May 22, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Meatpacking Safety, a Gig Worker Collective, and Biodiversity
Photo credit:
US Fish and Wildlife Service, Creative Commons. Juvenile Mariana fruit bat.
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)