COVID-19 Labor Related Press

 

May 18

AFL-CIO sues feds over coronavirus workplace safety

Emergency Paid Leave Helps Some Families, Leaves Others Adrift

Cuomo and MTA tap low-wage, uninsured workers to scrub subway for coronavirus

COVID Adds to PATH Unions' Long Ordeal

 

May 17

Essential Workers Can Get Free Car Rides In Subway Shutdown: MTA

Transit workers are paying a heavy price during the pandemic

NYC Eyes Schools as Social Distance-Friendly Cooling Centers

 

May 16

NYC subway workers had plenty to do before a TikTok prankster dumped milk and cereal in a train

 

May 15

NYC transit workers union rolls out 10-point plan to keep New Yorkers, mass transit workers safe during once COVID-19 crisis passes

Contract Workers Cleaning NYC Subways Claim They Have Dirty Supplies, Inadequate PPE

 

May 14

A 'full-blown she-cession': How COVID-19 is economically hurting women, minorities the most

Actors' Equity Calls For Arts Relief In the Wake of FROZEN Closing

Homeless Sent From Subway to Social Distancing Nightmares

Healthcare union celebrates its frontline workers with caravan through Queens

State outlines social-distancing standards for construction site

 

May 12

Broadway cancels shows through end of summer

Whole Foods Splurged On Expensive Thermal Imaging Cameras, But Employees Question Their Effectiveness

As Trump urges reopening, thousands getting sick on the job

 

May 11

Nonprofit Workers Turn to Unions During Pandemic Uncertainty

Voices From the Pandemic’s Front Lines

NYC federal jail staff complains about ‘crap’ coronavirus face masks made by inmates earning less than $1 per hour

Newsroom Unions Call On Employers To Protect Media Workers And Their Jobs As Economy Begins To Reopen

How You Can Help Protect the Health of Grocery Workers During COVID-19

 

May 10

Why the Path to Reopening New York City Will Be So Difficult

Examining Amazon's Treatment of its Workers

260 NYC Workers Have Died From COVID-19

Unemployed New Yorkers Cling to Fragile Pandemic Safety Net

NYC Teachers Pitch Their Own Plans for Reopening

 

May 9

As Job Losses Mount, Lawmakers Face a Make-or-Break Moment

A New York City Hospital is investigating a nurse for sharing footage with The Intercept

Staggered Schedules? Partitions? Office Life in NYC Will Look Different When You Return.

 

May 8

'Last responders' play vital role in pandemic

RWDSU head rips Trump move to keep meat plants open

NYSNA: State Must Protect Essential Workers Before It's Ready to Reopen

“They Are Expendable”: Who’s Paying to Reopen Business?

 

May 7

Entertainment Union Leaders Demonstrate Unity in Uncertain Time

HOMETOWN HELPERS: With Broadway dark due to coronavirus, costumers now producing masks for NYers in need

New York City firefighter's union president says Mayor de Blasio is threatening jobs and using first responders as pawns

If Trump Wants Meat Plants Open, He Should Protect Their Workers

Senators Want to Know if Amazon Retaliated Against Whistle-Blowers

NYC Chipotle Employees Protest Unsafe Working Conditions

FDNY Union Blasts Mayor Over Possible Layoffs

 

May 6

What We Learned When the 12 Largest Entertainment Unions Gathered to Discuss the COVID-19 Pandemic

On National Nurses Day, Trump rebukes nurse after she laments ‘sporadic’ access to protective gear

Untold Number Of Gig Workers & Freelancers In NY Still Anxiously Awaiting Unemployment Checks

Garbage Bag Ponchos for Workers Moving Homeless People's Belongings

‘They forgot about us’: NYC janitors and doormen plead with Congress for coronavirus relief

Actors’ Equity President Kate Shindle Speaks Out About Arts Funding: 'Congress Must Do More'

 

May 5

Worker at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse dies of coronavirus, advocates demand shutdown

Staten Island Amazon Warehouse Worker Dies From Coronavirus

MTA Bus Drivers Brace for Subway Shutdown Unruliness Spillover

Arts Groups Fight Their Insurers Over Coverage on Virus Losses

Appreciating Building Service Workers

 

May 4

Even with budget shortfalls, museums avoid tapping into endowments, instead laying off workers

3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead.

Masks Back at Welfare Offices After Mayor Balks at Rule Reversal

 

May 3

Coronavirus poses a tough question: Did NYC essential workers die in the line of duty?

