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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — At least 59,000 meatpacking workers caught COVID-19 and 269 workers...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — At least 59,000 meatpacking workers caught COVID-19 and 269 workers...

At least 59,000 meatpacking workers caught COVID-19 and 269 workers died last year, which is significantly more than previously thought, according to a new US House report released Wednesday.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — At least 59,000 meatpacking workers caught COVID-19 and 269 workers...

At least 59,000 meatpacking workers caught COVID-19 and 269 workers died when the virus tore through the industry last year, which is significantly more than previously thought, according to a new U.S. House report released Wednesday.

The new estimate of infections in the meatpacking industry is nearly three times higher than the number the United Food and Commercial Workers Union has said were infected.

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Held onto the narrative and kept repeating it and know it is their only way of winning elections now and in the near future because they are not selling anything to the american people that the american people want to buy. so what do they have to do? they have to win on a lie and it has to be minority rule and jerrjgary bander districts in the way that benefit them. they have to change voting rules around the country that makes it harder for black and brown people and minorities of different str...

Wear were living behind our essential workers. we have the working poor, we have the working homeless. 50% of the household heads in the new york city shelter system are working people. many of them are essential workers who put their lives at risk for all of us, but who find themselves languishing in a shelter because the rent is too damn high. there is not a single county in america where an essential worker earning minimum wage could afford a two-bedroom apartment. our essential workers made ...

This. west virginia is one of the poorest states in the united states of america, and you have a senator who is set for the rest of his natural life, and so are his children and his childrens children, and he wants to negotiate away? senator manchin, what do you want to negotiate away? is it child care? is it the implosion of mother earth? is it health care? brianna, hes not saying what it is. this is not about who is pragmatic and who is practical and who is progressive. this really is about in...