health and safety
Québec workers fight back against government’s corporate-friendly COVID-19 response
July 29, 2020Just like everywhere else, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the economy, with governments and capital straining to contain progressive resistance to their corporate-friendly management of the crisis.
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150,000 dead of coronavirus in U.S.: What monument will they have?
July 28, 2020We have a collective grief to deal with in our land, yet from our highest tribunes all we hear is, “This will be over sooner than you know it, get back to work."
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San Quentin vigil says incarceration has become a death sentence
July 27, 2020The coronavirus infection spread rapidly through San Quentin. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [CDCR], as of the date of the vigil, there were 928 active cases and eleven prisoners had died.
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Dr. Fauci: U.S. closed only half the country to battle the coronavirus
July 27, 2020WASHINGTON—The U.S. “shut down about 50% of the country” and is now paying the price in a rebound of daily coronavirus cases, the nation’s top expert on such diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, says. And in that...
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Meatpackers sue OSHA demanding virus safety enforcement at Maid-Rite plant
July 24, 2020The workers said in their lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg that even though OSHA has known about conditions at the plant since early April, it’s done nothing.
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