#Workers

Ingrid M

iMusing

“pandemic leave disaster payment” will be established, says Morrison. What we are dealing with here is a disaster, he says. The payment will be for workers with no sick leave

United Farm Workers

UFWupdates

⁦Farm workers are invisible to many people- but they have had a staunch advocate in ⁦@KamalaHarris⁩.She has marched and fought alongside farm workers for life-changing protections in California, and as

John Greenfield

greenfieldjohn

Serious question, not sarcasm. Are there any other major U.S. cities besides Chicago where the main sustainable transportation advocacy organization is opposed to opening streets for walking and biking to

Prof Rachel Oliver 🐯

ProfRachelGaN

The lovely husband is an NHS doctor, currently working on the COVID wards in a hospital about an hour's drive away. From 7.30 am this morning, he is expecting to

Dave McKenna

djmckenna00

Support organizer @Shut_downAmazon, who is fighting for safe working conditions with the Congress of Essential Workers @TCOEW Donate here:https://gf.me/u/y3sa8u Forced to work in an Amazon a warehouse in March and

Bolli Bolshevik

LaSouvarine

Exactly this:So many of these offers are via gatekeeping that exclude some of the lowest paid and highest risk workershttps://twitter.com/pewpy/status/1250336114465837057 The group i am volunteering with have encountered a wealth

immortal 📉 wertkritik

as_a_worker

nobody talks about how the united states postal service is only unionized bc rank and file workers organized the largest wildcat strike in american history and brought the nixon administration

sumaya Ⓥ

phobosndemios

Most of us don't know, or don't want to accept the scale of abuse, but fast fashion is one of the most exploitative industries out there.You can expect most high

Andrew Koltun

KoltunAndrew

While I'm pleased to see some movement on relief for students, I'm disappointed that students are being treated as an infantilized class of workers. From my prior experience in applying

Princess Meerkat Keeper of the Fly💛🐝

PrincessMeerk

My dad has schizoaffective disorder. During the hearing to make me his legal guardian he became very agitated and an armed officer came into the courtroom. This sent my dad

Eric Umansky

ericuman

The federal government is confiscating orders from...the federal government!FEMA hijacked 5 million masks from the VA, which is very short of supplies. The masks "disappeared," say VA hospital chief. Hospitals

Nicole Kaeding

NKaeding

I've spent a lot of today thinking about UI, workers in "essential industries," and the CARES Act. As is usual, I'm not happy with much of what I'm seeing out

Khaled

khaledsayswhat

The activist project and the theoretical project of Marxism are perpetual losers absent an ambitious and long-term productive project informed by the first two and in turn constrains and makes

Diamond Jim

DiamondJimMusic

Good Afternoon Oshkosh/Wisconsin voters! Today we checked our mail for the absentee ballots for the last time. They ballots did not arrive. My Wife and I drove over to our

Tim Landes

TimLandesJr

Ugh. Just accidentally deleted a thread on Oklahoma restaurants reopening for dine-in on May 1. Here we go again: If it’s 5/1 that means restaurants have to restock inventory, rehire

Edward Ongweso Jr

bigblackjacobin

After yesterday's news that Amazon has surveilled its Flex drivers for years on their private social media, I saw some people talk about this as yet another example of Zuboff's