"The pandemic has taken an undisputed toll on doctors, nurses and other front-line health care workers. But it has also ravaged the often-invisible army of nonmedical workers in hospitals, many of whom have fallen ill or died with little public recognition of their roles."

Health officials say five workers tested positive for COVID-19 at a warehouse facility north of Calgary that handles orders for the global online marketplace Amazon.

"The former US special forces medic, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, offered no evidence for those claims and it was unclear where the video had been recorded. There were no reports of fighting in the capital, Caracas."

Amazon is reportedly (and suddenly) enforcing rules limiting employees' internal communication as workers, critical of the company's behavior, become increasingly outspoken and organized.

Internal listservs with more than 500 participants are now required to move to a moderated model where a manager must approve any content before its distribution, according to emails obtained by Recode.

How might we imagine a transition to a socialist economy? There are clues in unlikely places: the management practices of some private corporations, which have been developing planned, democratic economies in miniature.

Megan Kinch delivers the perspective of a precarious tradeswoman working and walking off as an "essential" worker.

The workers also expressed concerns that delays in the provision of personal protective equipment like masks and gloves made an outbreak inevitable.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper needed Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Sunday on "State of the Union," asking whether sexual assault allegations against former VP Joe Biden deserve the same attention that Democrats gave similar allegations against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Wittmer said she trusts Biden

A vice president at Amazon has quit "in dismay" at the internet giant's crackdown against workers who criticised it over coronavirus safety measures.

Tim Bray said the firing of protesters was "evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture".

The National Farmers Union (NFU) offers heartfelt condolences to family and friends of the Cargill beef packing plant worker who lost her life to COVID-19 on…

Michael Moore has defended the rights and interests of working people for decades. But his new film, Planet of the Humans, embraces anti-humanist, anti–working class narratives of overpopulation and overconsumption.

The pretence of neutrality in the media serves only to disguise the politics that companies represent – and, increasingly, to police the opinions of young journalists who want to hold power to account.

"Health Minister said international partners, including China, Venezuela and especially have been of great assistance throughout this entire crisis."

With ‘stay at home’ essential to the COVID-19 response, the dwellings in which people live take on added importance in their lives. In Statistics Canada’s Canadian Perspectives Survey Series (CPSS) fielded the week of March 29, 90% of respondents reported they were avoiding leaving their home as part of their COVID-19 response. Extended time indoors is likely to raise various challenges, such as getting physical exercise, maintaining social contacts, or balancing telework, children and home schooling, and household routines in a confined space. Such pressures are reflected in the March CPSS responses, with one-third of Canadians reporting concerns about confinement and family stress. ‘Stay at home’ may raise other challenges, such as maintaining physical distance in multi-unit buildings where lobbies, elevators, or laundry facilities are shared.

Union is fighting to keep the Cargill plant, site of Canada's largest coronavirus outbreak, closed

May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.

What with big-tech salaries and share vestings, this will probably cost me over a million (pre-tax) dollars, not to mention the best job I’ve ever had, working with awfully good people. So I’m pretty blue.

We speak with Dr. Richard Levitan, an emergency physician based in Littleton, New Hampshire, who volunteered at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan for 10 days at the height of the COVID-19 surge in April. Based on what he saw, he argues patients should be going to hospitals sooner and that medical professionals could use a small device you clip on your fingertip, called a pulse oximeter, to help detect the virus earlier by revealing oxygenation problems and elevated heart rates. “A pulse oximeter is just a measure of identifying how well the lungs are working, and, I believe, can be basically an early warning system in terms of patients to know who has COVID pneumonia,” says Dr. Levitan.

The decline of the U.S. as a global power is accelerating. But the U.S. refuses to come to terms with this geopolitical reality and is determined to perpetuate its domination of the global arena, no matter what it takes. China and Russia have been cast in the ‘enemy’ image. In the short term at least, tensions will rise–in the U.S.-China relations, in particular.