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Many Essential Workers Are Unprotected on the Frontline, According to New Shift Data
The Shift data document a lack of COVID-19-related protective measures in frontline service-sector jobs.
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Essential workers still lack basic safety protections on the job
The Shift Project’s survey examines how service industry workers are being protected from COVID by employers. The survey finds that…
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Why did it take a pandemic to make us value the lives of California’s essential workers?
In their op-ed, Kristen Harknett and Daniel Schneider outline service industry workers continued lack of adequate access to paid sick…
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Coronavirus energizes the labor movement. Can it last?
Due to COVID, there has been a reigniting of labor movement across California, and the rest of the country. Unions…
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Unions Call for Grocery Store Workers to be Recognized as First Responders
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), a union that represents 1.3 million people, is calling for grocery store workers to…
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US grocery workers risk coronavirus daily, and most don’t have paid sick leave
According to The Shift Project’s study, only 8% of workers can take off at least 14 days—the length of a…