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Capitalism Made Women of Color More Vulnerable to the COVID Recession
One in nine Black and Latina women age 20 and over became unemployed last month.
Amy Coney Barrett Would Ensure an Anti-Worker Supreme Court
The potential for mass strikes and FDR's threat to pack the Supreme Court helped to protect key labor law.
Domestic Workers Are Organizing to Make Care Work a 2020 Election Issue
Organizers are working to make sure voters “only consider candidates who value and respect domestic workers.”
Amid COVID and Wildfires, Farmworkers Have Been Pushed to the Brink
This administration has declared farmworkers essential but failed to provide them adequate work conditions and pay.
Insufficient COVID Protections for Postal Workers Pose Threat to Mail-In Voting
Postal Service employees are not being tested nor receiving temperature checks despite facing obvious health risks.
Kenyon College Students Are Organizing the First Campus-Wide Undergraduate Union
Disruption in campus employment due to COVID-19 sparked new urgency for students’ ability to bargain.
Undocumented Farmworkers Face Triple Threat as West Coast Burns
Farmworkers continue working amid a pandemic and climate-fueled fires.
NYC Teachers Say Union Leadership Made Unsafe Reopening Plan With City Officials
Rank-and-file educators say the agreement between UFT and the city does nothing to address pandemic safety concerns.
Uprisings Against Evictions Are Sweeping the Country Today
As many as 40 million people could be displaced from their homes in the next several months.
COVID-19 Could Set Back Women’s Economic Progress for Decades
Women are still struggling to recover economically from COVID-19, and there are no signs this will happen anytime soon.