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Front-line workers in the covid-19 fight need unions

Get PDF of this article New Deal-era labor laws must be refreshed and improved to support and empower today’s essential workers. Author William Jones

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Labor and COVID-19: An International Perspective

Get PDF of this article How can we examine COVID-19 crisis from a global labor perspective? Several hundred people tuned in on April 9, 2020, for a discussion on this...

NYC’s LGBTQIA Community Has Organized, Against Death, Again

Get PDF of this article An injury to one is an injury to all. A service to one is a service to all. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, New York...

When the Home Is a Workplace

Get PDF of this article In California, new legislation would expand the rules of the Occupational Health and Safety Act to cover all workers—if domestic workers and their allies have...

John Prine’s “Grandpa Was a Carpenter”

Get PDF of this article The great John Prine, a victim of the coronavirus last week, spent a career penning and performing songs about his own death, many of them...

Class, Capitalism, and Coronovirus at Disney’s Newest Attraction

Get PDF of this article Last week the Coronavirus forced Disney to announce that its American parks are now closed indefinitely, resulting in the longest interruptions of any kind since...