‘A slap in the face:' Hundreds of front line NYC school food service workers haven’t been paid in a month

 

May 2

NYC Makes Masks Optional at Welfare Officers After Clients Defy Rule

We Can't Afford to Lose the Postal Service

NYC’s only public school nurse killed by coronavirus caught it at work, brother says

Kickstarter union reaches agreement with management for laid-off workers

 

May 1

Labor unions are on the front lines in battle over worker protections

Anti-Union Operative Warns Business of Historic Rise in Labor Activism

Mark Workers Memorial Day From A Distance, Another Virus Casualty

Celebrating May Day Starts by Taking Workers Seriously

This May Day, Honor Labor by Compensating It

FDNY fire inspectors sue over salaries, lack of protective gear during coronavirus pandemic

Public companies received $1 billion in stimulus funds meant for small businesses

The Essential Workers Filling New York's Coronavirus Wards

MTA chairman says 98 transit workers dead from coronavirus

MTA to shut down overnight subway service

NYC Teachers Union Head Suggests Staggered Student Schedules For This Fall

Cleaners risk health to work during pandemic, then lose jobs

High Death Toll in Transit Jobs From Coronavirus Prompts Union Militancy

 

April 30

Thousands of NYC school bus workers furloughed after city declines to renew bus company contracts because of coronavirus shutdown

'I’m Scared': U.S. Workers in Reopening States Face an Impossible Choice

'This is like 9/11 every day.' NYC EMS chief tells how his responders work 16 hour shifts and sleep in their cars to answer calls - but Mayor de Blasio refuses to recognize their deaths as 'in the line of duty' so families can receive benefits

NYC School Food Service Workers, Serving Millions Of Meals, Fear Coronavirus Exposure

The new normal: 8 ways the coronavirus crisis is changing construction

 

April 29

Study Finds Unions Make Companies More Productive

An unprecedented coalition of Amazon, Walmart, FedEx, Target, Instacart, and Whole Foods workers is planning to strike over pandemic working conditions

Amazon Warehouse Packers Say They're Jammed onto Staten Island Buses

 

April 28

They’re Still Working at the Airports, and They’re Scared

Fired in a Pandemic ‘Because We Tried to Start a Union,’ Workers Say

Coronavirus Death Toll for NYC Education Department Hits 68

More Essential Than Ever, Low-Wage Workers Demand More

 

April 27

'Possible Covid': Why the Lulls Never Last for Weary EMS Crews

‘Risking My Life’ to Truck In Milk, Wine and Hand Sanitizer

 

April 26

#ShopSmart campaign urges N.Y. shoppers to help keep workers safe

HOMETOWN HELPERS: Renowned Brooklyn clothier founded by Holocaust survivor now making masks to keep NYers safe from coronavirus

 

April 25

Gov. Cuomo expands coronavirus testing to health workers, essential businesses and first responders

Laid-off servers at NYC’s Nello claim millionaire owner stiffed them

For Many Immigrants, an Even Greater Risk

 

April 24

What You Need to Know if You're an Essential Worker in NYC

'A Power Grab': Postal Union Slams Trump for Holding USPS Funds Hostage to Force 'Draconian Cuts'

'We've Seen A Lot Of Brothers Die.' NYC Bus Operators Witness Loss Amid Pandemic

‘They Want to Forget Us’: Psychiatric Hospital Workers Feel Exposed

A New Way to Think About Making Work Fair

Amazon’s white-collar workers are starting to stand up for their blue-collar colleagues

NYC teachers union says remote learning could continue in the fall

United Mandates Masks for Flight Attendants, Unions Want Passengers Included

 

April 23

Nonprofits on front lines call for protections for their workers, too

Trauma On The Pandemic's Front Line Leaves Health Workers Reeling

HOMETOWN HELPERS: ‘Extremely essential’ internet techs keep NYC communities connected during coronavirus crisis

Stores struggle to get shoppers to wear masks

Musical Outburst To Honor NYC Coronavirus Frontline Workers

Teachers run a free face-shield factory

Essential workers are taking care of America. Are we taking care of them?

