“We Risk Our Lives Every Day”: Building Service Workers Strike
Workers at 75 Wall Street in New York are demanding management return to the bargaining table.
Workers at 75 Wall Street in New York are demanding management return to the bargaining table.
“I want to remind the owners of the factories that they’re the ones who can save our lives.”
A home care attendant is determined to keep helping her vulnerable clients. “I’ve been in this field eighteen years,” she said. “So why would I turn my back now, when I know they need me to feed them?”
Two restaurant workers tell their stories.
Graduate students are doing essential work researching pandemics. They have no guarantee that work will continue.
The illness in the food chain should remind us that we are all only as healthy as the sickest person in society.
“They have very unrealistic expectations of workers sacrificing their health so that people can buy makeup.”
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
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.
Wayne Lizardi’s route is operating on a reduced schedule, but his bus is still crowded with passengers traveling to work.
“Please tell people to stop thanking grocery workers for working. We don’t have a choice. You can thank us by staying home.”
“$2.50 is not a wage. It is a guacamole upcharge.”
Academic instructors who were already underemployed and insecure before the crisis face an uncertain future, with little prospect for federal relief.
Veteran labor activist Bill Fletcher, Jr. on how the labor movement can cope with the crisis and salvage itself.
A server who worked at IHOP for twelve years had her final paycheck withheld until she agreed to return her uniform and officially quit.