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They didn’t have proper PPE: These Black health care workers got the vaccine. They say distrust isn’t just historical

By: WHYY, Sojourner Ahébée - March 2, 2021 - Keta White is a Black health care worker at Germantown Home, in Philadelphia’s Mount Airy neighborhood. And she’s one of 13,000 members of District 1199C, a majority Black- and brown-led union that represents Black workers in all fields in the major health care institutions in the city — behavioral, mental health, and child care facilities, as well as employees who provide health care services within the city’s prison systems.( Click for Details )

Governor Wolf Awards Over $2 Million to Direct Care Workforce Crisis

“This funding will allow District 1199C to work with important partners in the labor movement as well as Employers to improve care options. By providing quality training and education tools that will result in allowing the workforce to be successful in their career paths as they continue to grow and provide direct care for the most vulnerable within hospitals, long term care facilities, and at their homes.” District 1199C is proud to be involved in this effort and believe that we will continue to improve the patient experience”. Elyse Ford, Vice President( Click for Details )

This Philadelphia Newspaper Is Forcing Its Employees to Work from the Office During COVID-19

by VICTOR FIORILLO: Philadelphia Tribune Bans Employees from Working Remotely During COVID-19. If you know any journalists in town, chances are they are working remotely these days. Most of us here at Philly Mag haven’t stepped into the office in months. Inquirer staffers don’t expect to report to the office en masse until 2021. Just turn on the local TV news and you’ll see many reporters broadcasting from their well-staged living rooms. But things are much different at the Philadelphia Tribune, where reporters, editors — hell, the entire staff, from what I’ve been told — have been forced to return to the office amid the COVID-19 pandemic.( Click for Details )