NYU Leadership Gaslights Residents Over Hazard Pay

 

April 22

How N.Y.C. Struggled to Protect the Workers Who Still Had to Show Up

HOMETOWN HELPERS: NYC fashion professionals design medical gowns for hospital staff battling coronavirus

NYS nurses lodge hundreds of formal protests with hospitals in connection with coronavirus

Restaurant Layoffs in NY Continue to Outpace National Averages, Survey Says

'We're seeing more dead bodies than we've ever had to': First responders describe the guilt, trauma, and hopelessness of battling the coronavirus in New York

MTA construction moves forward with few hiccups during coronavirus crisis; crews see low infection rate

 

April 21

New York City's Coronavirus Essential Workers Are Overwhelmingly People Of Color

Spectrum Workers Inevitably Got Covid-19 After Being Barred From Working at Home

Staten Island Immigrants Pivot to Mask-Making After Job Loss

How Many Health Care Workers Are Sick with Coronavirus? No One Knows

DOC officers accuse city leadership of not doing enough to protect them amid COVID-19

'I don't want this job to kill me': why have 68 New York transit workers died during the pandemic?

How Broadway's Crews and Creatives and Keeping Busy During COVID-19

 

April 20

NYC trainee doctors on coronavirus frontlines want better pay and protection, but fear hurting their careers if they speak out

Cornavirus pandemic rages at NYC’s federal jails — and numbers back lawyers’ and staffers’ claims that management has a poor grip on the problem

Nurses Face Scores More Deaths Amid Protective Gear Shortage, Union Suit Charges

 

April 19

Heroes of the Day: 911 operators give lifeline to desperate New Yorkers

Nearly 5,000 MTA workers have returned from coronavirus quarantine

New York City police department has lost 29 members to Covid-19

NYC transit workers want preferential shopping treatment like first responders

Experts say it may be time for grocery stores to ban customers from coming inside

 

April 18

Coronavirus kills six NYCHA workers, sickens 260 as pandemic hits public housing

How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America

NY AG James: New Yorkers' Stimulus Checks Will Be Protected From Debt Collectors

Healthcare workers protest for vital protection equipment

 

April 17

Staff Pays Toll for E-ZPass Operator Refusing Telework, Hazard Pay

NYC’s Plan to Protect Medical Staff From Retaliation for Speaking Out

EMS Union: Move Virus Fight Into Neighborhoods Where It's Worst

Job Cuts in Pandemic Come So Fast That Warning Laws Are Gutted

'I'm not ready to die': New 'essential workers' call for protections, hazard pay in coronavirus crisis

Scores of city workers have died on the front lines of the coronavirus fight

Manhattan Building Workers Strike Over Coronavirus Safety Fears

Self-Employed And Gig Workers Face Long Waits For Coronavirus Relief Checks

They Filed for Unemployment Last Month. They Haven’t Seen a Dime.

Bus drivers keep New York City moving during coronavirus pandemic

 

April 16

Cuomo Extends Coronavirus Shutdown Order to May 15

The Head of the Postal Workers Union Says the Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months

More than half of retail and grocery workers can't take paid sick leave

FEMA union urges Trump to use wartime-era law for more protective equipment

The $349 billion lending program for small businesses has run out of funds

Workers have “nowhere to hide” as unemployment permeates the economy

Reopening Could Require Thousands More Public Health Workers

Nurses suspended for refusing to treat coronavirus patients without N95 masks

Correction officers union settles suit with NYC for coronavirus testing sites, masks

Broadway costumers, volunteers sew masks for NYC shelters

Coronavirus small business relief program runs out of money after 2 weeks

One Worker's Experience on the Morgue Overflow Shift

Nurses, doctors take extreme precautions to avoid infecting family members

The Coronavirus Strike Wave Could Shift Power to Workers—for Good

Millions of Essential Workers Are Being Left Out of COVID-19 Workplace Safety Protections, Thanks to OSHA

Local 420 Head Blasts Absence-Note Policy As H+H Intimidation

April 15

NY nurses union to sue state health department, hospitals over equipment shortages

Hundreds of NYC Public Hospital Workers Test Positive for COVID-19

First Amazon warehouse worker dies of coronavirus

Stories From the Front Lines: What's It Like to Be an FDNY Paramedic Amid Coronavirus

Frontline MTA Workers To Get Priority COVID-19 Testing Under New Partnership

Whole Foods staff protest against conditions as coronavirus cases rise

NY teachers use basement 3-D printers to make plastic face shields

Union boss threatens strike against N.J. light rail operator over poor coronavirus response

