Rebecca Mallery, who is applying for subsidized housing for herself, and her 9-year-old son, Chord Pagel, outside her home in Bullhead City, Ariz. on July 28, 2020. (Joe Buglewicz/The New York Times) For Sara Gard, the government’s safety net moved smoothly into place when the coronavirus pandemic upended her family’s […]
Workers
California Child Care Workers Win Biggest Union Election In Years
Publicly funded child care providers in California have voted overwhelmingly to form a union, marking what organizers believe is the biggest U.S. union organizing election victory in years. Roughly 43,000 child care providers will now be able to negotiate with the state over a contract that could impact the funding […]
California Child Care Workers Win Biggest Union Organizing Election In Years
Publicly funded child care providers in California have voted overwhelmingly to form a union, marking what organizers believe is the biggest U.S. union organizing election victory in years. Roughly 43,000 child care providers will now be able to negotiate with the state over a contract that could impact the funding […]
PortMiami renegotiates terminal deals, local workers brace for more cruise-less months
Just last November, PortMiami was bustling with construction workers bringing to life five new cruise terminals and two cruise company headquarters. Future cruise business was all but guaranteed: Fiscal year 2020 was set to break the port’s 2019 record of 6.8 million passengers, up 22 percent from 2018. The county […]
Orlando Workers Face Virus’s Fallout
An aerial view of an empty Magic Kingdom at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., May 6, 2020. (Eve Edelheit/The New York Times) ORLANDO, Fla. — Four thousand phone calls. To be more specific, Paul and Julia Cox figure they called the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity 4,480 times between April […]
Curfews Make Life Even Harder For Essential Workers
Medical personnel, grocery store employees and food delivery workers were already carrying more than their share of the burden of the novel coronavirus outbreak. Now they have something else to worry about. Cities including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington have imposed curfews in recent days in response […]