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Trump administration says employers don’t have to record coronavirus cases among workers
Apr 18, 2020 03:56US President Donald Trump’s Labor Department has quietly issued guidance informing most employers in the United States that they will not be required to record and report coronavirus cases among their workers because doing so would supposedly constitute an excessive burden on companies.
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How much impact is the current lockdown really having on our environment?
Apr 18, 2020 03:46There has been much talk in the media about the potential climate impact of the coronavirus-related shutdown. Europe has come to a virtual standstill, with the majority of countries in some kind of lockdown. Many assume that this is good for the environment.
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Children struggling to survive India's lockdown
Apr 18, 2020 03:41With 472 million children, India has the largest child population in the world and campaigners say the coronavirus lockdown has impacted around 40 million children from poor families.
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Africa does not need saving during this pandemic
Apr 18, 2020 03:38For bigots who operate under the appalling assumption that black, brown, and other non-white bodies are easily expendable during times of crisis, COVID-19 presents the perfect storm. Yet, instead of expending energy on denouncing the doctors' asinine comments, as so many have already done, we should be reflecting on what Africa and other regions of the so-called Global South have to teach the world in this collective moment of reckoning.
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Spreading the virus of occupation: Spitting as a weapon in the hand of colonial Zionist regime
Apr 17, 2020 14:24Now that we know that the deadly coronavirus can be transmitted through saliva droplets, the Zionist regime troops and illegal Jewish settlers are working extra hard to spit at as many Palestinians, their cars, doorknobs, and so on, as possible. If this sounds to you too surreal and repugnant, then you might not be as familiar with the particular breed of Israeli colonialism as you may think you are.
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‘We’re going down, down, down, down, down’
Apr 17, 2020 14:15The federal government of the United States is struggling to deliver financial aid to faltering employers — and workers are suffering the consequences. Roughly 10 percent of American workers filed for unemployment benefits in the past three weeks, a wave of job losses that has no precedent in modern American history. Millions more are struggling to submit unemployment claims to overwhelmed state agencies. And still more face the loss of their jobs in the coming weeks.
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US auto union official fired for warning fellow workers about COVID-19
Apr 17, 2020 14:12Travis Watkins, chair of an Auto Workers (UAW) bargaining unit in Wyoming, Michigan in the US was fired March 18 for warning his colleagues about the coronavirus pandemic.
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Hopes high in Islamic Iran of triumph of right over might
Apr 17, 2020 14:10The world seems to be passing through grim times. The fear of the Coronavirus pandemic which is sweeping across the globe with increasing number of fatalities every passing day has emptied all public places, whether religious or temporal, of their usual gatherings. Yet, more than ever, mankind is yearning for deliverance from the crises and injustice, which cannot be achieved except for a Godsend spiritually powerful Messiah.
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Coronavirus fears terrify and impoverish migrants in West Asia
Apr 17, 2020 14:04Advocates for workers say measures the Persian Gulf’s Arab governments have announced to shore up their economies and slow the coronavirus’s spread do not do enough to protect laborers. King Salman of Saudi Arabia announced last month that he would cover the treatment of anyone suffering from COVID-19 in the kingdom, including foreigners. But a $2.4-billion aid package that will partially cover the salaries of private sector workers applies only to Saudi citizens.
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Millions filed for US unemployment - many are still waiting for the cash
Apr 16, 2020 14:25A shocking 16.8 million people filed for US unemployment benefits in the last three weeks as the US shut down to stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, overwhelming state labour departments and creating a large backlog of pending applications. The United States has not experienced this magnitude of layoffs and economic contraction since the Great Depression, many experts say, and recovery is unlikely to be swift.