Also, time to crowdsource, and opposition to privatization from private banks. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for April 29, 2020.
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The Future of Labor in Post-Pandemic America
An American Prospect symposium
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Can Unions Surge in Post-Pandemic America?
Millions of generally ignored workers are now hailed as heroes. But it will take millennial-led militance to translate this newfound esteem into palpable gains.
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It’s Workers Who Should Determine When Their Workplace Is Safe
States must create health and safety councils—one way that ‘essential’ workers can begin to gain one essential they lack: power.
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The Power to Slow Down Reopening
Workers can organize—and have organized—to ensure they can stay off the job until their worksites are safe.
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New Laws for the Fissured Workplace
The pandemic has compelled the government to extend temporary protections to some independent contractors and gig workers, but they need full and permanent coverage.
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Labor Will Win by Championing Everyone
Unions must lead the charge for programs—Medicare for All, comprehensive child and elder care—that are as universal as the pandemic’s threat.
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What Is Not to Be Done
If unions seek to re-create the labor movement of the past, organized labor will die. As capitalism has changed, so must workers’ movements.
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Turning Worker Anger Into Worker Power
The pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of millions of workers to the nation—and to the workers themselves. But are unions seizing this opportunity to build a new kind of power?
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France’s ‘Deconfinement’ Plan
France has announced a carefully phased plan for easing the severe restrictions imposed in mid-March. The strategy is far more coherent, cautious, and realistic than the miraculous ‘reopening’ envisioned by U.S. authorities.