Trump’s War on VA Workers Is Exposing Them to the Coronavirus

 

April 14

Trump's war against the Postal Service could have another casualty: tens of thousands of military veterans with disabilities

MTA Promises Families of Workers Lost to COVID-19 $500K

I Was Fired Because of the Coronavirus

Thousands of grocery store workers have gotten sick during coronavirus pandemic, union says

 

April 13

‘Just brutal’: NYC Ed Department reveals 50 - from administrators and teachers to facilities and food workers - have died from COVID-19

NYC’s teachers aides hardest hit by coronavirus deaths, new education department figures show

The unsung heroes of the coronavirus pandemic: NYC’s essential workers

Face Coverings Now Mandated for Essential Workers in New York

Food Workers Say C.D.C. Guidelines Put Them at Greater Risk for Infection

Democrats Say Labor Department Stiffing Workers On Unemployment Benefits

How New York’s building trades are adapting to COVID-19

'It's a Time Bomb': 23 Die as Virus Hits Packed Homeless Shelters

NYC Public Hospitals Demand Doctors' Notes from Staffers

 

April 12

This Union’s Members Are Risking Their Lives So Americans Can Still Eat

‘It feels like a war zone’: As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work

Sick doctors, nurses and not enough equipment: NYC health care workers on the fight against the coronavirus

COVID-19 A Big Threat to 9/11 Workers, But Little Tracking or Testing So Far

Transit Workers Risking Lives With Little Protective Gear

 

April 11

Coronavirus kills over 100 NYC civil servants unable to work from home

‘Dreamers’ risk lives on pandemic’s front lines while they await a decision on their own future

Essential workers deserve healthcare and a higher minimum wage

Even in a Pandemic, Workers Can Fight Back

Farmworkers 'Can't Pick Strawberries Over Zoom'

Coronavirus in New York: How the state has been changed by the outbreak

White House rejects bailout for U.S. Postal Service battered by coronavirus

Life and Death in the ‘Hot Zone’

New Yorkers are dying as ambulance response times surge amid coronavirus

 

April 10

Air They Breathe on Job a Factor In High Total of Transit-Worker Deaths

Teachers Union Compiles Own COVID-19 Death Tally Amid City Silence

Nurses and Doctors Speaking Out on Safety Now Risk Their Job

A tale of two New Yorks: pandemic lays bare a city's shocking inequities

50 MTA workers now dead from coronavirus: officials

Here’s What the Relief Packages Give Self-Employed Workers

Overwhelmed hospitals mean overwhelming conditions for medical workers

 

April 9

5 ways Congress can help federal workers on the coronavirus front lines

Jobless Claims Surpass 16 Million; Aid Package Stalls in Senate

NYS Employee Pay Raises Frozen Amid Pandemic

NY Launches New Unemployment Site That Won’t Require Phone Call, 200K NYers Still in Limbo

‘Blood on Their Hands’: Trader Joe’s Workers Are Angry and Terrified

'A Tragedy is Unfoding': Inside New York's Virus Epicenter

MTA to check transit workers’ temperatures as coronavirus spread continues

People are luring Instacart shoppers with big tips -- and then changing them to zero

Unions up in arms over Cuomo pay freeze for essential state workers

 

April 8

Virus Is Twice as Deadly for Black and Latino People Than Whites in N.Y.C.

'It's a racial justice issue': Black Americans are dying in greater numbers from Covid-19

NYC hospitals are allowing coronavirus-positive nurses to work: sources

Hero of the Day: NYC subway cleaner keeps essential workers safe

Transit Union President on Deaths of MTA Workers from Coronavirus

New York art-handling company lays off pro-union workers, while others are paid to stay home during coronavirus pandemic

Walmart Employees Are Worried About Bringing The Coronavirus Back Home To At-Risk Family Members

U.S. Postal Service could see ‘catastrophic’ losses because of coronavirus

NYC transit workers dying from coronavirus at triple the rate of first responders

41 Transit Workers Dead: Crisis Takes Staggering Toll on Subways

Unions raise coronavirus safety concerns over frontline CBP, VA employees

A Brooklyn courthouse was still packed as coronavirus spread. Judges, their staffs and lawyers are paying the price.

