COVID-19 and the capitalist-induced competition for healthcare.
workers
Worker’s-eye View: Solidarity with those on the margins needed now more than ever
What it takes now to work as a therapist with undocumented families.
Worker’s-eye View: Pushing to do right by utility contact center employees working to help Seattle residents
In order to provide help to the public, government employees must be protected themselves.
Worker’s-eye View: Working with low-income tenants in NYC during the coronavirus crisis
With many New Yorkers already squeezed for housing, the effects of the pandemic make solutions all the more urgent.
Whole Foods staff protest against conditions as coronavirus cases rise
From the Guardian: Workers across the U.S. are planning another sickout protest on May Day. Also see @WholeWorkerWFM on Twitter.
Worker’s-eye View: A parent and Water Department plumber coping at home and on the job
“A utility plumber for the San Francisco Water Department, I am also a single mom of 12-year-old twins. Handling both jobs is a real challenge right now.”
Worker’s-eye View: Amazon shoppers’ lives at risk while hurdles to organizing abound
“Unfortunately, most have no idea what to do. With no union, very few are open to taking action because they are not protected against retaliation.”
Freedom Socialist Party Frontline Report: NYC medical workers organize [Video]
Nga Bui from the Freedom Socialist newspaper talks with NYC labor activist Elias Holtz about current organizing by nurses and other hospital workers in response to COVID-19.
Jobs for all in the COVID-19 era
30 hours work for 40 hours pay and a broad program of public works
Support frontline King County Metro transit workers’ call for urgent measures to stem COVID19 spread
“We won’t be able to flatten the curve unless everyone does their part.”
