Thread by @MentalWoke

Today on #LaborDay I want to talk to you about supporting strikes and unions.

People get very personally a fronted when people like therapists, nurses, doctors, and teachers strike. They also get upset and blame these same people when they can't get help.
So the Kaiser Strike
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Kaiser mental health workers in California and Hawai'i are on strike because Kaiser has refused to fully staff its clinics forcing clients to wait for care. Kaiser is breaking the law and clinical standards.
Yet people are upset with the workers.
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I have seen people complaining about workers "abandoning" their patients.
This is horrible short sided crab in barrel behavior. It is Kaiser who is denying care. Kaiser not properly staffing and crating dangerous environments for workers and clients alike.
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When helping professions strike it is almost always beneficial to not just them, but to those the serve.

If we want better mental health care, it behooves you not to side with the soulless corporation which seeks to make that impossible.
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Good therapists can't be good for long in abusive exploitative burnout factory workplaces. We will just leave. Poor working conditions breed compassion fatigue. Unethical companies will not be able to retain ethical clinicians.

This means worse quality care for clients
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Labor Day is supposed to celebrate labor movements not just a 3 day weekend for those privileged enough to get it off.

Corporations will not save us. We need to listen and support when Helping and Healthcare workers sound alarms. Support @NUHW this #LaborDay and everyday
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