India’s campaign to inoculate its population of 1.3 billion began on Saturday with medical workers. The country has reported more than 10.5 million coronavirus cases, the second largest caseload after the United States.
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As inauguration in divided nation nears, Illinois getting ready for anything — and hopefully, nothing
Workers maneuver sheets of plywood into place on Friday as they work to cover the first floor windows at the Illinois State Capitol in preparations for possible protests. | Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP Gov. J.B. Pritzker conceded
Democracy and the labor movement are one and the same
Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, meets with hotel workers in Chicago on March 12, 2018. Our democratic republic is safe so long as people are ready to defend it. Working people always have and always will. Our Constitution says
Israel announces new settler homes, risking Biden’s anger
In this Nov. 16, 2020 file photo, workers take a break before European Union officials visit the construction site for Givat Hamatos settlement in Jerusalem. Israel on Monday, advanced plans to build 800 new settler homes in the occupied West
Kate Middleton Honors Frontline Workers on 39th Birthday
On her 39th birthday, the Duchess of Cambridge takes time to appreciate workers on the frontlines battling the coronavirus pandemic. See Kate’s sweet tribute!
California is desperate, but volunteer health corps dwindles
California desperately needs more medical workers at facilities swamped by coronavirus patients, but almost no help is coming from a volunteer program that Gov. Gavin Newsom created at the start of the pandemic. An army of 95,000 initially raised their
US private payrolls post first decline in 8 months as COVID-19 soars
US private companies shed workers in December for the first time in eight months as out-of-control COVID-19 infections unleashed a fresh wave of business restrictions, setting the tone for what is likely to be a brutal winter for the economy.
Black voters in Georgia rejoice at Warnock’s historic victory.
Here’s what you need to know: Election workers counting ballots in Atlanta on Wednesday. More vote totals were expected to be announced on Wednesday afternoon.Credit…Megan Varner/Getty Images Democrats inched closer to taking control of the Senate on Wednesday, winning one
More than 200 Google workers form a union
More than 200 Google workers have formed a union that aims to press the tech titan to live up to its former motto: “Don’t be evil.” The Alphabet Workers Union, named for Google’s parent company, has so far attracted 226
Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize, Culminating Years of Activism
OAKLAND, Calif. — More than 225 Google engineers and other workers have formed a union, the group revealed on Monday, capping years of growing activism at one of the world’s largest companies and presenting a rare beachhead for labor organizers
US workers file 787,000 new jobless claims as COVID-19 pressures job market
American workers filed 787,000 applications for jobless benefits last week as the coronavirus pandemic has kept up pressure on the labor market. Last week’s jobless claims bring the total reported during the COVID-19 pandemic to about 73 million — equivalent to
E.U.’s Mass Vaccination Campaign Starts, With Nursing Homes as Focus
BERLIN — From nursing homes in France to hospitals in Poland, older Europeans and the workers who care for them rolled up their sleeves on Sunday to receive coronavirus vaccine shots in a campaign to protect more than 450 million
People over 75, essential workers are next in line for COVID vaccine
NEW YORK — An expert committee put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out Sunday to hospitals, a desperately needed
People over 75, essential workers next in line for vaccine
An expert committee put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out Sunday to hospitals, a desperately needed boost as the
2nd COVID-19 vaccine authorized in US preparing to ship out
Workers on Sunday began packaging shipments of the second COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., a desperately needed boost to efforts to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. Employees at a factory in the Memphis area were boxing up the
Who Gets the Vaccine First? Furious Lobbying by Interest Groups
The union for building maintenance workers, 32BJ SEIU, which has 175,000 members nationally, has also been in contact with the state, a spokeswoman said. Con Edison has already received reassurance from state officials that its approximately 4,000 to 5,000 customer-facing,
Protest at Hospital That Left Frontline Workers Off Vaccine List
new video loaded: Protest at Hospital That Left Frontline Workers Off Vaccine List transcript Back bars 0:00/0:19 –0:19 transcript Protest at Hospital That Left Frontline Workers Off Vaccine List Healthcare workers at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif., protested
What People With Allergies Should Know About Covid Vaccines
On Wednesday, two health workers in Alaska experienced reactions as well. One was too mild to be deemed anaphylaxis. But the other, which occurred in a middle-aged woman with no history of allergies, was serious enough to warrant hospitalization, even
Most US workers support workplace COVID-19 vaccine mandates: survey
A majority of American workers say their colleagues should be required to get vaccinated for COVID-19 before they return to their offices, a new survey shows. Some 57 percent of workers expressed support for workplace vaccine mandates in the CNBC/SurveyMonkey
Carrier Plant Is Bustling, but Workers Are Wary as Trump Exits
For the workers fortunate enough to remain employed at Carrier’s Indianapolis factory, which Donald Trump singled out as a symbol of American manufacturing distress in 2016, these should be the best of times. The assembly line is churning out furnaces
As Singapore Ventures Back Out, Migrant Workers Are Kept In
On most days, there are zero new coronavirus cases among migrant workers in Singapore, who bore the brunt of the city-state’s outbreak this year. But as the government prepares for its final phase of reopening this month, those workers won’t
Some Health Care Workers Are Getting the Vaccine. Others Aren’t. Who Decides?
What other workers have asked when they will get it? “Oh, only everyone,” she said. “Most people have prefaced their question with, ‘Of course I don’t think I should be ahead of the Covid I.C.U. staff who have been drinking
Marriott axes more than 800 workers at Times Square hotel
Marriott plans to permanently lay off more than 800 workers at its Times Square hotel as the coronavirus crisis keeps New York City’s hospitality industry in a chokehold. The 852 workers at the New York Marriott Marquis will be axed
The Virus Trains: How Lockdown Chaos Spread Covid-19 Across India
Railroad officials also insist that the trains were the safest way to get migrant workers home. “India has done extraordinarily well in managing the spread of disease compared to some of the materially most advanced countries of the world,” said
Riots at Apple supplier’s India plant cause up to $7 million in damage
Enraged workers reportedly caused millions of dollars in damage at an Apple supplier’s factory in India where they protested poor labor conditions over the weekend. Thousands of contract workers showed up at the iPhone factory run by Taiwan-based manufacturer Wistron
‘Healing is coming’: US health workers start getting vaccine
Health care workers around the country rolled up their sleeves for the first COVID-19 shots Monday as hope that an all-out vaccination effort can defeat the coronavirus smacked up against the heartbreaking reality of 300,000 U.S. deaths. “Relieved,” proclaimed critical
Coronavirus Briefing: Vaccinations Begin in the U.S.
Hope in the darkest hour Today an array of frontline health care workers received the first doses of a mass vaccination campaign that could bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. A nurse from an intensive
UAW agrees to monitor, voting changes after corruption probe
An independent monitor will watch the United Auto Workers’ finances and operations, and members will decide how they pick future leaders under a reform agreement with the US Attorney’s office. The deal was announced Monday in the wake of a
‘Relieved’: US health workers start getting COVID-19 vaccine
The biggest vaccination campaign in U.S. history kicked off Monday as health workers rolled up their sleeves for shots to protect them from COVID-19 and start beating back the pandemic — a day of optimism even as the nation’s death
US set for first COVID-19 shots as shipments begin arriving
Hospital workers begin unloading precious frozen vials of COVID-19 vaccine Monday, with the first vaccinations against a scourge that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans expected later in the day. “It feels like the cavalry is arriving,” Robert C. Garrett, CEO