Essential Workers Deserve More than Platitudes

Essential Workers Deserve More than Platitudes - Grit Daily News

For more than six months, waiters, grocery clerks and other service sector employees—now known as essential workers— have put their own health ...

Essential workers deserve more than a tip for their service

We all owe our essential workers, particularly those who are Black and Brown, a larger debt. We know that they already are more likely to ...

Essential workers deserve more than just our platitudes - Varsity

Bathsheba Lockwood-Brook argues that glorifying people's labour falls short of protecting them, as the mythologisation of essential workers ...

Essential Workers Deserve More Than Praise - Every Texan

While applauding essential workers on social media is nice, essential workers who have kept our state running through the pandemic deserve more ...

Opinion: Essential workers deserve continued, increased support ...

Essential workers include much more than nurses and doctors. Anyone from grocery clerks to delivery people, teachers, city workers and ...

Essential employees deserve more than symbolic gestures | Opinion

One of the biggest takeaways from this pandemic is that our frontline “essential” workers are falling through the “safety net” of programs ...

This May Day, Honor Labor by Compensating It - New York Magazine

Essential workers deserve better, not just from their employers but from the public, too. The next disaster will come, and workers will suffer ...

Viewpoint: Essential workers deserve respect and better pay

It is beyond time we start giving these workers not only the respect they deserve, but the pay to go with it. While many of us work safely from ...

"Essential Workers" not "essential pay" : r/TikTokCringe - Reddit

make up a bulk of the workforce and were deemed "essential workers," but are all paid so low that we can't afford to take time off for ...

Essential health care workers deserve better financial benefits

The health care worker shortage is most dire, as their work is quite literally life and death. Many professionals in this industry are ...

We need improved policies – not platitudes – for front-line workers

Across all labour and occupational sectors, front-line workers and essential service providers have become sacrificial beasts of burden. They ...

SO YOU SAY OUR WORK IS ESSENTIAL

Finally, and most salient to the capability of essential workers to flourish, ... rather than equitably shared among all jobs. Many ... jobs in the labor market ...

When the applause ends: Essential workers deserve to be valued in ...

The coronavirus recession has laid bare how illogically the U.S. labor market values work that matters. In the United States, as elsewhere, ...

Why do we simultaneously demand and degrade essential workers?

I'm talking about folks who worked in food service, those who delivered things across the country and then to our homes/grocery stores, people ...

When Essential Workers Earn Less Than The Jobless - NPR

LaVigna says it's a weird imbalance. "You feel like, you guys [the government] never have money for people that really need it, and all of a ...

SEIU 721 on X: "“COVID-19 hit Los Angeles County hard, and hit ...

COVID-19 hit Los Angeles County hard, and hit frontline county workers among the hardest. The County's essential workers deserve more than empty platitudes ...

Essentializing Essential Workers - Harvard Political Review

As the coronavirus ravages communities around the world, essential workers continue risking their lives to perform the services that sustain ...

Frontline, Essential, and Invisible: The Needs of Low-Wage Workers ...

This study explored the unique experiences of low-wage essential, frontline workers across hospital settings to better understand the needs of these workers and ...

Essential workers don't need our praise. They need our help.

The heroic essential worker has been an important figure in the coronavirus pandemic's ongoing saga. ... To be sure, they deserve every iota of ...

During the Pandemic, Workers Were Told They Were Heroes - Jacobin

At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the American working class faced a paradox: workers were told they were “essential” and touted as ...