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Work safety strike, virus lockdown protest set for May Day
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LOS ANGELES – Essential workers will strike nationwide on May Day to demand safer conditions during the coronavirus outbreak, while other groups plan rallies against tight stay-at-home orders they say are crippling the U.S.
economy. Organizers say employees of Amazon, Whole Foods, Target, Fedex and other companies have become the unexpected frontline workers of the pandemic.
Employees will walk off the job or call out sick Friday on International Workers Day in cities across the U.S. to demand unpaid time off work, hazard pay, sick leave, protective gear and cleaning supplies.
They say flawed policies by employers caused some of their co-workers to contract COVID-19. “For these reasons, we are engaging in a mass sickout and exercising
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