UE Officers Call on Labor Movement To Organize Worker Fightback in the Face of the COVID-19 Crisis
“Life-and-death circumstances are being imposed on U.S. workplaces and workers are increasingly responding by standing up, fighting back and walking out, but frequently without the support of organized labor,” UE’s three national officers wrote in an open letter in In These Times. “Unions have a choice right now: Hunker down and try to ride out the COVID-19 storm or put our shoulders to the task of assisting workers in their fight to either improve conditions on the job or shut their workplaces down.”