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COVID-19 testing is fast, safe and open to anyone free of charge at 21 community testing sites across Minnesota. That’s the message state health officials want union members – and all frontline workers – to hear as more businesses, schools and other gathering places begin reopening to the public. As a small group of union […]
Nurses say masks could help “stave off a resurgence of the vicious COVID-19 virus that has ravaged this state.”
“To workers who have contracted COVID, this is for you,” Minnesota Nurses Association President Mary Turner said.
Union leaders are taking COVID-19 – and their members’ concerns about the pandemic – seriously.
“It’s about keeping yourself safe, keeping the workers safe and keeping the community safe,” UFCW Local 1189 President Jennifer Christensen said.
Racist resentment against Asian Pacific Americans is a recurring pattern in American history, and it’s rearing its ugly head during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Efforts to halt the spread of COVID-19 are creating immediate economic hardship for many working families, but help is available during the crisis.
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Minnesota grows higher, prompting the state’s health care system to brace for a wave of hospitalizations, registered nurses are holding a collection drive at their union headquarters in St. Paul to stock up on personal protective equipment (PPE) and other supplies. The public’s support in just the […]
Unions seek protective gear, emergency sick leave, bonding bill as part of pandemic response.
The epidemic puts a grim spotlight on access to sick leave in the U.S.
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