Georgia

Six dead in Georgia poultry plant liquid nitrogen leak, this week in the war on workers

Leave a Comment / Health & Safety, workplace safety / By max cyril

Six people are dead after a liquid nitrogen leak at a Georgia poultry plant and 11 others were hospitalized, with at least three in critical condition. Two of the people killed were Mexican citizens, and those injured included at least four firefighters. “When leaked into the air, liquid nitrogen vaporizes into an odorless gas that’s capable …

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Georgia’s Working People Deserve Better: In the States Roundup

Leave a Comment / labor, Pandemic / By max cyril

It’s time once again to take a look at the ways working people are making progress in the states. Click on any of the links to follow the state federations on Twitter. Arizona AFL-CIO: California Labor Federation: Colorado AFL-CIO: Florida AFL-CIO: Georgia State AFL-CIO: Indiana State AFL-CIO: Iowa Federation of Labor: Massachusetts AFL-CIO: Michigan State …

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Gwinnett County, Georgia, joins the list of early school reopening COVID-19 messes

Leave a Comment / Teachers / By max cyril

Gwinnett County, Georgia, didn’t even make it to the beginning of the school year before it had serious coronavirus problems amid Gov. Brian Kemp’s push to reopen schools in person. Teachers started in-person planning for the school year on Wednesday. By Thursday, 260 school district employees were out because of positive coronavirus tests or contact with a …

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Reopening reality check: Georgia’s jobs aren’t flooding back

Leave a Comment / unemployment / By max cyril

A month after easing lockdown restrictions, the state is still seeing a steady stream of unemployment claims, economic data shows. Georgia’s early move to start easing stay-at-home restrictions nearly a month ago has done little to stem the state’s flood of unemployment claims — illustrating how hard it is to bring jobs back while consumers …

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Supreme Court poised to drastically reverse LGBTQ equality

Why Hundreds of Georgia Bus Drivers Just Staged a Massive Sickout

Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By max cyril

Robbie Brown loved her students. For 18 years, she drove them in her yellow bus to and from schools in DeKalb County, Georgia. And then, last Friday, two police officers showed up at Brown’s house with a letter. She’d been fired. Brown is one of at least seven drivers sacked after staging a “sickout” to …

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What Will Discrimination Cost Georgia?

1 Comment / discrimination / By max cyril

Fifty-two years after Lester Maddox famously chased African-Americans out of his restaurant with an ax handle, the phrase “We don’t serve your kind here” may be heard once again in Georgia. On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled Georgia General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a law that says the state may not “substantial burden a person’s exercise of religion …

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