Publications

Dr. Fauci, the head of Trump’s Coronavirus Task Force, has been forced to contradict and make up for these stupid statements. …

With cases just beginning to surge in many states, testing still lagging, and no contact tracing, the U.S. disaster is only just beginning. …

BART is operating as if it is business as usual, endangering the lives of workers and riders. …

Although comfort and economic security are great things, they shouldn’t cost time to live …

On May 1, International Workers’ Day, some workers at Amazon, Instacart, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and Shipt took action …

The federal government just gave the fossil fuel industry at least $50 million dollars of taxpayer money, which probably won’t have to be paid back. …

Senator Mitch McConnell announced a week ago that Congress wouldn’t provide any money to support state government employee pension funds. …

Across the United States, as of last week there were over 50,000 cases of COVID-19 and at least 10,000 deaths in nursing homes and other senior living facilities. …

Huge, often violent, protests have rocked Lebanese cities in recent days. While the COVID-19 crisis may be a contributing factor, they are in fact a continuation of …

Count to ten. Guess what? Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos made $30,182 while you were counting. …

The same day it was announced that over 30 million people applied for unemployment benefits in the past six weeks, Wall Street announced it had its best month since 1987. …

Report From Someone Trying to Roll Out Accurate Testing and Reporting at a Huge Public University …

The struggles of the international working class continue, and we draw our inspiration from them. …

In Baltimore City, Maryland, the living legacy of racial segregation, economic inequality and poverty dominate the health of the population. …

Global greenhouse gas emissions are expected to drop by nearly 8 percent this year, due to COVID-19 lock downs. This is the largest drop ever recorded …

There has been a wave of COVID-19 infections in the meatpacking industry throughout the country. …

Rent is a new concept in human history and one of our modern era’s biggest crimes. Let’s end rent! …

The COVID-19 pandemic has been slow to reach most of Africa compared to Europe and the United States. But that is changing. …

How is it that being poorer means I pay more for health coverage instead of less? …

On April 13th, Highland Hospital fired a nurse for wearing a trash bag as a gown. …

Sanders was right to say we need a movement, but channeling it into the Democratic Party is a dead end. …

Since the outbreak of COVID-19, there have been many exceptions to the labor laws that have resulted in deteriorating working conditions for many. …

In the midst of widespread panic, fear and economic instability, most of the world’s rich and powerful have been forced to flee to their multi-million dollar mansions and vacation homes. …

The United Nations food agency estimates that over seven million people, mostly young children, die of hunger every year. That’s in normal times without a pandemic! …

On April 23, during a White House briefing, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the DHS reported on data …

On March 25, the EPA announced it is rolling back environmental protections in response to the coronavirus. …

News reports confirm that Jeff Bezos, already far and away the world’s richest man, increased his wealth by $25 BILLION in only six weeks! How did he do this? …

Perhaps the pandemic can bring about new ways of training and educating healthcare workers. …

this article is reprinted from Labor Notes As we head into the fifth month of …

Report From a Skilled Nursing Facility: we were already navigating a health care crisis …

Today, nurses reminded Kaiser admin that there are no excuses for their despicable behavior. …

Poetry from an Oakland Kaiser Worker …

To the wealthy, we are things to exploit, not people who deserve respect. Nothing could make this more clear than the sick fact that landlords are using the current economic crisis to demand sexual favors. …

To all previously requesting to work at home, management’s actions are like a slap in the face …

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, millionaires in the U.S. stand to receive a lot more than $1,200. They’re getting $1.6 million in deductions, EACH. …

The Smithfield pork-processing plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, is a huge eight-story meat processing plant that employs 3,700 workers. …

Here we are, in the middle of a global pandemic and what does the Trump administration do? Cut funding to the World Health Organization (WHO). …

Trump has formed a committee he calls the “Opening Our Country Council,” supposedly a committee of experts to figure out how to relax social distancing measures …

3.7 million. That’s how many gallons of milk are being dumped each day by U.S. dairy farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Over 10,000 people have died in New York City from the coronavirus. Many of these deaths could have been prevented if governments had taken the pandemic seriously …

The main reason it’s so hard to access social programs is that governments intentionally want to pay out as little as possible …

From a Mental Health Hotline Worker: No one is in this alone. …

For several weeks now, President Trump has been pushing the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a …

From a Biotech Student: This pandemic begs the question; what kind of world are we graduating into? …

Around the world, prisoners are stuck in overcrowded facilities where the risk of getting COVID-19 is high. …

At a press conference in March, President Trump said that “nobody knew” there’d be a pandemic of this proportion. He’s lying. …

The COVID-19 crisis has put many people’s lives as well as livelihoods at risk. In response, the federal government has done nothing for renters or mortgage holders. …

Inmates at the Lansing Correctional Facility in Kansas rioted on Thursday. They raged through offices, broke windows, and set fires. …