Nurses at Kaiser Permanente hospitals and clinics in California could be fired immediately for wearing their own face masks, according to unions representing nurses at the facilities …
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will provide unlimited credit–and assume the bad debts, not just of banks, but for what it called ‘Main St.’ But by ‘Main St.’ it doesn’t mean consumers or households …
Italy is the Western European country where the coronavirus pandemic spread first and where its tragic effects are being felt the most. …
Millennials: If you can’t stay at home for others, do it for yourselves. …
David and Denise Morse were sent to the California air force base after 21 people on their Grand Princess cruise were diagnosed with coronavirus …
Fed up with unsanitary working conditions, bus operators in Detroit refused to drive the buses …
At the end of 2019, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, began a massive …
Someone dies of coronavirus every ten minutes in Iran, according to the country’s health ministry. …
Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off …
By March 23rd, there were over 370,000 cases of Coronavirus, including more than 16,000 deaths …
This post is translated from French from: https://www.convergencesrevolutionnaires.org/ Everybody trusts virologists, emergency doctors and biologists …
Truckers and warehouse workers at UPS and FedEx feel they have not choice but to keep showing up, even with coronavirus-like sypmtoms …
The divisions between the rich and poor are infuriatingly clear in 2020 …
Now is the time to imagine a better world. …
Rideshare workers are calling for enforcement of California’s AB5 which would allow them at least three days of paid sick leave …
As the outbreak has hit America and the country has started to shut down, workers in many industries wonder: what now? …
For-profit insurers are in the business to make a profit. Period. …
Now isn’t the time to blindly follow orders from bosses. To make sure our response to coronavirus is safe and just, workers need to take on-the-job action like sick-outs and strikes — as New York City educators have over the past week. …
Even in times of social distancing, building a collective, social response to the pandemic is our only salvation. …
One positive takeaway from the world’s response to the coronavirus epidemic is that it’s entirely possible to successfully combat two other existential and intertwined global crises: climate change and air pollution. …
Yaak Pabst interviews Monthly Review Press author Rob Wallace about the coronavirus pandemic …
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