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The masks are coming off
Health workers have become regular victims of violence, easy targets for a society that vents its anger against those who are there to care for others.
AFL-CIO report finds that workers of color are dying on the job at increasingly higher rates. Black workers’ job fatality rate is the highest it’s been in nearly 15 years. Latino workers continue to face the greatest risk of dying on the job.
Federal safety authority Osha has imposed millions in fines on discount retailer which is largest retail chain in US.
The labor bill includes a wish list years in the making that will affect virtually every worker in the state and could be the most significant bill in state history.
Republicans in Congress have already filed bills to undermine labor rights, eliminate the agency that oversees workplace safety, and roll back wage protections.
Freight train drivers who direct 20 billion tons of goods per year have threatened to walk off the job.
Attacks on health care workers have reached epidemic levels across the country, exacerbating turnover, turning caregivers into patients and further fraying systems of care already worn thin by COVID-19.
Workers who bore the brunt of the Covid pandemic at billion-dollar companies such as Dollar General, McDonald’s and Wendy’s are leading a surge in action.
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