BY NAOMI CRAINE
MAYWOOD, Ill. “These companies use the pandemic as an excuse” to go after workers’ rights and conditions, truck driver Shishonie Perry told Socialist Workers Party member Leroy Watson and this worker-correspondent when we knocked on his door in this Chicago suburb Dec. 6. Perry owns his rig and works for a company that delivers containers for a major grocery chain.
Militant/George Chalmers“Everything in this country is about money,” said apprentice electrician Joshua Liska as he got Militant subscription from Alyson Kennedy in Ennis, Texas, Dec. 2. “We have to change things.”
In June the company tried to cut the pay rates for both independent truckers and those it hires directly.