COVID-19
Meat-Plant Workers Call for Vaccine Priority
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Meat-plant workers agree that health-care workers and the elderly should top the initial list, but the industry also is pushing for top priority.
Commentary
There’s Only One Way to Recover From the Pandemic: Together
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Despite the discrimination and stigma we often face, we are committed to strengthening and unifying the country we call home. No matter whether you’re black, white, or brown, we all bleed the same red blood.
COVID-19
Giving Thanks to Immigrants and Essential Workers
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Many immigrants are even more at risk as essential workers. Give thanks to them this holiday season!
Trump Races to Weaken Environmental and Worker Protections, and Implement Other Last-Minute Policies, Before Jan. 20
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The Trump administration is rushing to approve dozens of eleventh-hour policy changes. Among them: The Justice Department is fast-tracking a rule that could reintroduce firing squads and electrocutions to federal executions.
COVID-19
Workers Strike in Fargo
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Around 70 employees of food distribution company Cash-Wa began striking in North Dakota on Wednesday over concerns about COVID-19.
Community
The Enraging Deja Vu of a Third Coronavirus Wave
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Health care workers don’t need patronizing praise. They need resources, federal support, and for us to stay healthy and out of their hospitals. In many cases, none of that is happening.
COVID-19
On the Frontlines of Democracy
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As the COVID-19 health crisis surges in Minnesota, election workers are on the frontlines of democracy and the pandemic.
COVID-19
MN Health Expert: “Darkest Days” of COVID Lie Ahead
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Minnesota is seeing an acceleration of COVID-19 cases and deaths, and a leading local epidemiologist warns the region and the nation could be in for a rough winter.
COVID-19
As hospital cuts loom in St. Paul, workers demand accountability, engagement from M Health Fairview
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With hundreds of jobs at stake, union nurses and health care workers are sounding the alarm on M Health Fairview’s plan to slash services at two St. Paul hospitals and close 16 clinics across the region.
COVID-19
Outbreak: Coronavirus in America’s poultry plant
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In the early months of the pandemic, meatpacking plants emerged as deadly hot spots for COVID-19.