 

April 7

NYCHA Employees to Get Masks Even as Workplace Tensions Rise

EMS members brace for COVID-19 peak, Bronx Zoo converts to staging area

One Thing We Can Do to Protect Frontline Workers

Pence Tells U.S. Food Workers ‘Do Your Job’ as They Fall Ill

Workers for Target delivery app Shipt to walk off job Tuesday: "We are undervalued"

Now Is the Best and Worst Time for Workers to Go on Strike

Amazon threatens to fire workers who break social distancing rules

Cuomo establishes First Responders Fund to aid health care workers and first responders

As Coronavirus spread, financial services contractor told warehouse workers they aren't allowed to get sick

EMS Unions: State's Death Plateau From Virus May Be a Mirage

A major grocer is pushing to classify its employees as first responders, giving them priority for testing and protective gear

‘It’s Like a War Zone’: Grocery Store Employees Urge More Protection on the Front Lines

Under Trump the NLRB Has Gone Completely Rogue

NYC cuts 75,000 city-funded summer jobs for youth amid coronavirus pandemic

NYC Summer Jobs Program Scrapped Over Pandemic

 

April 6

‘I don’t have a single cent coming in’: What it’s like to be a nail tech during coronavirus

City bus and subway workers account for all 33 MTA coronavirus deaths

How Gig Workers Are Weathering the Virus Shutdown

Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus

Workers on the Pandemic's Front Lines: Their Stories, in Their Words

How to Save the Postal Service

Most New Yorkers worried about financial fallout from coronavirus: poll

They Cleaned Other People’s Homes. Now They Fear They’re Sick.

EMS Swamped by Calls: 'One Day After Another, No End in Sight'

TWU, ATU join forces to up transit worker protections

 

April 5

No Masks for NYCHA Staffers Working in Tenant Apartments

'I cried on the truck': Fatigued NY workers forge ahead

NYC Public Advocate: Minority NYers Face High COVID-19 Risk

Coronavirus takes heavy toll on NY transit workers

SEE IT: Strangers applaud MTA workers who keep NYC moving during coronavirus crisis

Defending workers is now life-and-death: What essential employees need in the coronavirus crisis

Amazon white-collar employees are fuming over management targeting a fired warehouse worker

Grocery workers are key during the virus. And they’re afraid

New York Utility Workers Live at Job Site During Coronavirus Crisis

Top Democrats Press Treasury to Accelerate Airline Bailout

CARIBBEAT: ‘Warrior Nurse’ reports on difficult front line and personal challenges in New York City’s COVID-19 war

'I'm very, very worried': Laid-off workers struggle with no social safety net

 

April 4

Who Do We Expect to Sacrifice?

‘Code Blue’: A Brooklyn I.C.U. Fights for Each Life in a Coronavirus Surge

A tale of two agencies: NYC transit workers to receive nearly 250,000 N95 masks to protect against coronavirus; correction officers still fighting for PPE

NYC Wine Shop Workers Fired After Raising Coronavirus Concerns

NYC’s ‘booming’ film and TV industry grinds to halt amid coronavirus, workers ‘worried’

My daughter’s non-essential NYC job is forcing her to work in-office with staff

Two Amazon Workers Explain Why They Walked Off the Job for COVID-19 Protections

COMIC: Grocery Workers Are Essential, And Feeling The Strain

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams calls for express supermarket lanes for first responders, with Foodtown already onboard

 

April 3

Front-line workers hope newfound respect leads to better conditions

NYC health workers asked for masks, hospital execs gave them gags

Mental health workers seek protections during COVID-19 crisis

Firefighters Take on Added Medical Duties Despite 200+ Having Virus

Mount Sinai nurses pushing for extra supplies on coronavirus front line

Meet the NYC Restaurant Workers Still Working Throughout the Shutdown

Affordable Housing, Transit Projects Plow on in Virus Pause

Hundreds of NYC firefighters, EMTs out sick as coronavirus cases explode

What Happens if America’s 2.5 Million Farmworkers Get Sick?

