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The Perils of Putting Profits before Patients: Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients

The Perils of Putting Profits before Patients: Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting... 106 New Labor Forum 23(3) transparency. This, and the bracing story of Language of Neoliberalism (Chicago, 2008) and a co- editor of Marxism and Social Movements (Brill 2013; Gambino crime-family influence in the bus- Haymarket 2014) and numerous articles on work, drivers’ union and of former Central Labor urban politics, and labor and community organizing. Council president’s Brian McLaughlin’s habit- ual thievery also suggests that complicity with corruption suits those who would defend public workers’ right to unionize but not their right to The Perils of Putting Profits control their organizations. before Patients Finally, Steier shines brightest in his dissection of arguments currently made about the Variable Zuberi, Dan. Cleaning Up: How Hospital Supplements Fund (VSF), a forty-year-old agree- Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering ment between the police and firefighters’ unions Patients. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, and the City to share excess profits on pension- 2013. ISBN-13 978-0801478963. fund investments in the stock market. A deal reached during the Koch administration traded Reviewed by: Rebecca Kolins Givan “uncertainty for certainty” by converting the VSF DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542470 into a fixed cash payment, paid regardless of stock-market performance. Derided by conserva- tives as a juicy “Christmas Bonus” paid at http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The Perils of Putting Profits before Patients: Cleaning Up: How Hospital Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering Patients

Givan, Rebecca Kolins
New Labor Forum , Volume 23 (3): 3 – Sep 1, 2014
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106 New Labor Forum 23(3) transparency. This, and the bracing story of Language of Neoliberalism (Chicago, 2008) and a co- editor of Marxism and Social Movements (Brill 2013; Gambino crime-family influence in the bus- Haymarket 2014) and numerous articles on work, drivers’ union and of former Central Labor urban politics, and labor and community organizing. Council president’s Brian McLaughlin’s habit- ual thievery also suggests that complicity with corruption suits those who would defend public workers’ right to unionize but not their right to The Perils of Putting Profits control their organizations. before Patients Finally, Steier shines brightest in his dissection of arguments currently made about the Variable Zuberi, Dan. Cleaning Up: How Hospital Supplements Fund (VSF), a forty-year-old agree- Outsourcing Is Hurting Workers and Endangering ment between the police and firefighters’ unions Patients. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, and the City to share excess profits on pension- 2013. ISBN-13 978-0801478963. fund investments in the stock market. A deal reached during the Koch administration traded Reviewed by: Rebecca Kolins Givan “uncertainty for certainty” by converting the VSF DOI: 10.1177/1095796014542470 into a fixed cash payment, paid regardless of stock-market performance. Derided by conserva- tives as a juicy “Christmas Bonus” paid at

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Published: Sep 1, 2014

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