Also, the Fed throws the oil industry a lifeline. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for May 1, 2020.
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Across Class Lines: Amazon Tech Workers Join Warehouse Workers in Protests
Home-office climate activists and warehouse employees across the nation find common cause mobilizing against Amazon’s policies.
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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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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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Like Uber, but for Gig Worker Organizing
Drivers and delivery personnel for app-based employers keep getting squeezed. Now they’re fighting back.
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When Nurses Strike—and Get Locked Out
Workers stage a job action at a major Seattle hospital to win better patient care—and their temp replacements may not even be credentialed.
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Divided Auto Workers Vote to Accept GM Contract
Rank-and-file members of the UAW approve the agreement, but with major opposition from workers whose plants may yet be closed.
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‘Why We Wear Red on Thursdays’
Unlike other unions over the last 30 years, CWA has continued to strike—and continued to win. Their enduring preparedness starts with something as simple as wearing red.
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Will the UAW Vote Down the GM Contract?
A mixed tentative agreement with no guarantees against outsourcing has some workers vowing to fight on rather than ratify the pact.
