Check back for updates to this list. If you have any teaching and/or learning resources to contribute, please send them to LES Labor Educator Amy Livingston
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“Essential” Factory Workers Are Afraid to Go to Work and Can’t Afford to Stay Home
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As some Illinois factories and warehouses stay open making supplies amid the coronavirus outbreak, workers say standing elbow to elbow in production lines and clocking in with fingerprint scanners could make them sick.
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‘My Family Members are Begging me Not to Go to Work’
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At a Wednesday afternoon press conference, nurses represented by the Minnesota Nurses Association (MNA) outlined in raw and unwavering detail the challenges they are facing as frontline workers in the midst of a global health crisis.
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Millions of Federal Workers Still Waiting on Work-From-Home Order During Coronavirus Pandemic
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Public health experts agree that Americans need to stay home as much as possible, but the Trump administration has not yet issued clear guidance to federal workers.
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COVID-19 Resources for Workers and Community
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While the following list of resources may not be conclusive, it is indeed a start. As the situation evolves, we will attempt to update accordingly. In general, we sincerely hope that our leaders expand the state’s social safety net to protect the most vulnerable in our society.
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Unions Across America Are Screaming For Paid Sick Leave and Healthcare
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As coronavirus spreads, sowing panic and economic dislocation, unions across the country are using the crisis as an opportunity to call for priorities that were dismissed as left-wing fantasies not long ago—and now seem like common sense.
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Coronavirus Shows Capitalism Is a Razor’s Edge
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According to a Gallup poll from 2019, 25% of people in the United States say they or a family member “put off treatment for a serious medical condition in the past year because of the cost.”
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Has Your Job Been Affected by Covid-19?
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As the concern over Covid-19 seeps into every part of our lives, various forms of work are also impacted. From frontline healthcare workers, theater stagehands, or hourly workers, life is changing drastically. At Workday, we appreciate that whether or not you are infected, your life is changing quickly. We want to hear your stories. Please email us here.
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Getting serious about the economic response to COVID-19
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The first two characteristics of a potential COVID-19 slowdown—that it could come fast and come straight for low-wage workers first—suggest one potential response: rapid direct payments to individuals.
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Information and Resources on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak
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Our health care workers and first responders do not have the necessary resources and equipment or adequate training and communication available to protect them from contracting, and spreading, this virus.
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Fighting Today for a Better Tomorrow
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Throughout the last week workers and their advocates took to the streets to make their voices heard.