Help keep Salon independent

Topic: Essential Workers

Overworked health care workers wearing protective face masks very sad sitting on the stairs (Getty Images/Juanmonino)

Are we sacrificing health care workers?

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Jose Ortiz receives a one-shot dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic geared toward agriculture workers organized by the immigrant advocacy group TODEC on April 5, 2021, in Riverside, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Justice for immigrant workers is crucial

Marielena Hincapié
Workers and organizers are pushing for what would be one of the biggest victories for labor in the United States over the past few decades if successful in the first Amazon wharehouse union election in Bessemer, Alabama, where worker's ballots must reach the regional office of the National Labor Relations Board by March 29 to be counted. | Demonstrators mourn for the deaths of victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, New York, New York, 1911. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Bob Hennelly
A view of the Capitol's Rotunda is seen reflected in an ambulance on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

What we owe the COVID fallen

Bob Hennelly - InsiderNJ
Advertisement:
The Lucira COVID-19 All-In-One Test Kit (Photo illustration by Salon/Lucira Health/Getty Images)

Why employers find it hard to COVID test

Hannah Norman - KFF Health News
Migrant workers harvesting sweet potatoes in Mechanicsville, Va. (USDA/Civil Eats)

Why does essential work pay so little?

Rebecca Gordon - TomDispatch.com
Medical workers walk outside a special coronavirus area at Maimonides Medical Center on May 26, 2020 in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

I'm your doctor. Hear me on COVID

Chaya Bhuvaneswar
A store associate distributes hand sanitizer to customers as they enter the Trader Joe's store (Cliff Hawkins/Getty Images)

TJs workers fear for their safety, jobs

Mary Steffenhagen
Advertisement:
University of Texas clock tower (Getty Images)

COVID outbreak hits University of Texas

Roger Sollenberger
Protestors try to enter the Michigan House of Representative chamber and are being kept out by the Michigan State Police (EFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

What do the COVID protesters want?

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Advertisement: