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Employees working in warehouses for Amazon and other companies say the distribution centers are often windowless and a breeding-ground for COVID-19. They called for higher wages and better working conditions.
Photo credit: Getty Images Workers in food distribution, production, and logistics who are employed by temporary staffing agencies and other subcontractors should be prioritized for early access to the COVID-19 vaccine alongside other food system workers, argues a new report focused on the Chicago labor force. States are generally planning to allocate the vaccine to agricultural, grocery, and other food system workers in the first or early second phase of distribution. Workers and advocates with Warehouse Workers for Justice (WWJ), Chicago Workers’ Collaborative (CWC), and other g...
Uber, Illinois labor group call for certain contingent workers to get priority for Covid-19 vaccine December 14, 2020 Should contingent workers get priority access to the Covid-19 vaccine? Some have begun calling for certain parts of the workforce ecoystem to get priority for the vaccine. Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE: UBER) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called on governors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to give independent contractor drivers and delivery people early access to vaccines. “These frontline workers should get the vaccine before people like me,” Khosrowshahi said in a t...