In march much of america went on lockdown the code 19 pandemic was searching the number of dead from the virus growing exponentially. Only workers deemed essential were asked to report to work. Over the last several months its all for them to open their lives to us through video diaries and interviews. Today is going to be a busy day for me i picked up quite a few shops a mother who shops for people who dont want to risk going to the store theres only so much you can do whenever youre not aisle thats only like 4 feet across and scared for sure it sucks because were not really getting what we need from shit my parents ask me all the time why do you do it because i dont have a choice i have to i still have to pay. To solve any empty well unless something more side working got only one job done 1. 41. I call bill and i like it its 689. 00 being out here being introduced to option b. That i can will be less 60 or i can be. Alicia a father who drives her to bring left in an empty city trying to pay the bills to start a 16 hour shift. This virus is destroying peoples lives. To get some of. This virus when it hits its really something were never seen before. Feeling a little bit dont want to go to work. But i want to go to work we have to get a 1st responder attempting to save lives fighting a novel virus that could kill him too. There was a positive corona virus case at amazon we were demanding that amazon shut down for 2 weeks and pay us all. Is near attacking us and having a complete disregard for our lives and that means we need to defend ourselves and we need to do everything in our power to change this system completely and an amazon worker whos fed up with corporate power. We want to inform you that last night we learned of a case of a contractor of ormoc. If i could be individuals like mark. If i could been undergoing here. And were. Starting in late march workers at an amazon facility in chicago held a series of walkouts after hearing of coworkers testing positive for covert 19. They were demanding the company shut down their warehouse until they could guarantee it was sanitized and safe for them to return we just got another come on the case why are they so resisting the claim is the only to make you think weve all learned. We have people. We have people that love. We dont want to get anybody this job 7 is not lucky if we run this place to. Say oh dont listen to any of 2 our people wrong. Well just be above that. Place. Man. Thats all right thank. You but you know its really good to not want to know they were not there at the faultlines amazon site quote our top concern is ensuring the health and safety of our employees if youre not sorry youll come on a night shift here. Which so many sheltering at home and shopping online workers like christian were busier than ever the money that is more valuable that are out there so greedy you know you. Often are not us in our help us and our safety nothing. Amazon would later and up 26 percent over this time last year and their stock value hit an all time high most of the stocks are seen as nonessential goods you know theres amazons being opened. Because its an essential life some special business. Should only be shipping essential goods. In the company when on her inspiration bringing going to 175000 new people in mostly warehouse and delivery. Just like solidarity of our neighbors our community. Even scab you know rat showed up was trying to bring her. Im exposed to. A lot on the ship shopper i am in the Grocery Store every morning at 8 am and i dont leave until around 4 pm i hustle hard. Business was booming for Shopping Services too like insta car and shipped. My husband is a mechanic he works for a ford dealership their commission hes making about half of his normal pay luckily i havent been able to make up the difference even as an employment in the us who nearly 15 percent in april these companies were bringing on thousands of new workers each day it is totally up to us to take your clubs are expensive theyre like 10. 00 a box a box in the last 3 days so actually im going to pan over here to mine so i have my snacks and everything for the day i have a box of dogs over here my clorox wipes that im running low on but all of that down there is just. I have this mask that a friend of mine made for me. This one half as i think its like 6 layers. In order to help protect me so i get it and try to get this done quickly today wish me luck. To. Ringback them. I have been a stay at home mom since before my daughter was born and so the 1st few days of shifting was so hard on me. This is where it gets really hard for me to talk about because it sucks. When i get home in order to protect my family the best i can i dont want my daughter hurt me when i come in the door. She would run up to me and want to give me a hug and all i could do is no stop stop dont touch me ive got to go take a shower of germs on me what really sucks is that i could be doing that and still be caring cohabit because. I have in the store every single day. You know so listen are you good with your numbers can we have any. I nor i have a commodity to pay the bills when you miss the most forceful. Recess he said has unfortunately lost. 3 to 4 hours i didnt even got a single job im missing school. Missing school. Like staying at all let the only thing i can try to pay my balance to come out and work if i come out and vote and theres no work. I dont know what to do and believe dont. As my life ali tries for goober in lived in philadelphia he and other driver saw work try up overnight stay at home waters went into effect. Also have to make payments. For the least elisas guard and as an independent contractor like so many in the cook economy they tell themselves with no safety net and still needing to pay high overhead cost. And i have not just ignored by news about any of them sold. Us so saying. As you can see that is slow to leave no one out so all that i was sitting at home getting calls home phone and their asking me different postulates what they should do more so would a board be you a but not me unemployment assistance all of them are waiting when it will come and we daily. So finally i got the job i got the job for 1. 