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Update: Highland Cafeteria Workers
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland …
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“You only can slap a person so many times.” – Voices From Essential Workers
Today we are sharing an episode of This American Life: “Essential” which shares a range of voices of workers who were deemed essential during the first wave of the pandemic. …
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Essential Workers Take Action on May Day
On May 1, International Workers’ Day, some workers at Amazon, Instacart, Walmart, Target, Whole Foods, and Shipt took action …
Frontlines
A Healthcare Crisis Made Worse
Report From a Skilled Nursing Facility: we were already navigating a health care crisis …
Frontlines
An Ode to Capitalism
Poetry from an Oakland Kaiser Worker …
Frontlines
The COVID-19 Chokehold
Frontline Health Care Worker in North Jersey: Our frontline workers are in a chokehold. …
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Videos From Townhall • Workers’ Lives at Risk
Videos of presentations and discussion from April 4, 2020 townhall …
Frontlines
Hazard Work – But No Hazard Pay?
Public transit workers are on the front lines and need to be valued as such. …
Frontlines
An Impossible Choice
Oakland Healthcare worker: Only by standing together can we take care of our patients safely. …
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Who is Essential?
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs …