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April 22, 2022
Covid Is Still Disproportionately Killing Low-Income People
Though a virus may not be able to discriminate, our society has in fact discriminated in the most virulent ways.
Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis
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April 5, 2022
In Criminalizing Error, We Are Doomed to Repeat Our Mistakes
Sending a nurse to prison for causing a patient’s death may satisfy the thirst for vengeance, but it won’t make hospitals any safer.
Jessie Singer
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February 17, 2022
Amazon Warehouse Workers Want to Feel Safe
At a rally at the facility where a tornado killed six people, protesters from across the region demanded better protections for workers.
Sophie Hurwitz
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January 28, 2022
Ah Quon McElrath and the Power of Multiracial Working-Class Solidarity
The Chinese Hawai’ian labor activist and social worker would ask, “Look, you are exploited, what are you going to do about it?”
Kim Kelly
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December 1, 2021
Do We Really Need a 24-Hour Economy?
Perhaps the pandemic has given us an opportunity to rethink which goods are so “critical” that we’re willing to let other people risk their lives to provide them for us.
Rebecca Gordon
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October 14, 2021
How America Learned to Outsource Its Dirtiest Work to the Least Powerful
A conversation with author Eyal Press about the men and women who do this country’s most maligned jobs and the psychic toll it takes on them.
Jasmine Liu
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September 15, 2021
Sweatshops Won’t Help the World’s Poor, but Unions Could
Influential liberals said low-paid manufacturing jobs would help the Global South. They were wrong then—and they’re especially wrong now.
James North
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July 1, 2021
There’s a Way to Get More People Vaccinated—and It Doesn’t Involve the Lottery
As the Delta variant spreads, it’s essential to make it easier for essential workers to get vaccinated—and that begins by giving paid sick leave for the shot.
Terri Gerstein and Lorelei Salas
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June 24, 2021
Yesterday’s Union-Busting Supreme Court Decision Was a Segregationist Throwback
The court’s decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid will reverberate throughout the labor movement and far beyond.
Elie Mystal for The Nation
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June 2, 2021
How NY’s Fund for Excluded Workers Inspired Activists Across the US
New York set aside $2.1 billion for workers ineligible for government benefits. Now immigration activists are fighting to ensure an inclusive rollout.
María Jesús Mora