 

April 2

“Essential” Workers Are Dying

DEP Workers Told to Return to Office After Colleague's Death

Worried Cleaners Take Front Line Positions in Fight Against Virus

Mnuchin Is Now Trying to Destroy Airline Workers’ Job Protections

‘A tremendous loss’: Brooklyn third grade teacher dies from coronavirus

Leaked Amazon Memo Details Plan to Smear Fired Warehouse Organizer: ‘He’s Not Smart or Articulate’

The importance of low-wage workers during a pandemic

Queens Neighborhoods Housing Service Workers Hardest Hit

Performers are among the most vulnerable victims of our newly shuttered world

Chipotle under pressure in New York over coronavirus sick leave

Time to Deliver Justice to Delivery Workers

 

April 1

The Life and Death of Juan Sanabria, One of New York City’s First Coronavirus Victims

NYC hospitals scramble to control their image as workers share horrors from the inside

NYC medical workers treating coronavirus describe fear, confusion with protective equipment rationed

Tension, Fear Grip U.S. Health Workers With Supplies Running Low

Coronavirus is testing the power of unionized newsrooms

EMS workers pushed to the limit without adequate supplies, dwindling workforce

MTA Employee Virus Hotline Bolstered after Crush of Calls

NYC homeless services workers hit with coronavirus are ‘dropping like flies’ without protective gear

Traffic agent, 33, is NYPD’s latest suspected coronavirus death

Who we need to care for now: Amid the coronavirus crisis, worry about New Yorkers in group homes and emergency medical personnel

Retailers Under Growing Pressure to Let Workers Wear Masks

ER doctor dies in husband’s arms in their NYC apartment six days after showing COVID-19 symptoms

The New Labor Movement

Trader Joe’s Workers Are Terrified Not Enough Is Being Done To Keep Them And Customers Safe

MTA Ridership Has Bottomed, But the Subways Are Anxiously Packed

HOMETOWN HELPERS: Staten Island health care worker Kim Fish says a daily prayer on the front lines of coronavirus treatment

Civil servants seek line of duty benefits for virus deaths

With spring break shortened to only 2 days, union seeks compensation for NYC teachers

 

March 31

Workers Were Always 'Essential'

EMS Face Record Number Of Ambulance Calls While Dealing With Delays, Sick Workers

Civilian Unions: NYPD Outreach On Virus a Model for Other Agencies

Garbage bags and cloth bandannas: union leaders plea for personal protection equipment to fight coronavirus

Low Pay, High Risk: Nursing Home Workers Confront Coronavirus Dilemma

Holden, Local 2507 president call for more N95 masks for EMS workers

Too close for comfort inside NYC’s biggest homeless shelter

MTA's Pandemic Preparations Not Running As Planned, Union Charges

‘We’re on a suicide mission’: Jacobi Hospital nurse charges lack of coronavirus protective gear endangers health care workers’ lives

Mommy's Dead: The Battles of Caridad Santiago

As coronavirus spreads, so do reports of companies mistreating workers

NYC mayor orders investigation into Amazon after it fired worker who led warehouse walkout

NY Attorney General Threatens Amazon with Legal Action After Firing of Worker Who Led Strike Over Coronavirus Precautions

Met Museum Tells Staff It Is Extending Pay Until May 2

Why NYC’s Undocumented Restaurant Workers Are the Forgotten Victims of the Shutdown

 

March 30

America’s underpaid, oft-forgotten EMTs are bearing the brunt of the pandemic

IATSE Launches Mutual Aid Program as Over 90% of Members Have Lost Jobs to Pandemic

Five More MTA Workers Die of Coronavirus Complications

Amazon fires warehouse worker who organized Staten Island protest

Whole Foods Employees Are Staging a Nationwide 'Sick-Out'

Lysoling the Doorbell: Home Health Aides Take No Chances

How to Support Instacart Workers While They're on Strike

Amid surge of coronavirus-sickened police officers, deaths of two members of NYPD announced

Is Your Grocery Delivery Worth a Worker’s Life?

From the front lines: EMS workers face unique challenges amid coronavirus pandemic

NYC’s pregnant EMTs have to show up for work or lose personal time off during coronavirus crisis

Nurses Die, Doctors Fall Sick and Panic Rises on Virus Front Lines

NYC subway track worker, better known as Yonkers pastor, dies of coronavirus

Former top nurse at Jacobi, worried about lack of testing, dies of coronavirus

 

March 29

Transit workers are heroes, too — and we need to get them protected

Bail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die.

