Labor
Kroger closes grocery stores to avoid COVID hazard pay for workers
March 11, 2021One of the most profitable corporations in the United States is threatening grocery workers’ jobs in response to a new coronavirus-era hazard pay requirement.
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Rep. Tim Ryan’s PRO Act speech goes viral: “Help the damn workers”
March 10, 2021Heaven forbid Congress do anything to help workers.
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PRO Act passes House, Senate Republicans plan to kill it
March 10, 2021Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., declared: “This bill seeks to empower workers who build our country—and who are being oppressed within this plantation capitalist system.”
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Republican governors rush to drop mask mandates, workers fear for safety
March 8, 2021Molly Brooks, 25, a barista at a Texas, coffee shop, said she has regularly dealt with customers who walked out or bullied her and her colleagues when they were asked to wear a mask.
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Montana defeats ‘right to work’; W. Va. governor admits it’s failed his state
March 5, 2021The continuing drive by the corporate class and their right-wing GOP puppets to impose “right to work” around the U.S. is taking some hits.
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