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As wildfires, drought, floods and scorching heat disrupt the supply chain, workers are bearing the brunt, writes Caitlyn Clark.
By Caitlyn Clark
Labor Notes
On June 29, the air quality in Detroit was among the worst in the world.
“Outside it smelled like burnt plastic, almost like trash,”
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Washington postal workers push for vaccine after outbreak in Kent facility
The Kent facility had 34 of its 160 workers test positive for COVID-19 over the last two weeks, with “an additional number off work in quarantine status,” according to a notice from the local union. Across the entire Seattle postal district, 242 total USPS workers have tested positive for the virus over that same period.
That has local union representative David Yao calling on the Washington State Department of Health to move postal workers up into a higher tier for vaccinations.
“A lot of postal workers are older but they haven’t gotten vaccinations, and for some reason, postal workers are not classified with grocery workers and transit workers as frontline essential workers,” Yao told KIRO Radio.