Belabored Stories: NYU Teaching Assistants Are on a Sick-Out
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
Fall 2024
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Belabored Stories: “I Was Trying To Be an Ethical and Responsible Healthcare Worker”
A pharmacy technician who tested positive for COVID-19 worries that not enough has been done to protect his coworkers—and that he faces a backlash for speaking out.
Belabored Stories: Weary at Walmart
“Please tell people to stop thanking grocery workers for working. We don’t have a choice. You can thank us by staying home.”
Belabored Stories: Postmates Drivers are Refusing All Chipotle Deliveries
“$2.50 is not a wage. It is a guacamole upcharge.”
Belabored Stories: Cramped at the Call Center
At a company that provides services to public health agencies tracking the coronavirus, workers sit in cubicles “like sardine cans.”
Belabored Stories: What If Nurses Ran the Healthcare System?
“We take in a lot and don’t talk about it,” a nurse in Chicago said. But healthcare workers are talking now—not just about how to save their patients, but about rebuilding the system from the bottom up.
Belabored Stories: Farmworkers Need Field Hospitals
Workers in the fields in Immokalee, Florida, are demanding public health infrastructure that takes into account cramped living and travel conditions. “Social distancing is not possible.”
Belabored Stories: A Healthcare Worker Day of Action
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that “any hospital operating off the crisis protocols should let him know,” said one nurse in Brooklyn. “Well, this is us letting him know.”
Belabored Stories: “Please Stay Safe”
Grocery store workers have become an important point of human contact for customers isolated at home. “People are seeing you in a different light now.”
Belabored Stories: On the Picket Line for Ventilators
General Electric workers want to use the company’s idled manufacturing facilities to make desperately needed lifesaving equipment.
Belabored Stories: Education at a Distance
If anything good can come of this massive experiment in remote teaching, a New York City teacher says, it should be “an end to the Silicon Valley fantasy that this is what school can be in the future.”
Belabored Stories: Will Workers’ Gains Outlive the Crisis?
Grocery store workers at Kroger in West Virginia won extra pay and benefits during the pandemic. “I see this as a truce, and not a victory,” said one. “We can’t settle for anything less than what we actually deserve.”
Belabored Stories: The Dangers of Sanitation Work
Kevin Clark had to fight for protective equipment from the waste hauling company where he works even before the pandemic. Things aren’t much better now.
Belabored Stories: What It’s Like to File for Unemployment
The unemployment system is more confusing than it needs to be.
Social Reproduction and the Pandemic, with Tithi Bhattacharya
The coronavirus crisis has made clear that care and life-making work are the essential work of society.
