Nat LaCour and Labor’s Legacy

Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CN10252020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     In the more than forty years that I have known Nat LaCour, I had never known his full name was Nathaniel Hawthorne LaCour until I regrettably had to read his obituary when he passed away recently at 82 years of age.  I bet there was …

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Workers Demanding Pandemic Protection

Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Local 100 United Labor Unions members continue in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to speak up and confront their employers, both public and private, about the inadequate health and safety plans at their workplaces.  Having written requesting copies of the plans with most employers not …

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Where’s the Health and Safety Plan?

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https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09112020realone.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Leaders and members of Local 100 United Labor Unions finally had enough of working on the frontlines without proper protection against the coronavirus in nursing homes, supported living centers, human development centers, transportation, sanitation, cleaning, schools, head start centers, and public-facing offices.  OSHA, the …

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