"...the shortage isn’t over. Health care providers from hospitals to doctors' offices to nursing homes are still having to search for PPE and ration its use." ajc.com/news/coronavir…
"Dr. Susan R. Bailey, president of the American Medical Association, said it’s hard to believe the country is still dealing with some of the same PPE shortfalls experienced during the pandemic’s early weeks. The reasons, she said, are “painful and plentiful.” #GetMePPE
“We just want there to be adequate manufacturing so we’re not dependent on overseas," Jansen said. "The whole world is wrestling with the same problem. We need PPE, they need PPE.”
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"Nursing home aides, who provide the bulk of direct care and are on the front lines in the pandemic, have high turnover and low retention related to a range of reasons from low pay to the emotional and physical demands of the job." #UnionsForAlldaytondailynews.com/news/nursing-h…
"Long term care workers now have to limit their conduct in the community, they have to watch everything they do, they have to submit to regular testing, they have to wear PPE all day,” Schwartz said."
"Nursing home worker turnover has long been a challenge in the industry, though the issue has now been underscored and heightened by the pandemic."
"Specifically, health care unions in nursing homes were associated with a 1.29 percentage point mortality reduction, or a 30% relative decrease in COVID-19 mortality compared with nursing homes without organized workforces, the study found." skillednursingnews.com/2020/09/unioni…
“Unions were also associated with greater access to PPE, one mechanism that may link unions to lower COVID-19 mortality rates..."
"Access to PPE is a crucial part of protecting the frontline nursing home workers and the residents for whom they care, and the study found that unionized buildings had better access to some of the most needed items during the COVID-19 pandemic."
President Becky Williams calls on Sen. Huffman to resign, calls remarks “blatantly racist. seiu1199.org/president-beck…
In response to the remarks by Ohio State Senator Steve Huffman (R-Tipp City) about COVID-19 and the Black community, SEIU District 1199 President Becky Williams issued the following statement:
“The comments made by Ohio State Senator Steve Huffman have no place in our society and certainly have no place in the Ohio Senate.” (1/6)
Our experience teaches us that “divide and conquer” strategies are often used to keep working people from coming together to build a better future for all families and race has been one of the most powerful ways to pit working people against one another.
Together in union, people from different places and of different races fight for issues that matter to our families.
No matter where we come from or what we look like, we all deserve an equitable chance to pursue our dreams. At SEIU, we are coming together to reject the politics of hate and division.