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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San Berillo Conundrum

Community Development Community Organizations International Housing Organizing

            Catania           San Berillo proper, we might say, is a historic district near the city center of Catania, the second-largest city in Sicily.  The narrow alleys and unique, but too often deteriorated and hardly habitable housing structures, all tell stories of life, history, and the culture of the community. Now as I walked for several …

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