Health care worker unions were associated with a 1.29 percentage point mortality reduction, which represents a 30% relative decrease in the COVID-19 mortality rate compared to facilities without health care worker unions. Unions were also associated with greater access to PPE, one mechanism that may link unions to lower COVID-19 mortality rates.

"As Liberal party leader, he decisively lost the 1988 federal election to Brian Mulroney over the Canada-US free trade agreement, which Turner vehemently opposed."

[W]hat the secular fall in the profitability of capital does tell you is that capitalism’s ability to develop the productive forces and take billions out of poverty and towards a world of abundance and harmony with nature is hopelessly impossible. Capitalism as a system is already past its sell-by date.