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This #LaborDay, we're thinking about:
1/ The home health aides and nursing assistants who look after our most vulnerable but are paid no more than the minimum wage.
They deserve better. @etammykim @nytimes @RBReich
nytimes.com/2020/06/30/opi…
This #LaborDay, we're thinking about:
1/ The home health aides and nursing assistants who look after our most vulnerable but are paid no more than the minimum wage.
They deserve better. @etammykim @nytimes @RBReich
nytimes.com/2020/06/30/opi…
2/ The sex workers who are struggling to make ends meet during the pandemic, especially in Puerto Rico.
They deserve rights like everyone else. @thenation @AriMejorado @LaSombrillaCuir @swopusa #LaborDay2020
thenation.com/article/econom…
They deserve rights like everyone else. @thenation @AriMejorado @LaSombrillaCuir @swopusa #LaborDay2020
thenation.com/article/econom…
3/ The hundreds of sick workers who are fighting for their lives after cleaning up the 2008 Kingston coal ash spill — America's largest industrial disaster.
They deserve justice. @southerlymag @AustynGaffney @morganhornsby_ @jamiescoop #LaborDay2020
southerlymag.org/2020/08/17/the…
They deserve justice. @southerlymag @AustynGaffney @morganhornsby_ @jamiescoop #LaborDay2020
southerlymag.org/2020/08/17/the…
4/ The estimated 36,000 media workers who have lost their jobs or been furloughed since the start of the pandemic.
We must prevent the extinction of journalists as a species. @lisquart @CJR @trittscamera @PENamerica #LaborDay2020
cjr.org/opinion/indepe…
We must prevent the extinction of journalists as a species. @lisquart @CJR @trittscamera @PENamerica #LaborDay2020
cjr.org/opinion/indepe…
5/ The frontline workers who have lost their lives to the coronavirus, like the ones poignantly memorialized here by illustrator @stevebrodner in @washingtonpost.
May they rest in power. @DavidRwallis
washingtonpost.com/graphics/opini…
May they rest in power. @DavidRwallis
washingtonpost.com/graphics/opini…
6/ The doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19, especially the brave women and men at @umichmedicine. @elliottwoods @WIRED
wired.com/story/in-one-h…
wired.com/story/in-one-h…
7/ The adjunct professors trying to survive during COVID-19, particularly the ones illustrated here by @CityTechNews's Prof. Olivia Schanzer. @believermag #LaborDay2020
believermag.com/logger/profess…
believermag.com/logger/profess…
8/ This #LaborDay, we're also thinking about the delivery drivers, shelf stockers, nurses, janitors, cashiers, and other essential workers who have always made the earth move.
And now are forced to risk their lives doing it. —@mollycrabapple @thenation
thenation.com/article/societ…
And now are forced to risk their lives doing it. —@mollycrabapple @thenation
thenation.com/article/societ…
