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Vanessa Bain of Menlo Park knows she probably isn t alone in calling the pandemic "the hardest period of protracted, long precarity and uncertainty in my life."
The path forward for essential workers
The pandemic changed everything. What s next for gig workers and contractors?
Gig workers and warehouse workers have become essential in a pandemic-ravaged economy. In California, a law went into effect earlier this year that makes gig workers independent contractors. Meanwhile, Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama are actively seeking to form a union to ensure better protections at the workplace.
At TC Sessions: Justice, I spoke with Gig Workers Collective co-founder and organizer Vanessa Bain, The Congress of Essential Workers founder and former Amazon warehouse worker Christian Smalls and National Council for Occupational Safety and Health Co-Executive Director Jessica E. Martinez about what’s next for gig workers and tech’s contractor workforce, and what battles lie ahead for these essential workers.
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As the one-year mark of the Bay Area s stay-at-home order approaches, local residents who ve been on the front lines of the pandemic reflect on the hardships, perspectives gained and silver linings of the coronavirus shutdown.