“Whether it is low wages, abusive bosses, or police brutality, our community is in a lot of pain,” Shenda Kazee said. “There are so many injustices I have witnessed firsthand that never make the news. Minneapolis definitely needs to change.”
A couple employed by an airport catering company haven’t worked since March. They’re struggling to make ends meet.
“Unfortunately, we see a lot of people getting sick and not receiving the proper medical care and resources that they need,” one farmworker said. “For the governor to continuously ignore us is incredibly irresponsible.”
Grocery workers say they are encouraged to overcrowd stores—while their CEO writes that unionization is against the chain’s “values.”
“We want the casino to open,” says a server at Caesars. “I want to go back to work. But they have to do it responsibly.”
A new state bill aimed to protect the jobs of hourly school employees amid the COVID-19 pandemic. But language protecting those workers was rejected by the Senate.
Workers at 75 Wall Street in New York are demanding management return to the bargaining table.
“I want to remind the owners of the factories that they’re the ones who can save our lives.”
A home care attendant is determined to keep helping her vulnerable clients. “I’ve been in this field eighteen years,” she said. “So why would I turn my back now, when I know they need me to feed them?”
Workers at the grocery chain are being asked to return emergency pay, even as company revenue and stock prices climb upward.
Two restaurant workers tell their stories.
Graduate students are doing essential work researching pandemics. They have no guarantee that work will continue.
“They have very unrealistic expectations of workers sacrificing their health so that people can buy makeup.”
Graduate student-workers, who are paid on a nine-month schedule, are worried about the summer.
A pharmacy technician who tested positive for COVID-19 worries that not enough has been done to protect his coworkers—and that he faces a backlash for speaking out.
