Last week. That means 38. 9 Million People have been thrown on to the unemployment lines in the last eight weeks. 38. 64 million to be precise. The only bright spot is the weekly claims have consistently come down. That implies that the layoff trend has already hit bottom. Heres the markets reaction to all of this. The dow at the moment is on the down side but not much by. Youre looking at 60 points lower. Youre looking at the nasdaq down about 16. Small losses across the board. Helping the market, astrazeneca, working with Oxford University, they have announced progress on a vaccine. They will do phase three trials with 30,000 american patients in july. If it works, they say they could deliver 300 million doses by the early fall. Then weve got three stories about open up and open up now. 600 doctors delivered a letter to the president outlining the Severe Health costs of the lockdown. They call it a mass casualty incident. Open up, they say. The front page of the New York Post blares
Pittsburgh sanitation workers thats right pittsburgh once had sanitation workers in 50 restaurants across florida chicago arbys employees dallas postal workers carlsbad nurses san diego transit workers crack dealers in cleveland and black market baby baby salesmen in black sea the workers are fighting back thats just a small portion of the list of workers who have gone on strike or halted work in order to have their demands met over the past 2 months we have learned something we have learned that the the lowest paid workers in a company are often the most essential even if they arent the most celebrated is kind of like at a wedding the bridesmaids in the groomsmen get all kinds of attention all the pomp and circumstance but they arent the most essential they arent the essential of all the guys cooking up the pork chops and then delivering them to your tables are the truly essential workers without them the wedding gas would begin killing and eating the slowest and weakest amongst them
Vacant remedial hacks on your Corporate News shows make sure to avoid reporting on the growing worker movements you know the jake tappers anderson coopers blender symbol its yours and understand coopers and that one woman too but dont go too hard on these hacks. For they not know not what they do they have so much plastic pumped into their cheekbones that it causes their brains to congeal into a new good substance which mixes well with Peanut Butter all of this recipe so even though they wont report on it according to payday report dot com which tracks strikes across the country so far weve identified over 175 wildcat strikes that happened just since the beginning of march thats right Los Angeles Mcdonalds employees San Francisco costco workers tracy california amazon employees pittsburgh sanitation workers thats right pittsburgh once had sanitation workers in 50 restaurants across florida chicago arbys employees dallas postal workers carlsbad nurses san diego transit workers crack dea
On the nations food supply and Meat Processing industry. On why, dr. James hamlin some people who contract coronavirus get sicker than others. Oft this, the last day april, jay powell says he expects an unprecedented drop in Economic Activity over the next few months after it was reported yesterday that the u. S. Economy shrank at a 4. 8 pace in the First Quarter and economists are decked in additional 3. 5 Million People filed for Unemployment Insurance last week. The Labor Department will release those numbers officially later on this morning, which brings us to the question in the first hour, how has your financial situation been since the pandemic . Perhaps you have saved money or asked for financial help. We want to get a take on how you have been doing financially over the last few weeks. 202 7488000 if you are better off. 202 7488001 if you are worse off. If it stayed the same, 202 7488002. You can text us at 202 7488003. You can also post to our twitter feed and Facebook Page.
Little different than other hazards and that the focus of osha is to figure out how to make sure the workplace is safe in the most effective way to do that is to have regulations and a standard where employers must protect workers. Osha has had standards for that for people who work on groups or people who dig trenches or people who are exposed to benzene or other carcinogens or even bloodborne pathogens like ebola or hiv aids. Not done in this administration is issue a standard to say employers must protect workers. They have issued some guidance and issued some suggestions. They have not said employers shall do certain things. That one of the industries has come into focus is food plant workers and what they face. The president is using the federal production act when it comes to meet plat meatpacking plants. What should be the requirement for those workers when they go to work and what should be provided for them . Guest every country knows the primary way that we protect all of us