5 thing it would take me about 10 minutes. The job price the minimum biases 3. 80 what i would get. After driving for so long as your sentence is super duper quiet i was not. See all those blogs and so i would just close. The can sign the off of it post people dont want to hear it and log on to another leslie and hope that this one more good comes on. You know im in for another 16 i dont know whats expected things are. Crazy. People are tired. By april the us was the epicenter of the pandemic and new york had the most dust of any state by far you have wonderful mts america but theyre also young and inexperienced when i think about that because this is going to weigh on them. To see this much death. I might so womans house. This womans husband was to take care of his mom. Passed away now the mother passed away you know for 5 years later. Of course shes seen them freeze all covered. In this house where 2 people died. The mother and son. In about 2 months the number of deaths in new york was surpassed 30000. Hospitals or more overflowing with patients and bodies to be a paramedic this some of the most amazing people into paramedics you know the be one you have to have some type of reservoir who theres something down there that. Youre able to dip into that keeps you hopeful. With this pandemic that reza force empty. You know your messages from people who say theyre drinking too much now when they go home or they cant sleep they have nightmares. And one just weekend tell me it was a good mark on themselves im sure theres others. It was a tough tour. And after the tour just kind of sit on the beach and barely it through its. You know we get paid 35000. 00 less than 500. 00 isnt tops. E. M. s over the last 4 years as lost 60 percent of its workforce been leaving because theyre not making any money here and the benefits and you need people with experience in regular times to manage this stuff. A lot of the m. S. Members a struggle with their we are trying to you know fight this enemy that you know roods assist with losing so much against and then we. Cant even pay the rent. In a room any place where. Them is on to not shut down theyre worried about making money theyre worried about moving the packages. As the weeks went on the Company Began texting christian of his coworkers to notify them of the latest kovi cases in their warehouse. Despite additional Safety Measures that amazon added like temperature checks thorough cleaning and protective equipment the techs kept coming doesnt feel great to go in but you know many of my coworkers are also in this same situation and so you know we need to go in here and and we need to fight and so here i am. Thats where. We have bad news today actually one of our coworkers that is a part of our organizing committee gentrys she just got diagnosed positive with cold the 19. This will we were trying to prevent now she has it speaks very angry as far as weve been told we have for now for come from cases but we know there is more we know that amazon isnt talking as of i rethink this completely. And except of varying and its also its also kind of scary you know. According to news reports there have been 8 known deaths of amazon employees in the u. S. From cope with 19. Amazon to not give us an interview but in a statement they told us theyve spent more than 800000000. 00 in the 1st half of the year coping 1000. 00 related Safety Measures. These attacks point just being sent to workers in chicago god. Forbid in their own free will be taken to their protest only happening outside of amazon and that the robot i am at bankers across the country were demanding more this is the time that we need to make changes this is the time that we need to go organize. This week along the route instead of grounds. I have took the day off yesterday to try to help my daughter wasnt home were trying to just get a little bit a one on one time with her. Shes really missing me being at home with her was a day of like normal for us which was nice. Morning everyone so so this morning i woke up to the stimulus check in my bank account which makes me feel really good it just went straight into our savings account because i dont have Health Insurance and im putting myself at risk every single day it is 740 you in the morning like ali ashley is also an independent contractor not an employee my theory for her contractors can help Save Companies money because they are required to pay a minimum wage overtime offer Health Insurance sick leave family leave for compensation if someone gets injured on the job. Im warners. Nonemployees also dont have the legal right to form a union in the co shape for better. Contract so if they dont like the terms the companies can say theyre free to go. I still do not have tracking on my protective equipment theres still no i and for many cars or pain so i can at least pay for my own equipment for not getting what we need or were asking for and were not really asking for a lot. On april 7th should workers stayed at home in protest asking for hazard pay 5. 