coronavirus
‘Imperative to take proactive steps’ to ensure farm worker safety
March 25, 2020A just completed UFW poll of farm workers on its popular Spanish-language social media platforms showed more than 90 percent had not been advised by their employers on best practices to resist the virus or been...
Read moreSides agree on $2 trillion coronavirus aid bill
March 25, 2020While the measure helps workers, corporate lobbies seized the chance to insert some multibillion-dollar goodies for themselves, too, feeding off U.S. taxpayers for $20 billion more for agribusiness and a reported $17 billion for Boeing, for...
Read moreItalian workers to strike after bosses put profits over health with coronavirus loopholes
March 25, 2020Communist Refoundation Party national secretary Maurizio Acerbo accused the government of “stabbing workers in the back.”
Read moreNurses launch campaign against CDC’s OK of bandannas and scarves
March 25, 2020Scarves and bandannas won’t do, National Nurses United says.
Read moreNew York the ‘canary in the coal mine’ for U.S.
March 25, 2020Increasing spread of the coronavirus across the city and state foreshadows massive increase in infections across the country.
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