Does Mental Illness Count As Illness?
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Not in the Fifth Circuit !
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Not in the Fifth Circuit !
Not in the Fifth Circuit !
Tidbits- Sept 18 -Readers Comments: Charlie Kirk Killing Excuse for Authoritarianism, Fascism; Real Reason for Attacks Against Us; Medicare To Require Prior Approval for Some Procedures; Attack on Environmental Protections a Cancer Pollution Risk
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Readers Comments: Charlie Kirk Killing Excuse for Authoritarianism, Fascism; Real Reason for the Attacks Against Us; Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures; Attack on Environmental Protections to Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution
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How Trump Wants To Make One of the Most Dangerous Jobs in America Even Worse
Vox
The president’s cruel, reckless plan to speed up slaughterhouse lines, explained in one chart.
This Is What Happens When Workers Don’t Control Their Own Lives
The New York Times
For a vast majority of Americans democracy ends when work hours begin. Most people in this country are subject, as workers, to the nearly unmediated authority of their employers, which can discipline, sanction or fire them for nearly any reason
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Did You Know That ‘Long Hours & Dangerous Conditions’ On The Frankenstein Sets Led Legendary Actor Boris Karloff To Get Behind The Movement To Unionize Screen Actors?
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Karloff Wasn’t The ‘Only One’ Who ‘Saw The Worth’ In Having a Union In The Workplace, Dracula Star Bela Lugosi Was Also ‘Pro-Union’ - Karloff & Lugosi Both Actively Organized Sets & Convincingly ‘Made the Case’ for Actors to ‘Go Union’
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Danger at the Mask Factory
Los Angeles Times
Advocates and workers say Los Angeles Apparel failed to come clean about its coronavirus outbreak, creating a climate of fear.
Tidbits - June 18, 2020 - Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending ; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...
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Reader Comments: Juneteenth events in Defense of Black Lives - find one near you; Police; Police and Military Spending Must Be Cut; Right to Refuse Unsafe Work; Remembering Berta Cáceres; Resources; Announcements; More...
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Coronavirus at Smithfield Pork Plant: The Untold Story of America's Biggest Outbreak
BBC
How did the biggest cluster in the US emerge in a corner of South Dakota? Infections spread like wildfire through a pork factory and questions remain about what the company did to protect staff.
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The Silent Death of Workers in India
Equal Times
India's labor market primarily operates within the informal sector and is fraught with the most precarious of conditions, but in an environment where workers can lose their jobs for speaking out, most keep quiet to survive.
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Inside Tesla’s factory, a Medical Clinic Designed to Ignore Injured Workers
Reveal
“You go to Tesla and you think it’s going to be this innovative, great wonderful place to be, like this kind of futuristic company. And I guess it’s just kind of disappointing that that’s our future, basically, where the worker still doesn't matter."
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