Trump ordered meatpacking plants open — now, workers are left holding the bag | TheHill

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/519645-trump-ordered-meatpacking-plants-open-now-workers-are-left-holding-the

'We're expendable': black Americans pay the price as states lift lockdowns

Experts warn reopening states could have dire consequences on public health, and black Americans already face greater risk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/covid-19-lockdowns-african-americans-essential-workers

Why America's Most Essential Workers Are Poorly Treated - The Atlantic

They’ve been systematically devalued for years. But they don’t have to be. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/why-are-americas-most-essential-workers-so-poorly-treated/611575/

As McConnell tries to hold aid to states and cities hostage, mass layoffs of public employees begin

While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is saying he'll block aid to states and cities unless he gets the gift of no liability for companies that endanger their workers and customers, cities and states are laying off workers, potentially by the hundreds of thousands—perhaps millions. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/4/29/1941380/-As-McConnell-tries-to-hold-aid-to-states-and-cities-hostage-mass-layoffs-of-public-employees-begin

Keeping America fed: six workers on life in the thick of the coronavirus crisis

While millions of Americans shelter in place, either working from home or newly unemployed, essential workers are manning grocery stores, restaurants, fields and warehouses every day to keep the country fed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/22/americas-food-system-frontline-workers-interviews-illustrated

Essential or Expendable? Farmworkers Condemn Lack of Protection and Economic Help during Pandemic

As the coronavirus sweeps through the United States, the country’s 2.5 million farmworkers are continuing to go to work every day, often facing crowded and unsanitary conditions without personal protective equipment, for poverty wages. We speak with Gerardo Reyes Chávez, a farmworker leader with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, who describes the conditions farmworkers in Florida are facing and how they are calling on Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to protect farmworkers during the COVID-19 crisis, and with Mónica Ramírez, president and founder of Justice for Migrant Women and co-founder of the National Farmworkers Women’s Alliance.
https://youtu.be/1BfgFUXsoiQ