Nurses are absolutely right to protest the conditions that are too often directly lending toward further exposure for these frontline workers.
Posts published by “Michael Louis”
Michael Louis is the president of the Missouri AFL-CIO.
I have maintained the position, despite criticism, that our health survivability is inextricably linked to our economic sustainability.
Based on my experience of being a poll worker during a pandemic, I am convinced that having more voting options is critical.
Opinion: Nurses are putting our lives on the line. Support us, don’t attack our ability to speak out
Opinion: Nurses are putting our lives on the line. Support us, don’t attack our ability to speak out
Through it all, especially when facing an employer who refuses to put our safety and our patients' safety above their bottom line, we need a collective voice to advocate for our patients and ourselves.
The issue of not taxing internet sales in Missouri was a very important one to retailers and government agencies prior even to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Governor Parson issued a primarily mild stay at home order on April 6, set to expire on April 24. It should expire today.
Nurses should freely exercise their First Amendment rights, but a large national labor union pushing for employee unrest at the peak of the most crushing global pandemic is just plain wrong.
As a veteran, I know that coronavirus isn’t the only public health crisis that members of the military are facing right now.
Terminating the insurance of Medicaid-eligible Missourians puts us all at risk. Missouri should implement SB 514’s Medicaid suspension amendment immediately.
Even when workers get sick and elected officials order quarantines, agriculture must go on.