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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Workers Demanding Pandemic Protection

Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09182020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Local 100 United Labor Unions members continue in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas to speak up and confront their employers, both public and private, about the inadequate health and safety plans at their workplaces.  Having written requesting copies of the plans with most employers not …

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Firing Workers for Off-the-Job Protests

Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09172020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      A small notice in an email caught my eye.  A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) attorney in a newly released guidance letter wanted to make sure that employers knew that it was alright to fire workers who are involved in advocating for police reform …

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