Vaccine waiting list registration portal. Vaccines for non-healthcare essential workers will be available through their employer through either onsite vaccination events, off-site clinics, or a voucher system that can be used at pharmacies or vaccine clinics run by the state or its partners.
District of Columbia
Phase 1A: workforce in acute care hospitals, specialty care hospitals, long-term care facilities, intermediate care facilities, EMS, front-line public health, home health aides, outpatient settings, dental settings, and pharmacy settings; residents of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, and longer-term psychiatry inpatients.
Phase 1B Tier 1: DC residents age 65 years and older and DC residents in intermediate care facilities, group homes, or other higher-risk congregate settings; corrections officers; non-healthcare personnel supporting operations of COVID-19 vaccination clinics; individuals experiencing homelessness.
Tuesday April 27, 2021 at 12 PM EST called
How to Apply for PR.
The purpose of the webinar is to provide an overview to essential workers and international graduates
currently residing in Canada of the six new permanent residence programs that are launching on May 6. The pathways are available to some 90,000 candidates. They are meant to help even more essential workers and international graduates residing in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic remain here permanently so they can make lasting economic and social contributions to Canada’s prosperity.
What will I learn?
The commitment to reach Canada’s ambitious immigration targets is clear. Canada is making it easier for essential workers and international graduates to fast-track their status to permanent residence. In this webinar, you will learn what you need to do to benefit from these new streams.
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Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Staten Island have started a union drive.
This follows a failed union drive at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
The Bessemer drive was tied to an existing union the Staten Island workers want an independent union.
Amazon has another union fight on its hands.
A group of workers at the tech giant s warehouse in Staten Island, New York, announced Monday they were starting a union movement. It comes after a failed union vote at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.
The Staten Island group calls itself the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). It is working with The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a labor-activism group founded by former Amazon worker Chris Smalls.
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Workers at an Amazon facility in New York are looking to unionize after a historic union vote at a warehouse in Alabama was defeated.
Workers hoping to establish the Amazon Labor Union announced a unionization drive for a Staten Island facility on Monday, the same day that the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union filed election objections against the retail giant contesting its resounding defeat. The ALU is working with the Congress of Essential Workers, a labor activist group founded by a former Amazon employee,
Business Insiderreported.
“It’s time. We re picking a fight with Amazon in Staten Island. Workers have had enough of the company s abusive and exploitative behavior,” the ALU said on Twitter. “We need all the support and solidarity we can get. Stand by for more info!”