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Moving to a single-payer system could enable more unions to win excellent healthcare through group practice clinics for their members—an essential next step after winning universal access to care.

“Coronavirus, Capitalism, and the Workers’ Movement”, part 1

After striking, the workers were fired en-masse earlier this week. Now, the city has found new workers to replace the striking workers - prison labor from nearby Livingston Parish. 

"Where human rights are the compass, we will be better placed to overcome this pandemic and build resilience for the future”. This includes the right to freedom of association, and to strike, without fear of retaliation.

The nurses union SEIU 121 have also filed a complaint with the state Occupational Safety and Health Administration calling nurse Cecilia Marcos' death "the result of inadequate PPE provided to staff."

A community coalition employs an alternative approach at an Alabama bus plant. (Co-published by Newsweek).

Union membership has been declining for more than a half-century. The demographic most positively disposed to unions is younger people, who spend their lives online. Reaching the next generation of union members means online organizing.

The resolution passed Thursday endorses federal legislation ensuring comprehensive healthcare coverage both for the duration of the pandemic and beyond.

John Deranamie is a 50-year-old Liberian man whose dream led him to a meatpacking plant in South Dakota. He contracted COVID-19 as part of his job.

Frontline workers in the service sector remain forgotten and treated as disposable. "No matter how much we flatten the curve these workers are most at risk.“