health and safety
Why no COVID vaccine requirements for S.F. Giants fans?
September 20, 2021Food service workers have to get the shot or have a negative test—but fans cheering and shouting in a packed stadium threaten workers and themselves.
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Now on Newsom’s desk: social justice, ethnic studies, worker protections, and payments
September 17, 2021Some 900 bills improving conditions for the majority in California await the governor’s signature.
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Transit Union says Maryland bus driver’s murder emphasizes need to protect workers
August 27, 2021Isaac Caldwell, an ATU Local 1764 member and bus driver, is the third Baltimore transit worker shot to death in the past year.
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Time for another kind of ‘climate change’: Unions!
August 23, 2021The latest from People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney.
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Hot weather becomes major cause of illness, death for U.S. workers
August 20, 2021The number of victims of the largely ignored danger grows in Arizona and many other states as global warming-induced heat fells workers on the job.
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