Workers at companies that offer poor pay and unsafe working conditions now know they are essential. And many expect to be treated that way.
Some Instacart and Amazon warehouse workers have walked off the job to demand greater safeguards against the coronavirus, even as both companies are speed-hiring hundreds of thousands of new workers to handle a surge in delivery orders.
Pandemic is a systemic crisis of capitalism, and the responses worldwide foretell systemic changes.
The historic vote comes amid growing discontent among employees at technology companies such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, who have started to organize.
“We’re not against teaching students career skills” that could eventually help them find employment, Flinn explained. “We’re against corporations writing the curriculum.”
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