The Nursing Home Business Model is Deadly

Health Care Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08232020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     Nursing homes have been a huge source of deaths in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic.  Local 100 represents a number of private and public homes, as well as other healthcare facilities, so has been with our workers at the razor edge.  On a …

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Testing Works, but It Takes Organizing and Resources

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08222020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     If there’s any consensus about dealing with Covid-19, it involves the critical role of testing right now, and a vaccine down the line.  Testing allows all of us and especially public health workers and epidemiologists to identify positive individuals, potential asymptomatic carriers, and, most importantly, …

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Convention Lite without any Bite

Protests

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     I actually know a lot about the national political conventions, both Republican and Democratic.  ACORN was well represented every four years from the 1978 Memphis midterm under President Carter to 1980 in New York and Detroit, Dallas with the Republicans and Ronald Reagan in …

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