Posted on 04/30/2020 4:14:40 PM PDT by Libloather
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - May Day usually brings thousands of people to downtown Los Angeles for a march and protest for workers’ rights, but that won’t happen this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing.
Instead, essential workers of large corporations that have become vital lifelines during the pandemic will walk off the job to demand better health and safety conditions, along with hazard pay, on International Worker’s Day, which is observed around the world on May 1.
According to organizers, workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Target and Instacart will call out sick or walk off the job during their lunch breaks Friday.
Christian Smalls, who was fired by Amazon after organizing a strike at the online retail giant’s Staten Island warehouse, posted the news release of Friday’s walkout/sickout on Twitter.
“Our companies have failed us during these unprecedented times,” the news release said. “At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic essential workers were subjected to exposure in our workplaces due to lack of PPE, flawed policies and dense safety guidelines. Because of the failings of our employers, many of our fellow employees have contracted this deadly virus and some have died.”
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
MayDay celebrations all around the world by Commies, socialists etc. Well then again they are in California.
I’m willing to wait and see until tomorrow before getting steamed. My guess is despite the hype there will be little or no strike.
“If you’re essential, you’re not allowed to strike under federal law. That’s why police and fire fighters can only get away (barely) with sick-outs.”
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I was a labor lawyer for 35 years. You’re wrong - under federal law, private sector employees are protected in their right to concertedly protest work safety conditions by striking/walking off their jobs (and they don’t get paid for such time on strike) - UNLESS there has a been a prior formal declaration under federal law that their work is necessary for the national security (that’s how Truman was able to stop steel strikes during the Korean War). There has been no such formal declaration (except maybe the other day for the meat packing plant employees; I haven’t read about that specifically because I’m now retired!). If they walk off their jobs, they can’t lawfully be fired for doing so (under the National Labor Relations Act) but they can be permanently replaced if that’s done before they make an unconditional offer to return to work. In such an event, they still have first recall rights to jobs as they open up.
The examples you give of police and firefighters are not the same because they are public employees who are prohibited from striking by state laws.
Why is an Amazon worker more “essential” than a park employee? There is no common sense left in this country.
Communist national holiday... Has nothing to do with "snowflakes" (unless they are communists)
Oh no, wherever will they find replacements. Oh, wait...
bookmark.
all these leftists to be avoided like the plague.
I thought I would order online from a local grocery store about 3 weeks ago on a Thursday and when I went to check out the order it said Instacart and it would arrive Tuesday....
I never did order as it was not Instant. I was expecting a few hours but they must have been swamped.
I actually drove 15 miles to a mask free store in Ventura near where I work and got what I wanted.
Great. Supposed to get my lawn mower parts tomorrow. Guess I will have to wait.
Not all businesses are like that, some stay open and in business for example restaurants who converted to take out only and had to lay off cooks, waiters, busboys.
After the bill with this provision in it passed, level headed congress critters attempted to rescind that section with another vote the next day. Their attempt failed, probably because the Dems saw what lovely havoc it would cause as the presidential election approaches - maybe they were the ones who slipped it in, no mistake at all.
Fire them all. You will be back to full employment in 24 hours
Yep. I’m not going to say who but one friend of mine told me last night no way in hell is he going back to work. Not only is he getting the extra $600 till July, he told me they also extended unemployment an extra 13 weeks. So when his original 26 weeks is up he gets an additional 13 weeks. What the hell? That’s almost 10 months of no work. If we have millions of people doing that we’re going have a depression.
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