DOL Takes Paid Leave Away from Low Wage Healthcare Workers

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09222020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     This is complicated, so hang with me, but here is what you need to know. Nursing home workers and other frontline healthcare providers like home health aides, and community home workers for the differently able account for perhaps the largest portion of the death …

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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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Internet as a Weapon at Home and Abroad

ACORN

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09032019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsHouston   Silicon Valley and its fans argue that tech is a tool enabled by the wonderful world of the internet.  They aren’t totally wrong, though like all tools, tech and the internet, have to be used correctly of course.  We all know that, right?  We also are …

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