{"id":10327,"date":"2026-04-25T20:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2026-04-25T20:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:08:56","slug":"union-paramedic-treats-income-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2026\/04\/25\/union-paramedic-treats-income-inequality\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Paramedic Treats Income Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United Steelworkers just elected their first female President of their International. Roxanne Brown showcases her writing in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.laprogressive.com\/labor-social-justice\/epidemic-of-inequality\"> This Union Paramedic Treats an Epidemic of Inequality<\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Dominick Sapien and a fellow paramedic arrived at a home in Central Wyoming to find the victim of a fall lying helpless on the floor, one knee split in half, part of the mangled mass of flesh and bone jiggling up and down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sapien, president of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 9012, prepared to transport the person to the hospital for emergency surgery. But the patient, writhing in pain and unable to move without help, balked at going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI can\u2019t,\u201d the patient said, describing the cost of an ambulance ride and hospital care as simply unaffordable. \u201cI\u2019ll just rest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-poverty-96293_1280-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-poverty-96293_1280-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-poverty-96293_1280-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-poverty-96293_1280-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/geralt-poverty-96293_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/geralt-9301\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=96293\">Gerd Altmann<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=96293\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Steelworkers just elected their first female President of their International. Roxanne Brown showcases her writing in This Union Paramedic Treats an Epidemic of Inequality&#8230;. Dominick Sapien and a fellow paramedic arrived at a home in Central Wyoming to find the victim of a fall lying helpless on the floor, one knee split in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10329,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions\/10329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}