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Alabama Amazon worker testifies before Congress: “We’re not robots.”

March 18, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Amazon worker Jennifer Bates brought the details to a March 17 Senate Budget Committee hearing on the growing chasm between the rich and the rest of us.

OSHA targets coronavirus inspections to health care, meatpacking firms

March 17, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

As it carries out Biden’s orders it will focus on going after firms that retaliate against whistleblowers.

Maine Medical Center nurses want a union, need support

March 16, 2021 By Sheila Malone RN

University of Southern Maine economics professor Michael Hillard said recently that the union-organizing campaign occurs at a crucial time.

San Francisco: $5/hour COVID hazard pay for grocery, pharmacy workers

March 12, 2021 By Marilyn Bechtel

Late last month, a UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll found 77% of Californians support hazard pay legislation for frontline essential workers.

Kroger closes grocery stores to avoid COVID hazard pay for workers

March 11, 2021 By Special to People’s World

One of the most profitable corporations in the United States is threatening grocery workers’ jobs in response to a new coronavirus-era hazard pay requirement.