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Dead Teachers Can’t Teach
Today, August 3rd teachers in Knoxville, Tennessee report to work. Despite climbing COVID rates and fears and anxieties of teachers, parents and students, the superintendent of Knox County schools has not backtracked from his plan to ...
โI donโt think Tysonโs gives two shits about their workers.โ
It was the workers and their kids who shut down Tysonโs Waterloo, Iowa meatpacking plant on April 22, 2020. Not the governor of Iowa, Kim Reynolds, who seemed to show more concern for the hogs who ...
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Losing Kathy: Slow Violence and Social Service Work in New York City
One of my last conversations at Ladders Services was with the Medical Examinerโs office after I heard Kathy had died.* My cubicle was in a cellar with an open floor plan, shared with other cubicles, and ...
An NYC Doctorโs Life During COVID-19
โIโm not heroic. I was never planning to be.โ A 30-something year old New York City doctor gives an account of how COVID-19 has affected her life at work and home. The edited interview took place ...
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Teaching in the Time of COVID
Like thousands of professors around the country and the globe, I suddenly find myself conducting all my personal and professional affairs through my computer screen. Stationed on my couch as my classroom, office, and Kanopy โn ...
“We Need to Change the Way We Live”: An ICU Nurse Speaks Out
Today we caught up with Sam, a nurse working in a cardiac ICU unit at a medium-sized private hospital in Newark NJ. In Samโs workplace, a nurse was recently suspended for organizing a gofundme page to ...
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“An Incredible Catch-22”: An Emergency Nurse Discusses the COVID-19 Crisis
HC: Tell us what you do for work. I am an emergency department nurse in Oregon.ย HC: What was your workplace like before the Coronavirus? Nursing in an emergency department is partly mental health for people ...
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โYouโre Not Gonna Use This as a Way to Fuck Us Overโ: A Discussion with Luis Brennan from Burgerville Workers Union
HC: Tell us what you do for work.ย Iโm a fast food worker. I work mostly the grill at a fast food place at the Portland Airport–a company called Burgerville. I also do a shit ton ...
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โAmazon is Knowingly Putting Their Customers at Riskโ: A Florida Amazon worker speaks out
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I work for Amazon out here in Miami. Working conditions are less than optimal. We are constantly breathing in a bunch of dust all day, in the back of trailers for hours on end with no ...
โRight Now Everything is a Mess!โ: Conversations with an MTA Train Conductor
The MTA in New York City and the surrounding suburbs employs 74,000 workers. It has disclosed that there are 23 people who have tested positive for the Covid-19. Leo is one of 7,000 workers in his ...