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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The West Stays Weird

DC Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/CN08022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      We humped the highway back home through Texas.  It was a great trip.  It was time.   We have some observations for what they are worth. We read that the governor of New Mexico is angling for a job in a potential, hoped for Biden …

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