Coronavirus Policy and Financial Failures Put Nursing Home Workers at Risk

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03042020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans       Is the coronavirus a pandemic and economic catastrophe or a hiccup along the road to progress as the President promises?  Who knows?  What already seems clear is that for all of the talk about China not being ready for this, it also seems …

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A Top-ish Down Twist on a Bottom-up Campaign

ACORN ACORN International Community Organizing Labor Organizing Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/CN02022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       At the Year End – Year Begin meeting of our principal North American organizers with ACORN and Local 100 United Labor Unions at NO-MAC at the Rathke Residence in New Orleans, we continued to push out the discussion on ways to expand our mass-based …

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Hoppers Take a Stand on Unfair Labor Practices

Labor Organizing Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11122019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans        Local 100, United Labor Unions, has represented hoppers for more than twenty-five years.  The hopper is a mechanical term of art on a garbage truck.  It’s the round cylinder at back of the truck where the garbage is collected and crushed before heading to …

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