Archive for March, 2022

March is Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month.  Throughout this Month we will bring you the stories of women who are moving the labor movement forward.  Meet Sanchioni Butler, a union organizer in Mississippi who is part of the effort to organize more southern women at Nissan. Her story is captured in the And Still I Rise project, …

Direct Support Worker Crisis

Direct Support Worker Crisis

The Arc, the nation’s largest community-based advocacy organization for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities is calling on Congress to develop policies that enable IDD persons to live their fullest lives and to provide adequate funding for home-based programs that make it possible: A well-trained, fairly compensated, and respected direct support professional (DSP) workforce is …