Report From a Childcare Worker I have run a preschool/daycare out of my home for the past 15 years. As of March 1, 2020 there was a full class of 13 students a day, a wait list, and 2 other employees. By the beginning of April, due to parents and children staying home...
Starting May 6, New York City’s subway system is shuttered every night between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. for cleaning and disinfecting during the pandemic. The subways have always run at night to accommodate more than one hundred thousand workers on the second or third shift....
On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. Here is the link to his blog, in which he expresses his thoughts. He saw Amazon warehouse workers get fired for speaking out against unsafe COVID-19...
Report From a BART Worker The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system, known as BART, is considered “essential” and continues to be operational during the shelter-in-place order. The system was already chronically understaffed before this crisis. On top of this,...
On May 1, International Workers’ Day, some workers at Amazon, Instacart, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and Shipt (owned by Amazon and Target) took action to protest their low pay, unsafe conditions, and the astronomical profits the bosses are making from their work....
