Around 200 unionized workers who make sports equipment for Wilson Sporting Goods, Mizuno, and CCM Hockey at a factory in Yangon, Myanmar, were fired at the end of June 2020 after orders from companies stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thousands of factory garment workers in Bangladesh are laid off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as U.S. and E.U. retailers cancel orders.

From the immense pressure placed on workers to return to low-wage jobs to broken social safety nets that have compounded poverty, food and housing insecurity, and inadequate unemployment benefits, America’s poor and working class have borne the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic. Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States,

As workers organize unions to improve working conditions during the pandemic, employers have engaged in retaliation, including laying offs.

In the wake of Black Lives Matter protests, several school boards voted or are in the process of voting to defund school police forces.

Members of Congress obtained disaster loans for their businesses through the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

The surge of unemployment claims during COVID-19 has created major backlogs that plague several states and prevent people from receiving money.

During the coronavirus pandemic, Seattle City Council members have launched another effort to tax Amazon and other large corporations.

The State of Tennessee is in the midst of a health care crisis, where its residents are struggling with debt, bankruptcies, and a lack of access to health care, while suffering from some of the highest rates in the United States of preventable illnesses. 

Migrant workers share stories of wage theft and retaliation by employers, and how there is little-to-no enforcement of state labor protections.