The Best of the Week’s News

• These 11 women organize nationwide strikes, but they’ve never met. (Next City)
   
• The president of the Utility Workers of America says his members are terrified of catching COVID-19 on the job and asks OSHA for safety standards. (EE News)
   
• Meatpacking plants ignore OSHA’s safety recommendations…because they can. (WCNC)
   
• Coronavirus is killing the middle class. (New Yorker)
   
• Flight: the antiviral super-power of bats. (Phys.Org) 

• “ ‘Essential worker’ just means you’re on the death track,” a slaughterhouse worker who caught coronavirus speaks out. [USA Today] 
   
• The “Tiger King” park reopens to huge crowds, raising concerns that cubs are being exposed to COVID-19, which tigers can catch. [National Geographic] 
   
• How to talk about racial disparities in COVID-19 without reinforcing racism.  [New England Journal of Medicine] 
   
• A new federal investigation has found that Indiana officials improperly exonerated Amazon after a worker was crushed by a forklift. [Reveal]
   
• Hillman’s own Jelani Cobb on why Stacey Abrams would like to be Vice-President. [New Yorker]
   
• The Supreme Court is making it easier for police officers to kill people and get away with it. [Reuters] 

The Best of the Week’s News

• The inside scoop on Trump’s crackpot plan to flood the nation will millions of dosesof hydroxychloroquine, an unproven treatment for Covid-19 that seems to kill patients. (Vanity Fair, AP)
   
• 21% of all cruise ships had at least one case of coronavirus, and 65 passengers died, according to a new analysis. (Miami Herald)
   
• NewsGuild’s Nastaran Mohit: Organizing in a pandemic (Teen Vogue)
   
• Hillman board member Danny Glover, the son of two union postal workers, warns that black families would be hardest-hit by the privatization of the Post Office. (USA Today)
   
• From farm workers to call center reps–interviews with dozens of frontline workers (Dissent)

The Best of the Week’s News: 

• The first U.S. ER doctor to die of Covid-19 was a champion of the disenfranchised.
   
• What it’s like to work at a landfill during a pandemic.
   
• The worst people in the world are luring Instacart delivery workers with huge tips and then yanking the tips back when the groceries arrive. 
   
• Unicor, the federal prison labor program, kept many inmate workers on the job without PPE well into March and still has some sewing masks. 
   
• The Covid Crash caused cutbacks at over 1000 media outlets and a group of journalists created The Furlough Fund to support each other.