health and safety

AFT’s Weingarten, union nurses: Force firms to produce life-saving devices

March 24, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

“Why should the supplies be controlled by the market, not by the government?” Weingarten asked.

I’m an “essential” worker…or, how I learned to love negative solidarity

March 24, 2020 By Michael Villanova

Like 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.

California governor issues statewide stay-at-home order to fight COVID-19

March 20, 2020 By Marilyn Bechtel

As 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.

Fighting COVID-19 in Cuba, China, and the United States

March 20, 2020 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

What kinds of tools do governments have at their disposal to protect lives and health?

Coronavirus clean-up: Sanitation workers face increased risk, job loss

March 20, 2020 By C.J. Atkins

Dealing with all the trash society produces is a dirty and dangerous job even in normal times; during a global health pandemic, it gets even riskier.