the Govt, which at that time was still mainly run by We the people and not powerful donors..also began getting demonized. Instead of fighting poverty, which was already known to be at the root of most criminal or negative social ills-turned into “lazy welfare queens”, “evil socialism”. Back to my hospital: by the late 80’s Mr M Sr’s salary had ballooned to over $500k, even though his workload was reduced. His son and Nephew, just below him in leadership, had salaries under $100k in 1982. 1988? $450k each. In the 90’s those salaries went over and have stayed well over, $1 miliion/yr. But it wasn’t just our upper management salaries. With de-regulation our non-profit hospital was now able, even encouraged with tax breaks/subsidies, to venture into FOR-profit subsidiaries in Child Care, physical therapy, nursing homes/extended care, wellness centers, off-site doc in the boxes and pharmacies. They built a huge office building attached to the hospital, charged outrageous rents and then, an attached multi-story parking lot, the only legal parking for employees and patients for many blocks..cost over $50/mo. All these new things meant they needed money to start these new ventures. All of us, for years, were accustomed to getting raises with each year of employment, fairly frequent merit awards, and benefits were expanded..or stayed the same..until the mid 80’s. It would be over 10 years before another wage increase, we were suddenly paying premiums for insurance, retirement/pensions were completely wiped out by the early 2000’s. That wasn’t all. Patient care suffered more each year with growing patient-nurse ratios and I’ll never forget in the mid 90’s, when we had our yearly JCAH Re-accreditation..we didn’t have enough working, up to date equipment, everyday supplies or housekeeping staff to have the entire hospital inspected in one day. It was split into 3 days and those of us on night shift spent more time shuffling equipment and cleaning-than taking care of patients. Salaries; in 1984, my starting salary as an RN-Paramedic, who had already worked at this hospital as first, an LPN, then just a paramedic..but as a new RN-P in the ER? $13/hr in ‘83. In 2010, my younger daughter finished the same 3 year paramedic degree (an AS in EMS) and bridged to her RN as I’d done. Almost 30 years later, she was hired at $16/hr, with few of the benefits I’d had in 83. She had a $250/mo premium for health insurance. No retirement, although they’re willing to introduce you to the investment managers connected with the hospital. Paid leave and sick leave has dwindled to 1 week AFTER you’ve been there for a year and tuition reimbursement doesn’t start until you have 2-3 years. They’d paid for mine up front with a verbal promise..but they’d known me since I started there as a teen volunteer. My daughter left that hospital 3 years ago, to work at what she believed would be a better environment for both employees and patients. While her salary DID double, the cost of living and taxes in NY is MUCH more than North Florida. Still though, at least she was allowed to join a Union-something that would have gotten her fired in Florida at our old hospital. But, she went through a nightmare with the pandemic..at one point forced to wear garbage bags for PPEs. They had protestors outside for months, yelling at them, even throwing things at them, accusing them of making patients sick and/or being a part of some giant conspiracy. What hurts the most is we KNOW what the solutions are..but I can’t see anything changing for MANY years. Our so called “democracy and freedom”, “died” many years ago when we ignored the warnings of many wise men like Eisenhower, MLK, Ralph Nader, Jimmy Carter & more. They warned us about an unregulated, no oversight military industrial complex would lead to perpetual wars and eventually, the end of America as we knew it. Jimmy Carter had the same warnings about healthcare, the oil industry, the perils of privatizing education, and although he’s a staunch Christian, he feared Republican’s tearing down the wall between church and state, using religion as many have done in the past, to inject fear and control their base. We are currently so buried in corporate fascism..I can’t see us digging out anytime soon. When a friend invited me to listen in on Northrop Grumman’s first quarter shareholder’s call; imagine my surprise when HCA piped in about how excited they were about their new partnership. I’m unsure exactly what/why HCA is partnering with our largest defense contractor, who with Raytheon, was thrilled to death about Ukraine and the ramp-up of tensions with China that they assured shareholders meant yet another record breaking year of profits. These companies now own and operate American lives and our politicians, even most of the progressive ones, have sold out to them. They aren’t going to give up a penny of profit or an inch of power..without one very violent fight.
@theokang67952 жыл бұрын
@@elaineg60 Hope all is well (希望一切都好)。 I can feel your disappointment. There are too many people doing harm to the world. We ordinary people have to suffer something bad in the turbulent world.