Politics

Farmworkers are “essential” but excluded, awaiting the virus

April 1, 2020 By David Bacon

In fields and rural communities across the United States the nation's 2.5 million agricultural laborers are waiting for the shoe to drop.

Workers strike over safety failures; progressives hatch plans for next stimulus

March 31, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

“Whatever plan we put together must be totally focused on workers,” Association of Flight Attendants-CWA President Nelson declared.

Lots of cash, including pro-worker cash; very little pro-worker policy

March 27, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

The $2.2 trillion coronavirus economic impact bill Congress President Donald Trump says he will sign contains a lot of pro-worker cash – and very little pro-worker policy.

States largely fend for themselves in race against coronavirus pandemic

March 26, 2020 By John Bachtell

Illinois governor to Trump: “You should be leading a national response instead of throwing tantrums from the back seat……Get off Twitter and do your job.”

Timeline: Early testing failures and Trump inaction crippled U.S. coronavirus response

March 25, 2020 By Michael Biesecker, Mike Stobbe And Matthew Perrone

“They took this as business as usual...the messaging from the White House was ‘this is not a big deal, this is no worse than the flu.’" By then, it was too late.