00 for water and Company Provided protective equipment also known as p. P. D. For every shopper. And the email that we were going to get. A provider. Theyre providing us boxes and a 6 hour Hand Sanitizer if i didnt have to do this for the money that im getting paid to do it i wouldnt be doing it. Just because of the risk that is going into it. Has been and so i hope and thats what going to do i would rather help my family financially and go through my day feeling unappreciated and underpaid then to lose everything that my husband has worked so hard for for our family. To finally received. Yesterday in late april ashley told us she got one box of gloves and 2 small bottles a Hand Sanitizer from shift in the. Small bonus but so far theres no hazard pay this is what were getting shipped to condor requests for an interview. Hard. Shift is a same day service. Heart grow. All these Different Services where somebody is working for a company and providing a special service is a Temple Service by the way. Chances are theyre getting paid less than minimum wage the whole point of a gig service is that the company can make x. Amount of dollars whenever they only have to pay their employees. Because the tip of. The loan. For good workers like ashley and ali some relief came with the passage of a law in late march called the cares act it allowed contractors to apply for unemployment insurance. Benefits they would normally be excluded from only was able to apply for this at the end of april im here about the pennsylvania unemployment it is. 45. 00 a ruby more so drivers have to make the clique argument. So with this 845. 00 im getting that we must need 500. 00 just to pay for our cars then we left with 300. 00 from this b u n money. Question is is that enough to pay more goods bills and food and clothes both and but no its not enough. To push in this critical we dont know what will happen in future. Keep our fingers schools. And i just finished another 16 hour shift. And. It was busy another busy day. Unfortunately this morning i got news that late last night when the e m ts in the bronx who has about a year and a half on a job another young kid dealing with an unprecedented amount of people dying in the streets killed himself. And his own life and. Found his body and western queens in the medics who found him in the street transformed to bellevue but there was nothing they can do. The last few months you know a lot of trouble coping with what hes seeing with coal but. Its probably not going to be the last theres going to be more. Sleep well and more. Work. To sit on the edge of the bed now a few minutes trying to get myself motivated. Feeling. Mayors talking about leonores. Essential health care workers. Urgent sure could use such a term. As president is. Talking about only 100000 people. And the number keeps going up. Miracles was be the best ravenswood keep in tolls and far from it. Everybody dropped well. By june more than 100000 people had died from the krona virus in the u. S. And one in 4 American Workers had filed for unemployment. More than 40000000 people. Whats of young. Made it june 2020 its the Halfway Point of this new year of the sub 3rd decade of the new millennium could hear helicopters. All day long to find no. Protests are going to happen not too far. Just as county cases were starting to slow hundreds of thousands of americans lost their homes and flooded the streets in a wave of civic actions demanding an end to Police Violence and justice for george floyd one of the latest unarmed black men to be killed by police. And were still dealing with coded. The counting of coronavirus thats revealed that like the police it too was disproportionately killing black people. This moment also revealed that essential workers are disproportionately people of color and the lowest paid weve now had. At least 10. Cases. One management has notified us about. The time the pandemic and we know that the country will be different. But we dont know is how. In june amazon has decided to take away or to dollar hazard they have deemed we no longer need. Because now they want everything to return to normal you know this is making a lot of my coworkers angry and its making a lot of folks. Usually dont get angry you know i all. I have officially been shipping for about a half 3 weeks that. I want to say 2 or 3 weeks of the pandemic tips were really good but then as the years started to settle and people were asking her to get out then started going down im getting paid on some of my shops only 7. 00 and the shop took me an hour half so i got paid 7. 00 which is not even minimum wage for an hours worth of work it just became not worth it anymore. The walkout in my opinion was successful and to 8 weeks in fact were not going to get all our demands at one time and still 2 all those things happen i wont go back unless i have to pull my hand because i will not be taken advantage of and i will not be treated like an disposable i will not work for pains and die as a good book i have realized that. We are one of the big part of this economy but we didnt have any of it were protection our biggest fight will be against us all these Big Companies to make sure we get our rights only no but for future. Protests need to happen to me to be reform maybe needs to be all torn down so that we can start over again because the system we have is being. Called would happen people can go one paycheck. One paycheck thats a system thats fairly narrow doesnt have to look at something in there and do it you know where its when we won as a country to be like chip in this. Religious belief that we on the to play our part in making this world a better place to live in our mass movements make a change right now theyre getting out into the streets theyre organizing marches thats the basis of how it is that were going to create change in the society. No joke. There is. Methamphetamines from man ma a flooding into countries across asia. 101 east asks why all pharmacies caught same to stop the meth. 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