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The thing about systemic racism is it’s systemic: This week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Income inequality, race discrimination / By max cyril

According to government statistics, the wage gap between white men and Black men has shrunk dramatically since the 1950s. But that’s only true, The New York Times’ David Leonhardt points out, if you compare workers—and the problem is, a lot of Black men have been pushed out of the workforce, in significant part by mass incarceration. When comparing …

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Nearly half of Black immigrant domestic workers lost their jobs during COVID-19, and that’s not all

Leave a Comment / Domestic Workers / By max cyril

Domestic workers are overwhelmingly marginalized workers, and as we know, the coronavirus pandemic has been the hardest on already marginalized people. A new survey of 800 Black immigrant domestic workers in three areas shows just how bad it is for these workers who take care of children, elderly people, and people with disabilities, or who clean homes. The workers’ stress and …

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Black workers are twice as likely to have seen coronavirus-related retaliation by bosses

Leave a Comment / Retaliation / By max cyril

Workers—but especially Black workers—say they are afraid that going to work during the coronavirus pandemic risks their own health or that of a family member, but many fear retaliation if they speak up. A new survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) finds that, overall, 56% of people going to work fear the risks, but …

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Black Workers Say Walmart’s Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory

Leave a Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

When Walmart announced in January that it was “in-sourcing” its Elwood, Illinois, distribution center, workers were cautiously optimistic. Since it opened in 2006, the 3.4 million-square-foot warehouse has been operated by Schneider Logistics, a third-party contractor, which in turn hired workers through temp agencies. Walmart’s plan to absorb several of its outsourced warehouses nationwide meant …

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Black workers are still not sharing in the bounty of nation-wide employment gains

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

Embedded in the nation’s increasingly favorable unemployment statistics — the country is currently in the midst of a record decline in the number of out-of-work Americans — is the persistent fact that black workers aren’t sharing equitably in this rampant job growth. In September, the most recent period when figures are available, approximately 134,000 jobs were created …

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Black Livelihoods Matter: The Civil Justice System Needs Reform Too

2 Comments / race discrimination / By max cyril

The Black Lives Matter movement has brought much-needed attention to the disparity in the way our criminal justice system treats African Americans. But there’s another side of American justice that matters too: our civil courts. In the United States today, the civil justice system is the last line of defense for workers who have faced …

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The thing about systemic racism is it’s systemic: This week in the war on workers

Nearly half of Black immigrant domestic workers lost their jobs during COVID-19, and that’s not all

Black workers are twice as likely to have seen coronavirus-related retaliation by bosses

Black Workers Say Walmart’s Background Checks Are Racially Discriminatory

Black workers are still not sharing in the bounty of nation-wide employment gains

Black Livelihoods Matter: The Civil Justice System Needs Reform Too

Here’s Some History to Help Understand the Racial Wealth Gap

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