health and safety
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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Grocery worker sees fascist thinking at root of anti-mask campaign
August 28, 2020Really the underlying logic behind protesting the masks goes back further than even the coronavirus pandemic—it’s the cult of the individual.
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After crippling mail delivery, Trump now sabotages COVID-19 testing
August 27, 2020CDC issues new directive saying testing of asymptomatic people is unnecessary.
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