Nursing Home Staffing Standards Finally on their Way

Pandemic Unions

            Pearl River      The Biden administration issued a minimum staffing rule for nursing homes that receive Medicaid and Medicare.  I have to quickly add:  finally!  Our union represents nursing home workers in Louisiana and Arkansas.  In bargaining contracts for homes owned by private operators every effort to bargain minimum floors for nurses, LPNs, and CNAs, …

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Getting Down to Business in Sicily

Organizer Training Organizing

            Catania           Working with the Catania University team of professors, instructors, post-docs, and PhD candidates, the dog-and-pony show about ACORN was done, the walking tour of San Berillo had been checked off, and the presentation and Q&A with interested people from their activist trainings and study groups had been completed as well, so it was …

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