Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staffers staged a demonstration after their hospital got multiple safety and health violations, which they said made them defenseless in the epidemic period. The SEIU-UHW led the demonstration where Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staffers chanted and held signs that demanded the hospital invest in safety for staffers.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health delivered citations to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center that were worth $100,000 or so. Many of those citations were associated with coronavirus and regarded as serious.
The medical center opposed each violation, whereas Cal/OSHA noted that there may be more or fewer violations and that it has not closed the citations.
When it comes to the citations, the center is thought to have failed to report as its workers had contracted coronavirus disease. Some of those employees had died due to the condition when they were getting treatment at the medical center.
Surgical technician Taryne Mosley of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said that it has left a few of its workers defenseless against coronavirus disease as they worked to look after patients. Mosley added that he and his co-workers want the center to safeguard healthcare employees from experiencing harm, to begin with, not just after the death of people. As for Mosley, the public should know that the hospital’s failure to follow basic safety and health laws means that it is putting workers and patients at risk.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staffer Willie Gladney stated that vulnerable employees like elderly staffers and pregnant women who have pre-existing health conditions, were frequently scheduled to do their jobs on levels with coronavirus patients.
Gladney remembered an instance in which a fellow worker has perhaps contracted coronavirus disease at the location and infected her husband. Gladney claimed that the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center staffer went back home, which contributed to the death of her husband. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center designated it as a COVID-19 level, but Gladney said that the woman should not have been working there.
It is not easy to identify where anyone may have caught the virus. Nevertheless, a violation of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center was that the hospital did not reduce exposure to coronavirus for nurses and other staffers in its breakroom.
Earlier this year, healthcare staffers voted on whether or not to engage in a stoppage of work over wage negotiations, lack of staffers and safety concerns.
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center stated that it presented the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West with a solid economic proposal at the beginning of bargaining. As for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the proposal would have offered bargaining unit workers pay increases by March 27, 2022. Unfortunately, the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West rejected the proposal without even asking its two-thousand members, who work for Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.