
Belabored Stories: Pretty Evil
No Evil Foods, a vegan food company whose products include “Comrade Cluck,” recently fought a union drive. Now workers feel unsafe in the factory.
No Evil Foods, a vegan food company whose products include “Comrade Cluck,” recently fought a union drive. Now workers feel unsafe in the factory.
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.”
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.
Detained migrants face crowded, confined conditions with remarkably limited access to healthcare, health protections, and safety precautions.
The unemployment system is more confusing than it needs to be.
Most downturns in the business cycle occur over a number of months. This spike has occurred in just a couple of weeks.
How the crisis gets resolved will depend, to a large extent, on the European Union.
Many nannies, housekeepers, and home-care aides are out of work and do not know when it will be safe to enter others’ homes again. Those continuing to work constantly risk being exposed or exposing others to the virus.
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We will need art “on the other side of this,” says a worker at the Guggenheim Museum.
Instacart workers are on strike today to demand the company recognize the importance of their grocery delivery service amid the pandemic.
Taxi and rideshare drivers were struggling before the pandemic hit. Now, faced with plummeting ridership and high personal risk, they are demanding comprehensive aid.
COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the economy. Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute joins us to discuss the disappointing relief bill that was signed into law today.
Fast food workers in North Carolina are on strike today after being deemed “essential workers” yet treated as anything but.
A Domino’s delivery driver decided to stop working in unsafe conditions. He worries a coworker with respiratory problems “will most likely work until he is dead.”