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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Coronavirus Gutting Platform Capitalism and Promoting A Real Safety Net
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03112020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans As the virus and its impact spreads, it is creating a new world of unexpected consequences and reckonings for outdated assumptions. Here’s one that might be uncomfortable news for the White House: we do live in one world, and walls will not protect us. …
Experience Shows Little Reason to Oppose Sick Leave Policies
Miami Gradually the community-labor campaign for paid sick leave in various states and cities is quietly making progress even in the throes of the Great Recession. Connecticut has passed such a policy statewide. San Francisco has had a policy in effect since 2007 giving 1 hour of sick leave (usable for a variety of purposes) for …