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Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Naropa University Announces Dr. Jasmine Syedullah as 2021 Lenz Foundation Distinguished Guest . Naropa UniversityJanuary 22, 2021 GMT Boulder, CO, Jan. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Naropa University is happy to announce Jasmine Syedullah, PhD, as the 2021 Fredrick P. Lenz Foundation Distinguished Guest Lecturer. Syedullah is a black feminist political theorist of abolition and holds the first Assistant Professor line in Vassar College’s Africana Studies Program. Syedullah will offer a free, public lecture on February 4th at 6 pm (MST), on “Surviving White Supremacy: Towards a Radical Dharma of Staying Fugitive” that will be broadcast live on Naropa’s Facebook page and YouTube Channel. Syedullah’s lecture will take us beyond binary moments of allegiance with antiracism efforts into The Radical Dharma Framework for Liberation. Her talk will outline “a collective, ....
Help Save People s World The economic crisis has hit People s World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. VA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care December 23, 2020 8:51 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Nurses and other Veterans Administration employees join a demonstration organized by National Nurses United outside the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Medical Center, April 6, 2020, in New York, to call for more personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing assistance to care for those affected by the current coronavirus outbreak. Eight months later, VA workers say major problems remain. | Kathy Willens / AP WASHINGTON Short-staffing. Temp nurses hired off the street who are more interested in paychecks than patients. No N95 masks for months. Arbitrary management decisions with workers and their union cut out of the ....
Help Save People s World The economic crisis has hit People s World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. VA workers: Short-staffing and PPE shortages impacting vets’ care December 23, 2020 8:51 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg Nurses and other Veterans Administration employees join a demonstration organized by National Nurses United outside the Brooklyn Veterans Administration Medical Center, April 6, 2020, in New York, to call for more personal protective equipment (PPE) and staffing assistance to care for those affected by the current coronavirus outbreak. Eight months later, VA workers say major problems remain. | Kathy Willens / AP WASHINGTON Short-staffing. Temp nurses hired off the street who are more interested in paychecks than patients. No N95 masks for months. Arbitrary management decisions with workers and their union cut out of the ....
The lack of national direction from the Department of Veterans Affairs on issuance of pandemic premium pay has left regional VA networks and local facilities to decide which employees get additional pay for working on the front lines of the pandemic and how much. Premium pay is an umbrella term for additions to base pay, said Thomas Dargon, staff council at the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents 260,000 VA employees. There isn t a national VA policy guiding its distribution during COVID-19, he said. At the St. Albans Community Living Center in Queens, N.Y., premium pay hasn t necessarily been given to all employees on the front lines working with COVID-19 patients, said Geddes Scott, the president of AFGE local 1988 in Queens, N.Y., in a press call hosted by AFGE. ....
VA workers feel ‘shut out’ of COVID planning December 16, 2020 American Federation of Government Employees officials said that Veterans Affairs facilities have kept them out of the decision making process to address COVID-19. (John Minchillo/AP) Employees across various Department of Veterans Affairs facilities are being kept out of the loop as their leaders make plans to address COVID-19 needs and staffing challenges, American Federation of Government Employees officials said on a Dec. 16 press call. “The leadership keeps the union out of all decisions, no pre-decisional [consultation] at all. We don’t know how many masks we have; we do not know the amount of COVID [positive] employees running around,” said Regina Smith, president of AFGE Local 424 at the Baltimore VAMC. ....