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Shame on Corporations Using COVID-19 Pandemic to Attack Workers

While the coronavirus pandemic wreaks it's havoc on the world's population, working people are on the front lines, joining together to save lives and keep the U.S. running. And many are paying the ultimate price. The latest numbers from the CDC show that nearly 400,000 Americans have contracted the virus and more than 12,000 have died. We're currently facing one of the most challenging events in recent history.

And some greedy corporations are using this time to attack those working people, attempting to use a crisis to roll back the rights of the very people who are dying while keeping America running.

Everybody Has a Role
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Rhode Island AFL-CIO Helps Coordinate Distance Learning

With American students learning from home, teachers, school staffers and their unions are stepping up in a variety of ways to create innovative solutions to meet the educational needs of young people during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Service and Solidarity: Kennita Jones

Kennita Jones is a roll mixer and has been working at Schmidt Baking Co. for 19 years. She is a member of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers (BCTGM) Local 68 in Baltimore. Like so many of America’s workers deemed essential, Kennita still leaves her family
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Fighting the Coronavirus: Service and Solidarity

Meet Shekina Givens. She is an AFGE member and lead transportation security officer for the Transportation Security Administration and works at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Airport. She and her co-workers are in constant danger of getting COVID-19, but they show up for work to protect the traveling public every day. Learn more about her and other TSA workers during these dangerous times. 
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Richard Trumka on Frontline Workers and What the Labor Movement Is Doing to Ensure Workplace Safety (Bloomberg Radio)