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Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida are being plowed over or left to rot because farmers can’t sell to restaurants that have closed because of the coronavirus. …

Written notes from the meeting, attended by CEO Jeff Bezos, detail Amazon’s strategy to fight union organizing, as well as efforts to obtain COVID-19 tests and protective masks for workers. …

Amazon confirmed to CNBC that it fired Chris Smalls, a warehouse worker who organized a strike at its Staten Island facility on Monday …

California’s roughly 400,000 agricultural workers are deemed essential, but often without proper safety measures or guaranteed benefits …

Workers around the country are walking off the job to protest a lack of protective equipment, safety measures, even soap …

Employees in New York facility say they have to ‘force company’s hand’ to act and accuse company of poor communication …

The Trump administration’s unprecedented indifference, even willful neglect, forced a catastrophic strategic surprise on to the American people …

How the ruling Communist Party manages the coming youths will help shape how hundreds of millions of young people see its authoritarian political bargain for decades to come. …

California has the worst housing crisis in the country—so bad that, when Governor Gavin Newsom took office, in 2019, he used his inaugural address to call for a “Marshall Plan for affordable housing,” …

European countries are paying to preserve jobs during the coronavirus crisis. Sadly for American workers, the United States is charting its own path. …

Sixers employees were about to take pay cuts … until Joel Embiid stepped in …

Around 100 workers at one of Northern Ireland’s main poultry manufacturers have walked out over concerns their employer has not taken proper steps to protect them from coronavirus. …

With many people out of work due to coronavirus’ impact on their industry or their health, some Bay Area cities and counties are offering modest relief to renters …

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 …

Employees say they are anxious about working in crowded stores with inadequate sanitation and lack of paid time off …

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 …

“With every crucial delay, with every blunder and misstep, the toll is going to be measured in lives lost.” …

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 …