I got COVID-19 working at Ralphs. We need a voice in workplace safety
From today’s Los Angeles Times: After spending seven weeks isolated in my bedroom sick with COVID-19, I stood in front of the Ralphs grocery store where I work, bracing to…
How COVID-19 turned a spotlight on weak worker rights in the U.S.
From today’s Harvard Gazette: As the economy reopens after the COVID-19 shutdowns, businesses are taking a varied, often patchwork approach to ensuring health and safety for their workers, and much…
A Hidden COVID-19 Risk Factor: Your Employer Policy on Paid Sick Leave
From today’s Atlantic Magazine: When the coronavirus first hit the United States, some politicians referred to it as the “great equalizer” because it supposedly didn’t discriminate. But very soon, that…
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Strikes erupt as US essential workers demand protection amid pandemic
From The Guardian Online: Wildcat strikes, walkouts and protests over working conditions have erupted across the US throughout the coronavirus pandemic as “essential” workers have demanded better pay and safer…
Congress calls essential workers ‘heroes,’ hasn’t passed hazard pay raise
From today’s CNBC News: Anyone listening to congressional leaders speak during the coronavirus outbreak has heard a lot about the “heroes” sustaining the rest of the country. Senate Majority Leader…
5 questions answered about workers’ rights during the coronavirus pandemic
From today’s PBS NewsHour Online: Roughly 26 million have filed for unemployment benefits in the United States the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of others are risking safety to…
How the Coronavirus Could Create a New Working Class
From today’s Atlantic Online: Late last month, a photo circulated of delivery drivers crowding around Carbone, a Michelin-starred Greenwich Village restaurant, waiting to pick up $32 rigatoni and bring it…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants a bill of rights for essential workers
From today’s Boston.com: Elizabeth Warren says the next coronavirus relief package should “put all workers front and center.” But the Massachusetts senator is also proposing a slate of new protections…
Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus
From today’s Washington Post: Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths, leading to store closures and increasing anxiety among grocery workers as the pandemic intensifies…
Amazon, Instacart Workers Demand Coronavirus Protection And Pay
From NPR News Online: Some Amazon warehouse workers in Staten Island, N.Y., and Instacart’s grocery delivery workers nationwide walked off their jobs on Monday. They are demanding stepped-up protection and…