Tag: Labor
Care Work
Sympathy Won’t Win Us Better Conditions
A care worker writes about the struggle for PPE, wages, and job security in the UK.
Alison Treacher
June 6, 2020
COVID-19
Mark Bergfeld and Sara Farris
May 10, 2020
Canada
“Essentially” Expendable: Construction Work in COVID Times
Megan Kinch writes, in an unsparing first-person account, on the endemic and pandemic dangers of construction work, the failures of union leadership, and an uncertain future. You can find her @meganysta on twitter.
Megan Kinch
May 2, 2020
Dispatches
Operating a Train in a Pandemic
A New York transit worker explains the limits of TWU’s conciliatory leadership and advocates a rank-and-file approach as the only way for workers to survive the pandemic.
Josh Fraidstern
May 1, 2020