Thursday, September 12, 2002
Do You Want Fries with Healthcare?
Taco Bell competes with Beverly [Enterprises] for those people.
― William R. Floyd, Chairman of the nation's largest nursing home chain, referring to his low-wage nursing assistants, July 7, 2002
There really are an enormous number of similarities between this and the world I came from.
― Chairman Floyd again, on his seven years at PepsiCo, mostly at Taco Bell, July 7, 2002
A minimum of 120 classroom, lab, and clinical hours; a minimum of 32 clinical hours in a nursing home or hospital, final written and practical exams, and certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
― Wisconsin Nurse Aide Training Program and Registry Manual, October 2017. The median salary six months after graduation in 2001 was $19,320, or 9% above the poverty line for a family of four. Do you want fries with that?
These are among the lowest paid workers in New York State. They take care of the people who are dying, or are too infirm to bathe themselves or feed themselves. But they're so impoverished they can't provide for their own families.
― Dennis Rivera, president of SEIU Local 1199 New York, the health care workers' union newly representing 15,000 home health aides in New York city, September 12, 2002. Most are paid $6 to $7 an hour, and receive no benefits, including health insurance.
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