Tag: essential workers
OPINION: Shared sacrifice
By TOM CONWAY
President
United Steelworkers
Chad Longpre Shepersky repeatedly took COVID-19 tests—and waited on pins and needles for results each time—during a coronavirus outbreak at Guardian...
OPINION: Grocery workers still on the pandemic frontlines, but without hazard...
By DAVID COOK
President
UFCW Local 655
In Missouri, frontline workers are continuing to show up for our communities every single day despite the very real dangers...
Illinois expands workers comp for first responders, health care workers
Springfield, IL – Illinois Gov. J.R. Pritzker has signed into law a bill to expand worker’s compensation benefits for first responders, health care workers,...
Essential workers caravan in downtown St. Louis to demand PPE, better...
Downtown St. Louis – As Congress debated the next round of federal stimulus legislation, essential workers caravanned through downtown St. Louis May 14, to...
OPINION: Who’s an ‘essential’ worker?
Hint: It’s not the boss
By MARK GRUENBERG
PAI Union News
Who’s an “essential worker” in a time of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent shutdowns, financial decline...
St. Louis Labor Council urges participation in Rise Up for Heroes...
The St. Louis Labor Movement is enthusiastically endorsing the Rise Up For Heroes efforts to recognize our community’s front-line heroes for putting themselves in...
RISE UP FOR HEROES: Come out at 7 p.m. tonight to...
This evening, and every evening at 7 p.m., everyone in our bi-state Missouri/Illinois region is encouraged to go out on their porch, or hang...
Who is protecting ‘essential’ construction workers?
Painters union calls on Congress to protect America’s essential heroes on and off the job
The COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the construction industry,...