CUPE says airline is cutting thousands of employees in a way that will prevent workers from accessing COVID-19 government aid

China’s National Peoples Congress (NPC) opened today, having been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic. The NPC is China’s version of a parliament and used by the Communist party leaders to report on the state of the economy and outline their plans for the future, both domestically and globally.

Marc Spooner, a faculty of education professor at the University of Regina, said performance measures tied to funding distort the purpose of a university to foster creative thinking and create well-rounded citizens by encouraging universities to act more like job training centres.

Spooner said the COVID-19 crisis has exposed the “utter folly” of the indicators.

Canadian weapons and military aid are flowing to far-right paramilitary units, ultranationalist factions in Ukraine

But cooks and cashiers present a vastly different view of the company’s motivations. Far from doing the right thing, they argue, the chain has endangered them for weeks in order to keep drive-throughs, takeout, and a handful of dining rooms open. On Wednesday, workers in 20 cities went on strike, the largest undertaken by McDonald’s workers in the pandemic era to date. They say they still don’t have enough protective gear, that they sometimes face retaliation from managers when they do ask for more masks or gloves, and that the absence of universal paid sick leave hampers the chain’s ability to halt infection in stores. Some workers have fallen ill, and others worry about taking the virus home.

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