“Essentially” Expendable: Construction Work in COVID Times
Spectre
DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONTLINES OF CARE: Canadian Construction Work
No Good Options for Migrant Workers in Gulf COVID-19 Lockdown
Middle East Research and Information Project
Infection in the Gulf is growing rapidly. On April 14, 2020, the Gulf States collectively reported 16,613 cases of COVID-19. By April 29, the Gulf States have 50,572 cases.
May Day statement from industriALL
industriall Global Union
Coronavirus has created a unique May Day: for the first time in 130 years, workers of the world will not take to the streets. Physical distancing, however, doesn’t mean that we are far away from each other: we should stay together in solidarity.
States Tell Workers They'll Lose Unemployment Benefits if They Refuse to Return to Jobs
The Hill
States tell workers they'll lose unemployment benefits if they refuse to return to jobs.
Pandemic Job Actions Offer Hope for Renewed Labor Movement
AP
Front-line workers are staging job action after job action in their quest for protection from the coronavirus
The U.S. Labor Movement during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Medium.com
Eric Dirnbach looks at a range of labor movement actions and resources that have developed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic disaster. The coronavirus crisis reminds us that workers must organize to save themselves.
VA Workers Say Southern States Reopening Too Soon Puts Veterans’ Lives At Risk
In These Times
As Republican governors across the South gear up to reopen businesses in their states over the objections of public health experts, health care workers for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)fear for their vulnerable patients, and for themselves.
Trader Joe’s and Other's Suppress Unionization Efforts During Pandemic
The Guardian
As workers become increasingly concerned about workplace safety, employers have been suppressing organizing efforts
Coronavirus at the Bottom of the Supply Chain
The Nation
The coronavirus will likely strike the Global South more viciously than it is currently hitting the United States and other well-off nations. The pandemic has the potential to devastate poorer nations with weak health care systems.
Capitalism Is Failing Its Coronavirus Stress Test—Only Workers Can Turn Things Around
In These Times
Labor unions today have the political opportunity and moral responsibility to help organize a movement of the whole working class, organized and unorganized alike, to fight for the safety and welfare protections that we all deserve.
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