As businesses around the country start to open up, those of us who still have jobs have to think about how much protection against infection there will be for us when we return to work. New York City building service companies laid off 6,000 janitors when Manhattan...
Download as PDF Roots of the Strike Wave The Oakland teachers strike of 2019 was part of a nationwide movement to defend public education. The strike wave began in West Virginia in 2018 and quickly spread to Oklahoma, Arizona, Kentucky, North Carolina, Colorado, and...
On March 28, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York stopped working due to illness. On April 9 he died as a result of COVID-19. Leigh was 59 years old, leaving behind a daughter and grandchildren. At the warehouse he was a...
Since the pandemic began, 22 million Americans have lost their jobs and are scrambling to figure out what to do, but the billionaires in the United States have increased their wealth by 10 percent. While we were suffering, they were pocketing $282 billion more...
California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Because of the statewide lockdown, he projected a 54 billion dollar deficit over the next two years and said he was left with no choice but to propose cuts to state...
