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The shot made by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE was overwhelmingly effective against the virus in a study, prompting experts to say that immunizations can end the pandemic. Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine is safe and effective, U.S. regulators said, a milestone toward giving Americans the first shot to work in a single dose.
âEssentialâ Workers Still Endangered by COVID-19 Biden and Congress must boost OSHA standards and enforcement to stifle the pandemic. More than a year into a pandemic that has killed nearly half a million Americans, millions of workers still toil in dangerous infection-spreading conditions, in hospitals and clinics, nursing homes, factories, supermarkets, and fieldsâperilously providing Americaâs food and health care in hazardous conditions. While there is no single source enumerating COVID-19 health effects on workers, there is ample reliable data showing that worker expo...
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis launched an investigation into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on meatpacking workers.
US poultry plant workers complain of intimidation after fatal chemical leak Lewis Kendall © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/AFP/Getty Meat plant workers who were injured and displaced after a fatal accident in the US last month are alleged to have been intimidated and offered limited medical care. A liquid nitrogen leak at a Foundation Food Group poultry plant in Gainesville, Georgia, killed six people in January and hospitalised at least 11 others. A coalition of organisers, attorneys and community members claims that, since the fatal incident, worker...
Union election in Alabama: Which way forward for Amazon workers? The 5,800 workers at the BHM1 Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama, will soon vote on whether to accept representation by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), an affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW). Mail-in voting will start February 8 and end March 29 with the tally expected the next day. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rejected a motion by Amazon to delay the vote. Amazon workers protest unsafe working conditions in Staten Island, New York, on March 30,...