Labor
Day of action today to push Essential Workers Bill of Rights
May 7, 2020The point is “to rise up in solidarity with essential workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis."
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Amazon workers on May Day: Protect us from this virus
May 7, 2020They called it Essential Workers Day, a good name for May Day this year in recognition of their work during the pandemic.
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May Day Voices: Strikers in Massachusetts
May 6, 2020“We want to send the clear message that sanctions are a form of warfare, and our government and our people have a responsibility to stop these murderous policies at home and abroad.”
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Amazon worker dies at Staten Island plant cited at earlier protests
May 6, 2020"Remaining an Amazon VP would have meant signing off on actions I despised, so I resigned."
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Virus conspires with drive for profit to ‘open the economy’
May 5, 2020What’s working against American families is that capitalism cannot abide by a process that allows people NOT to work, a process that shuts down the profit machine.
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