Vietnamese workers at Chinese factory in Serbia cry for help
Vietnamese workers helping construct the first Chinese car tire factory in Europe say they're shivering in barracks without heat, going hungry and stuck in a plainland in Serbia because their passports have been taken by their Chinese employer.
Union says meatpacking workers should be vaccinated sooner
But in most states, meatpacking workers are still waiting for their turn to be vaccinated and are ranked behind health care workers, residents of long-term care centers and people aged 65 and older. Marc Perrone, UCFW president, argues that meatpacking workers, grocery store employees and other essential workers should be vaccinated ahead of older people who donโt have other health conditions. In a recent union survey that also included grocery and other food production workers, 70% of respondents said they want to be vaccinated. The UFCW, which represents roughly 80% of the nationโs beef and pork workers and 33% of its poultry workers, estimates that at least 21,900 meatpacking workers have been infected or exposed, and 132 have died of COVID-19. โMeatpacking workers like me are still facing risks every day.โ___Associated Press writer Stephen Groves in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, contributed to this report.
Older workers face higher unemployment amid virus pandemic
In every recession since the 1970s, older workers had persistently lower unemployment rates than midcareer workers โ partly because of seniority benefits. But in the current recession, older workers experienced higher unemployment rates than midcareer workers in each month since the onset of the pandemic. The older workersโ unemployment rates from April through September were 1.1 percentage points higher than mid-career workers โ at 9.7% versus 8.6%. โThe higher rate of unemployment for older workers might be because this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for employers to shed older workers and not fear investigation by the labor department," Ghilarducci said. The researchers who conducted the new study recommended that Congress increase and extend unemployment benefits for older workers, discourage withdrawals from retirement accounts, lower Medicare eligibility to 50 and create a federal Older Workers Bureau to promote the welfare of older workers.
Thanking medical workers with healthy meals
Thanking medical workers with healthy mealsPublished: April 27, 2020, 9:13 amThe owners of Lean Impact Nutrition are teaming up with the Jacksonville Automobile Dealers Association to expand their mission in helping others. They are repaying medical workers for their sacrifices by delivering meals to local hospitals.