Sarah Jaffe

And the same thing is true of these nurses that I've been covering, nurses at University Medical Center in New Orleans, which is it used to be Charity Hospital, right?

And Charity Hospital was never reopened after Hurricane Katrina.

But its purpose to be an open access hospital that serves everyone, regardless of your ability to pay, that's been folded into University Medical Center.

And these nurses are fighting and they've unionized and they're planning now their third strike because they're still not getting what they want.

Yeah, Kevin.

Oh, my goodness, Kevin.

I love him so much.

So Kevin was a former miner in England, and he had been a coal miner through the 1984-85 strike, after which Margaret Thatcher basically crushed the British coal industry.

And this had been nationalized.

So in England, the government owned the mines.

So they were striking against the government, not just some faceless mine boss.

And, you know, they lost.

They got crushed.

And a lot of them had to go into different industries.

And not a lot of the men, for somewhat obvious reasons, went into care work.

But this guy, Kevin, that I was speaking to and, you know, you know, he's this big guy who had been working down a mine for decades.

And then the mine shuts down and he goes into care and he's working with people.

adult men who have various special needs.

And you think about it, right?

Because a lot of the people who do care work are like my size and I'm, you know, I'm literally the average size woman.