In the early months of the pandemic, meatpacking plants emerged as deadly hot spots for COVID-19.
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Food Service Workers Rally Demanding Industry-Wide Reform
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Hundreds of service industry workers with ROC MN called for workplace organizing to combat the racism, sexism, and labor exploitation rampant in the industry and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic
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FRONTLINE: Covid’s Hidden Toll
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How the COVID crisis has hit vulnerable immigrants and undocumented workers who have helped keep America fed during the pandemic.
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Protesters Demand Action for Home Care Workers and Clients
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On July 1st home care workers & clients demand emergency funding increase from legislators as low pay & benefits continue to hurt seniors & people with disabilities facing a“care crisis” made worse by COVID-19
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Worker Action at Tattersall
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Tattersall front of house and bottlers have decided to unionize with Unite Here! Local 17. Tattersall Distilling management have declined to recognize their union.
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Seward Co-op Workers Hold a 2pm Work Stoppage
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The workers called upon their own store leadership and their union UFCW Local 663 to publicly support the “defunding” and “dismantling” of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Postal Workers from Burned S. Minneapolis Station Rally in Solidarity with #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd
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The press conference was followed by solidarity march to 38th and Chicago (site of George Floyd’s murder)
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John Oliver: Defunding the Police
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As nationwide protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor are met with police brutality, John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.
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NBC News Special Report: Nationwide Protests Over Death Of George Floyd
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NBC News full special report covering the nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.
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Organizing workers w/ Zenei Cortez, Kali Akuno, & Vijay Prashad
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This May Day special brings together international perspectives from nurses, workers cooperatives, and socialist movements.