This issue investigates clinical and ethical dimensions of how to build authentic solidarity with colleagues whose contributions are undervalued.

Good team-based care requires acknowledgement of power, compensation, and job security inequity among team members.

Cultural failure to recognize tacit knowledge explains why credential-based knowledge has higher status and prioritizes clinicians who do not care on an hour-to-hour basis for most of our country’s elders.

Reasons to actively promote the interests of health workers earning low wages are numerous and urgent.

Extraordinary changes to the legal landscape of abortion care require reevaluating health professionals’ appropriation of conscience.

Commitment to health equity demands higher pay, improved benefits, and more workplace protections for all health workers.

Interdisciplinary care requires mutual understanding, trust, and respect.

Historical perspective on how some sites and means of professional caregiving became high or low status helps us understand trends in poor care continuity in US health care.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance continues to organize around adequate labor protections for members, including care workers.

Workers essential to social functioning and safety are paid as if health care organizations would not cease functioning without them.