Nursing Home Workers Still Lack PPE in Florida
Miami Fl, – Months into the COVID-19 crisis, and with the numbers of confirmed cases spiking in Florida’s long-term care (LTC) facilities, nursing home workers still are facing dangerous shortages
Miami Fl, – Months into the COVID-19 crisis, and with the numbers of confirmed cases spiking in Florida’s long-term care (LTC) facilities, nursing home workers still are facing dangerous shortages
Editor’s Note: This report is based on conversations with Nurse T., who works in a New York hospital ICU that serves an impoverished Black and Hispanic community. New York, NY
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Washington DC – The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) – is opposed to the re-opening of 14 meatpacking plants mandated to open by President Trump’s executive order.
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WASHINGTON—With in-person voting hampered by social distancing, a group of 14 major labor unions is urging Congress to direct the National Labor Relations Board [NLRB] to develop procedures for electronic
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