Essential workers across the country — including employees at grocery chains and online retailers — are planning to strike today over working conditions amid the pandemic. Nurses at scores of U.S. hospitals also plan to protest a lack of PPE.
Nurses stand in counter-protest during a demonstration against stay-at-home orders due to coronavirus concerns, at the State House in Providence, R.I., on Saturday.Nurses stand in counter-protest during a demonstration against stay-at-home orders due to coronavirus concerns, at the State House in Providence, R.I., on Saturday.
Meanwhile, nurses at scores of hospitals across the country plan to take to the streets to protest a lack of personal protective equipment to protect them against the disease; and independent truckers, fed up with low freight rates, plan a congestion-inducingThe May Day protests come as the country is on edge, with more than 1 million confirmed infections and some 63,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19, and after weeks of stay-at-home orders that haveout of a job, while employees deemed essential...
May Day: nurses will join with other members of the University of Chicago Labor Council and South Side community members for a May Day march to protest the university’s unfair labor practices and union busting efforts.
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