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25% of Pork Producers Close after Outbreak
As COVID-19 continues to spread, meatpacking plants have been hit especially hard. 25% of the pork industry has been shut down and 10% of the beef industry has closed. This is causing some to be...
Airline Union: Wear a Mask if You Fly
People flying around the country may be at record lows during the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are still hundreds of flights a day around the country. Most of these passengers are essential workers...
NY Frontline Worker Fund
Each and every day of this crisis, union members on the frontlines of the COVID-19 outbreak are bravely going to work, putting their health and lives on the line for their fellow New Yorkers. And yet...
IBEW Members Sequestered at Power Plants
This post was written by the IBEW Media Center. Several dozen IBEW utility members have been sequestered at their work sites in California and New York since early April to protect critical power...
27 Year Old Grocery Store Worker Dies from COVID-19
After weeks of working in grocery stores and being exposed to COVID-19 grocery store workers are beginning to die. One of the first to die was Leilani Jordan, a 27-year-old grocery store clerk at...
Target Delivery Workers Strike
With stores overrun with customers, they are becoming key places for new infections. Supermarkets are obviously essential, but people are looking for ways to avoid them. Delivery services like Amazon...
13,000 Carpenters Strike in Massachusetts
Last week, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker shut down all non-essential work in the state to stop the spread of COVID-19. However, construction workers who are working on residential projects...
Amazon Fires Worker for Organizing
Let’s clear the ambiguity: America is at war, a total war against an invisible enemy that threatens all of us, regardless of age, ideology, class or creed. This enemy, of course, is COVID-19,...
Union Finds 39 Million N95 Masks
The federal government, state governments, and private hospitals all are in a race to find masks to protect healthcare workers and first responders. While many are reporting having difficulty finding...
UFCW: Make Grocers Essential
Grocery stores across the nation have become lifebloods for communities that are forced to quarantine. For many, it is people's only chance to get out of the house and talk to people in person....