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On April 9, George Leigh, a worker at Amazon’s DNY4 distribution center in Bethpage, New York, he died as a result of COVID-19. …

22 million Americans have lost their jobs and are scrambling to figure out what to do, but the billionaires in the U.S. have increased their wealth by 10%. …

Trump released a statement saying that “governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now, for this weekend.” What an irresponsible statement! …

California governor Gavin Newsom released a revised budget for the state of California on May 14. Who are the targets of his spending cuts? Workers, high-needs students, the elderly …

36.5 million workers had filed for unemployment, but most are waiting to see the funds appear. The viral hashtag #PendingPurgatory explains what it’s been like for working people …

Almost half of workers are making more on unemployment than they do in their regular jobs …

For the last few years the NYC subway system has cut back the number of unionized cleaning crews, and it shows. …

Then comes COVID-19 and our delicately balanced lives as gig workers come tumbling down …

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s wealth – 138 billion dollars right now – is more than the GDP of over 130 countries across the globe. And it’s only getting bigger. …

For several weeks, Trump has been playing on the distress of millions of us who have lost our jobs to rev up support for re-opening businesses …

Joe Biden made a statement recently that flew under the radar in the U.S. press, but made big waves in the Middle East. …

Amidst a global pandemic, with the climate crisis still looming in the background, the Trump administration has dismantled a number of environmental protections. …

While there have been some efforts at collaboration, it has become apparent that the search for a viable vaccine is ultimately driven by wasteful competition among governments and profiteering corporations. …

Four years ago, Trump campaigned on the slogan, “Build the wall!” He was fueling the economic fears of U.S. workers whose real income had gone …

Politicians are rushing to reopen the economy and they don’t care how many coffins they fill. …

Although Covid-19 sparked the current economic crisis, it is not the root cause. In late March and early April, experts projected a recession similar to the 2008 “great recession” was coming. …

In late April, President Trump ordered that meatpacking plants reopen after they were shut down because of COVID-19. He is more concerned about the companies’ profits than workers’ lives. …

On Wednesday, after saying that he was planning to dismantle the White House coronavirus task force, Trump reversed course and said that he would keep …

According to a new paper by the University of California, Berkeley, high carbon-emitting industries have much lower import taxes than cleaner industries. …

Report From a Childcare Worker: I had to turn them down to keep my family safe, a difficult decision …

World leaders held a virtual meeting on Monday, May 4, to raise funds for COVID-19 vaccine research. Notably absent were any representatives from the U.S. or Russia. …

On May 1, Tim Bray, Amazon’s Vice President for Web Services, resigned from his position at the company. …

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. …

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. …

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. …

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. …

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

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 …

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

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. …

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

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

From a Contract Worker: This crisis is demonstrating the precariousness of my situation. …

The Trump administration is not the first U.S. government to lie about an epidemic. …

From a Bay Area Biotech Worker: The measures that businesses take need to be more than just a facade. …

As Covid-19 has spread to the pacific, so has resistance from its residents. …

Regardless of their offense, many people now in prison are sentenced to death by Covid-19. …

The virus doesn’t discriminate based on where you were born. But the U.S. government does. …

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. …