health and safety
As transit systems shut down workers battle virus and job loss
March 30, 2020“Our members should have masks, gloves and other personal protective equipment. Transit agencies should enact rear door boarding, consider eliminating fares, develop strategic service continuation to avoid overcrowding and establish other policies to cut down on...
Read more
AFT’s Weingarten, union nurses: Force firms to produce life-saving devices
March 24, 2020“Why should the supplies be controlled by the market, not by the government?” Weingarten asked.
Read more
I’m an “essential” worker…or, how I learned to love negative solidarity
March 24, 2020Like millions of other “essential” workers, this is the predicament we’re in: Stay home and possibly starve or go to work and risk the health of thousands of people.
Read more
California governor issues statewide stay-at-home order to fight COVID-19
March 20, 2020As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in California continued to rise sharply, Governor Gavin Newsom on March 19 ordered the state’s 40 million residents to remain at home.
Read more
Fighting COVID-19 in Cuba, China, and the United States
March 20, 2020What kinds of tools do governments have at their disposal to protect lives and health?
Read more