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Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves

Pandemics Can Mean Strike Waves Jacobin
During the Spanish Flu in 1919 four million workers struck, one-fifth of the workforce, a proportion never since equaled.

Why GE Workers Walked Out in Lynn

Jeff Crosby The Nation
As employers use the coronavirus crisis to consolidate power and wealth, we need to build activism and organization.

'You Can Find Us in the Break Room': How Nurses Got Masks

Elizabeth Lalasz Labor Notes
Since February, our core of stewards and activists had been pressuring management through emails and meetings to demand that the optimal personal protective equipment (PPE) of N-95 masks, and in person training be made readily available to us.