#Workers

I'll say it again. This is NOT the stage of pandemic for small business to be the focus unless they are making masks and ventilators. And speaking in support of
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Want to bring back civility?Focus on:Childhood povertyMinimum wageHealthcareEndless warsCorruptionPeople working 2 jobsInstead y’all spent a week on:GolfObesityCrude wordsWant to win in Nov? Then stop taking the lazy approach to politics.
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Hey @KrutikaKuppalli - let’s drop some truth on why people don’t need to wear surgical masks unless they’re sick…. First, these supplies are in short supply and the folks that
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"In terms of a solution to retain those staff and dissuade them from leaving the province, Shephard referred to ongoing negotiations with unions representing those workers."https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/health-care-
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It feels like there’s no room to breathe. Human struggles are dwarfed by conversations about numbers. Those figures usually represent deaths, confirmed cases, or the stock market. I’d like to
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What can companies do to bring workers back to the office?*A thread*More than two-thirds of Britons are spurning a return to work amid fears over Covid-19 despite appeals from the
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The toll on healthcare worker's mental health may be one of the least told stories of covid-19.A thread.1/11 We hear a lot about the death tolls, but what is really
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The Supreme Court is hearing a PIL seeking directions to the Government for payment of wages to migrant workers belonging to the unorganised sector amid the #lockdown.The petition has been
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Thousands of migrant workers gathered at Bandra (Mumbai) today as they wanted to return home after the lockdown was extended till May 3. Read our piece to know why India's
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I have mixed feelings about people traveling right now. A lot of colleges are letting out for the semester right now, so students and faculty and staff have a long
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Just found out that the Italian word for 'scab' or strike-breaker is 'crumiro'It comes from the Crumiri, or Khroumir, a tribal confederation at the border between Algeria and Tunisia. Why??
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I feel like the people in power’s perspective on medical professionals shifted from “workers” to “heroes” because if they’re just “heroes” it erases responsibility to protect them from vulnerable situations
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The Trump-Scalia Dept of Labor released new regulatory guidance for the new pandemic #unemployment assistance (PUA) program passed by Congress in the #CARESAct, and it’s criminally narrow. https://wdr.doleta.gov/directives/corr_doc.cfm?DOCN=4628 Whil
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BREAKING: We just filed the first legal complaint that challenges the entirety of Trump’s unlawful immigration ban. The ban is huge, and so is the lawsuit with our partners @AILANational
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You know how Brexit happening was all our fault because we said dug in leavers were stupid? And it was our fault people voted Tory in 2019? Can't remember why,
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.@senatemajldr McConnell’s dismissive remark that States devastated by Coronavirus should go bankrupt rather than get the federal assistance they need and deserve is shameful and indefensible. To say that it
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