Instacart Workers Plan Strike as Coronavirus Makes the Job Riskier

Stressed and Scared: Laid-off Workers Face Uncertain Future

Amazon workers on Staten Island poised to walk out over coronavirus concerns

In a Hungry City on Pause, Grocery Workers Take Stock and Press On

As MTA chief tests positive for coronavirus, transit unions demand speedy tests for frontline workers

HOMETOWN HELPERS: UPS driver in NYC secures thousands of medical masks to protect coworkers and customers from coronavirus

Coronavirus claims life of NYC correction officer, union says

New York healthcare workers protest working conditions

 

March 28

NYC first responders sleeping in cars for fear of infecting families, union says

City’s Freelancers in Dire Straits as Work Dries Up

Coronavirus cases at MTA triple in two days as fear spreads among NYC Transit workers

N.Y.C.’s 911 System Is Overwhelmed. ‘I’m Terrified,’ a Paramedic Says.

Workers say New York City hospital dragged its feet on coronavirus protections as the pandemic spread

The Coronavirus Outbreak Has Workers Who Care For The Elderly "Terrified"

An NYPD Detective And Administrative Assistant Have Died Of The Coronavirus

Parents Work on the Front Lines. Where Do Their Children Go All Day?

What it's like for health care workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic
 

March 27

What grocery store workers need: A union leader on how to help employees stressed by the coronavirus crisis

Dennis Dickson Worked To Clean NYPD Headquarters Of The Coronavirus — Then He Died From It

Union reports 1st NYC mailman to die from coronavirus

Newsonomics: What was once unthinkable is quickly becoming reality in the destruction of local news

Cuomo Calls Off “Non Essential” Construction Statewide

Motorman’s Death in Subway Fire Adds to Transit Worker Fears

New Yorkers #ClapBecauseWeCare to Thank Workers on Coronavirus Frontlines

Everything to Know About How the $2 Trillion Stimulus Helps (and Fails) Restaurants

FDNY says 170 of its members test positive for coronavirus

Postal Workers Say Letter Carriers Are Calling Out Sick

At Two Fashion Resale Warehouses, Workers Fear for Their Safety

Hundreds of journalists are being laid off, right when the public needs them the most

 

March 26

A N.Y. Nurse Dies. Angry Co-Workers Blame a Lack of Protective Gear.

‘Just Keep Up the Faith’: Workers Are Stepping Up to Beat the Coronavirus

List of NYC essential workers who qualify for free child care expanded

City Paramedics Say Need for COVID-19 Protective Gear is Critical

MTA transit conductor, bus operator die of coronavirus in New York City

Virus Loans to Come with Union Neutrality Pledge for Companies

Gig workers with COVID-19 symptoms say it's hard to get sick leave from Uber, Lyft, Instacart

Internet service providers blocked NYC families with unpaid bills from remote learning deal

NYC transit worker dies of coronavirus, first MTA employee to succumb to disease

A record 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits as the coronavirus slams economy

Labor Board Pressured to Resume Union Elections by Mail

 

March 25

NYC’s 911 Overwhelmed With Record Number of Emergency Medical Calls

Mother of hospitalized paramedic calls for more protection for first responders

EMS calls spike amid coronavirus crisis, and FDNY urges people to only call 911 in an emergency

Subway Workers Say They’re Packed Too Tight in Terminal Break Rooms

 

March 24

Municipal Union Leader Discusses Growing Concerns for City Workers Amid Coronavirus 

Unions for 'Must-Show' Staff: We're Vital, Too

Journalism Needs a Stimulus. Here’s What it Should Look Like

 

March 23

NYC school food workers fear for their health as schools continue to churn out meals during coronavirus shutdown

DOE "Enrichment Centers" Open As City Scrambles To Care For Kids Of Emergency Workers

Two NYC Education Dept. employees who shared building with principal who died of coronavirus also hospitalized: sources

Union for New York City's UPS workers pleads for cleaning supplies

 

March 21

Cops and nurses aren’t the only ones New Yorkers need to weather coronavirus: workers who deliver beer and milk, pick up trash also essential

EMS workers expected to keep working after coronavirus exposure

 

March 20

Nail and Hair Salons Are Beginning to Close. How Will This Affect Workers?

Nurses Blast CDC's Call to Substitute Face Masks for Respirators for Virus

NYC Owners, Service Union Agree on Coronavirus Relief

Coronavirus Brings a Surge to News Sites

 

March 19

Not enough NYC municipal workers work from home, says union head

 

March 18

Met Museum Prepares for $100 Million Loss and Closure Till July

Coronavirus economic impact explained: How Broadway’s shutdown is crippling an industry in NYC

 

March 17

Thousands of crossing guards, substitutes worry they won’t be paid during NYC school shutdown

 

Whole Foods staff protest against conditions as coronavirus cases rise