Labor
Amazon worker dies at Staten Island plant cited at earlier protests
May 6, 2020"Remaining an Amazon VP would have meant signing off on actions I despised, so I resigned."
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Virus conspires with drive for profit to ‘open the economy’
May 5, 2020What’s working against American families is that capitalism cannot abide by a process that allows people NOT to work, a process that shuts down the profit machine.
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30 million jobs lost so far, but many workers can’t access unemployment benefits
May 4, 2020The Economic Policy Institute says the real number is even higher.
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May Day photo essay: The Faces of Labor
April 30, 2020These are the faces of American workers - on the job in the middle of a health crisis.
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Postal Workers’ Dimondstein: USPS collapse would disenfranchise tens of millions
April 30, 2020Voting by mail is a longtime cause of both the nation’s postal unions, but it’s even more urgent in the time of a coronavirus pandemic.
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