Conservative Majority Rewrites the Fifth Amendment to Bar Union Organizers from Farms
Author: Joe Maniscalco
Ticker Tape and Empty Accolades Are Meant to Keep Frontline Covid Workers in Check New York City threw essential workers a ticker-tape parade along the canyon of heroes last week. And somehow, Gotham’s gilded oligarchs were spared the unsavory sight of marchers in matching “I Saved Your Asses From COVID-19 And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt” gear. Exhausted healthcare workers along with their counterparts in children’s services, transportation, retail and other frontline sectors appeared too giddy about surviving the one-time epicenter of Covid and putting the worst of the ongoing pandemic behind them to pass up a well-deserved…
The Pandemic Isn’t Over, but the New Administration Is Acting Like It Is On Donald Trump’s watch workers were callously denied enforceable workplace safety measures during the Covid pandemic. Now frontline workers charge President Joe Biden is failing to protect American workers toiling during the continuing pandemic. “They have certainly broken a promise,” Sonia Singh, co-director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance said. “It was very clear, that promise for the ETS (Emergency Temporary Standard) was for all workers.” That, of course, was not what frontline workers ultimately got when the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its proposed…
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