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Workers Making COVID Test Kits Exposed to COVID


Workers Making COVID Test Kits Exposed to COVID
At Access Bio in New Jersey, mostly Latina immigrant temp workers lacking protections on the job face hazardous conditions.
Illustration by Jandos Rothstein
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. – Late in the afternoon of February 19, more than 50 temporary workers disembarked from 15-passenger vans, bearing signage like “The Beginning Transportation LLC” and “Eagle Cleaning Services.” Clad in heavy layers of clothing, the workers were about to begin their second shift at the Access Bio plant. The facility specializes in producing test kits for COVID-19, malaria, and dengue fever, part of a global supply chain that includes the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, according to the company’s website. ....

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Long Overdue COVID Worker Protections Would Still Save Hundreds of Lives - Union of Concerned Scientists


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Senior Analyst, Food Systems and Health | January 15, 2021, 11:57 am EDT
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When President-elect Biden takes office next week, his fledgling team must begin to right a mountain of wrongs as the pandemic continues to rage. The previous administration’s nearly endless list of failures and sabotage has brought about many injustices, and among them is the dire situation of workers in the nation’s meat and poultry industries. These essential workers have faced life-threatening conditions, with few or no safeguards, for the duration of the COVID crisis.
The COVID relief proposal released yesterday by the president-elect would be a good start. In addition to expanding paid sick and family medical leave and emergency paid leave, the proposal calls for a new COVID-19 Protection Standard (a ....

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Pressure to Work Faster, Lack of Safety Claim Lives at FedEx Packing Units


Pressure to Work Faster, Lack of Safety Claim Lives at FedEx Packing Units
Despite the shipping giant claiming to have adequate measures in place to ensure workers safety, the situation on the ground is starkly different posing risk to the lives of those who labour at FedEx s World Hub in Memphis, one of its largest units in the world.
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Memphis: Fannie Stanberry had been on the job for two months as a package handler at FedEx Express’ massive World Hub when, toward the end of her overnight shift, packages started to fall from a huge shipping container that rolled past her. ....

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FedEx Memphis workers: We felt we had to prioritize speed over safety


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Fannie Stanberry had been on the job for two months as a package handler at FedEx Express’ massive World Hub when, toward the end of her overnight shift, packages started to fall from a huge shipping container that rolled past her.
As Stanberry, then 61, bent to pick up the packages, she fell and became trapped between the catwalk she’d been standing on and the wheeled platform carrying the shipping container, also known as a dolly. “I thought I was a goner,” Stanberry said. She broke eight ribs and her left arm and lacerated her liver, she said. “I had to learn how to walk over again.” ....

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FedEx Prioritizes Packages Over Employee Safety, Workers and Experts Say


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. Fannie Stanberry had been on the job for two months as a package handler at FedEx Express’ massive World Hub when, toward the end of her overnight shift, packages started to fall from a huge shipping container that rolled past her.
As Stanberry, then 61, bent to pick up the packages, she fell and became trapped between the catwalk she’d been standing on and the wheeled platform carrying the shipping container, also known as a dolly. “I thought I was a goner,” Stanberry said. She broke eight ribs and her left arm and lacerated her liver, she said. “I had to learn how to walk over again.” ....

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