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“With demand for emergency food assistance at an all-time high during the pandemic, it’s been amazing to see local unions step up this winter to connect more Minnesota families with free, fresh food available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farmers to Families Food Box program,” Regional Labor Federation President Kera Peterson said.
New data shows job security has been exacerbated by the pandemic, and the problem could continue.
March 13th is the one year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. Essential workers share their stories of sacrifice and ask for protection.
When a farmworker nearly died from COVID-19, Spokane’s Latinx community stepped in where the system failed.
“They were named essential workers at the expense of their health. They didn’t have a choice from the beginning.”
A key House subcommittee cited reports by ProPublica and other news outlets in launching an investigation into how the country’s meatpacking companies handled the pandemic, which has killed hundreds of workers to date.
A century of agrarian organizing pays off.
How this label is used to justify a social order in which workers are abused, discarded and left to die.
COVID-19 testing is fast, safe and open to anyone free of charge at 21 community testing sites across Minnesota. That’s the message state health officials want union members – and all frontline workers – to hear as more businesses, schools and other gathering places begin reopening to the public. As a small group of union leaders toured the testing site inside St. Paul’s Roy Wilkins Auditorium today, state officials emphasized that testing remains critical to containing the coronavirus outbreak. And containing the outbreak is critical to keeping Minnesota schools and businesses open.
Educators and community members are worried about reopening classrooms in February.