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Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva took on gig work platforms. “We’re not against someone working [by] delivering food on a bike,” said Lula during a union event. “We’re against them not having rights."

Forced to continue working in hazardous conditions, New York City workers had to help themselves and each other during a sudden dangerous decline in air quality last week.

What happens next depends on Amazon, the workers, and the interpretation of outdated US labor law.