health and safety
Employers fail to control COVID, but Sri Lankan army rounds up workers instead
October 22, 2020Unions say the army entered garment workers’ dorms at night without notice, forcing them to immediately move to quarantine centers.
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Massive union coalition takes Trump to court over coronavirus PPE failure
October 22, 2020Just days before the election, the Trump administration's failure to protect frontline workers is back in the spotlight.
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Former CDC head: Trump policy resulted in coronavirus ‘slaughter’
October 8, 2020Epidemiologist who led the fight to eradicate smallpox calls on Redfield to resign.
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Northwestern food workers ‘die-in’ for COVID protections
October 2, 2020Is it too much to ask for an institution sitting on an $11 billion dollar endowment to provide sick pay for 14 days for an employee under a coronavirus quarantine?
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United Food and Commercial Workers: OSHA’s Smithfield fine ‘a slap on the wrist’
September 14, 2020WASHINGTON—The Trump regime’s $13,494 fine against the infamous Smithfield pork production plant in Sioux Falls, S.D.—a plant where company failure to protect workers against the coronavirus infected at least 1,300 of them and endangered the whole...
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