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How Workers and Management at One Company Teamed Up to Fight the Pandemic

Leave a Comment / Pandemic, unions / By max cyril

For months, Penny Burroughs kept a close eye on working conditions at PCI Pharma Services and worried about her colleagues contracting COVID-19. Burroughs and other representatives of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 286 collaborated with the pharmaceutical packaging company on intensive safety plans—including on-site medical care and a shuttle service—to protect workers. And because these cooperative, …

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Trump’s transgender military ban met with backlash

Leave a Comment / Transgender, Uncategorized / By max cyril

President Donald Trump signed a long-awaited directive Friday evening that bans transgender people from enlisting in the U.S. military and bans the Department of Defense from providing military treatment to current transgender service members. The directive follows an announcement Trump made on Twitter last month, blindsiding the defense secretary and the public more broadly — and like last time, …

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A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer

Leave a Comment / labor, low-wage jobs / By max cyril

Come sunrise, the men fill the street corner, among them Luis, quietly sitting by himself, nurturing hopes for work today. There was no work yesterday, nothing the day before and nothing for weeks. Still, the 50-year-old Guatemalan, who didn’t want his last name used, waits in the growing heat, saying he has no other choice. …

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How Workers and Management at One Company Teamed Up to Fight the Pandemic

Trump’s transgender military ban met with backlash

A Day in the Life of a Day Laborer

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