Worker Safety
House panel probes meatpackers’ refusal to protect workers from virus
February 10, 2021Action shows the seriousness with which the new administration is treating worker safety.
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Seis trabajadores mueren en la planta de procesamiento avícola de Georgia
February 2, 2021Las víctimas: José DeJesus Elias-Cabrera, de 45 años, de Gainesville; Corey Alan Murphy, de Clermont, de 35 años; Nelly Perez-Rafael, de Gainesville, de 28 años; Saulo Suarez-Bernal, de 41 años, de Dawsonville; Víctor Vellez de Gainesville,...
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India’s food delivery workers strike over drastic cuts in pay
August 25, 2020Food delivery workers say they can’t survive on 20 cents per delivery.
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Meatpackers hit for discrimination against workers of color in virus protection
July 16, 2020The nation’s big meatpackers, notably Tyson Foods and JBS, are racially discriminating against their predominantly brown, Black, and Asian front-line labor force.
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COVID-19 deaths among nurses: U.S. 91, Canada 0. Why?
May 12, 2020Hundreds of nurses from both countries listen in on a call arranged by their union that lays the blame for the deaths in the U.S. at the feet of the health care system.
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