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The last time the nation faced war debts Franklin Roosevelt didn't hesitate to raise taxes and show up Republicans who stood in the way of fiscal responsibility, argues Sam Pizzigati.
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When Amazon opened its second fulfillment center in the Baltimore region, in 2018, most anyone driving to it from the city arrived via Dundalk Avenue, which took them past a yellow brick building that was constructed in 1952 to house Local 2609 and 2610 of the United Steelworkers and an adjacent building that opened after Local 2610 moved into its own space.
By then, the buildings were mostly vacant, because the steel mill whose workers the union had represented had closed, in 2012, after a long, steady decline. The Bethlehem Steel works were once the largest in the world, an industrial sprawl on the Sparrows Point peninsula that employed some 30,000 people, several thousand of whom lived in an adjoining company town. The work had been grueling and frequently treacherous since the mill’s founding, in the 1890s: “Always More Production” was the slogan of Eugene Grace, Bethlehem
He said he has experienced long periods of ill-health since catching the virus.
“It’s turned my life upside down. I dare any member of the public, or the Cabinet or Nphet or NIAC to go into a school, follow a secondary teacher around for one day.
“I teach 165 teenagers every single day. If you were inside in a classroom with 25 or 30 big 18-years-old, you’d be calling for vaccination too. The consequences here are too great for people.”
He said there are around 37,000 secondary school teachers practicing in Ireland.
“If you’re talking about vaccinating 250,000 a week, how long would it take to vaccinate secondary school teachers?” he asked.