History of Workplace Safety for Black Americans
As we celebrate Black History Month, we know we must do more to create equity and safety for all workers.
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How To Be an Ally in the Workplace
In this article, we examine how anyone can be a better ally to underrepresented communities in the workplace.
Focus on Black Women to Address Workplace Segregation
Occupational segregation in the United States reflects the systemic and structural racism built into the economy that marginalizes people of color.
Fight for $15 Movement Has Won $150B in Wage Raises for 26M Workers in Less Than a Decade
New York, NY—The worker-of-color-led Fight for $15 and a union movement has won $150 billion in raises for 26 million workers to date, according to a new report from National Employment Law Project (NELP). Twelve million of the 26 million impacted workers (46 percent) are Black, Latinx, or Asian American; and of the $150 billion in total …
Black-owned distillery embraces its workers’ union, this week in the war on workers
When workers at Du Nord Craft Spirits decided to form a union, joining UNITE HERE Local 17, the company voluntarily recognized them without any delay and in fact publicized the occasion itself. Du Nord bills itself as the first Black-owned distillery in the United States. “The production staff of Du Nord Craft Spirits chose to form a union …
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Black workers, hammered by pandemic, now being left behind in recovery
Black Americans, who were among the hardest hit by coronavirus layoffs, are now recovering at the slowest rate, a one-two punch that threatens to worsen the United States’ already stark wealth and income disparities long after the pandemic recedes. While Hispanic workers initially saw the sharpest uptick in unemployment when business shutdowns began last spring, …
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The Pandemic’s Impact on Workers and Looking Towards a Just Recovery
NELP’s roadmap for a Just Recovery is based on our vision for bold structural change and on our fall 2020 survey of workers on the COVID frontlines, people who lost their jobs, and other community members seriously impacted by this disease and the failure of so many of our lawmakers and employers to properly address its dangers. …
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COVID-19 highlights the racism of the tipped minimum wage, this week in the war on workers
Black workers have been hit so hard during the coronavirus pandemic, and a full accounting of the hits is not yet complete. We know that Black people have been disproportionately likely to get sick, to be hospitalized, and to die from COVID-19. That they’ve been more likely to face job loss during the pandemic (when they aren’t …
Postal Service cuts imperil ladder to middle class for many Black Americans
Postal workers say DeJoy’s policies would make it nearly impossible to cope with sweeping changes that are affecting their jobs every day. Jonathan Smith, a Black mail-processing equipment mechanic who joined the U.S. Postal Service in 1988, remembers his grandfather being so proud of his career at the agency that he wore his uniform even …
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Black workers are hurt most as Congress doesn’t extend unemployment
One mostly unintended—definitely on the Republican side—aspect of the $600 in added unemployment benefits is that it reduced racial disparities. But that means that one aspect of the $600 expiring is that those same racial disparities have come roaring back. Why? Because, for one thing “Black workers disproportionately live in states with the lowest benefit levels …
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