Workers

The EFF's Floyd Shivambu says workers affected by the Clicks shutdown are "unfortunate collateral".He claims the workers will benefit from their action in the long run.The party plans to protest for the entire week until their demands are met.EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu says Clicks workers are "unfortunate collateral" in the party's protest action against…

Deputy Pubic Protector Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka interacts with a doctor at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital. The Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital had to stagger tea breaks after a rise in cases among workers.The hospital currently has 37 active cases of workers who tested for the virus. Staff have shared their frustrations of lack of oxygen and…

Anchorage The Copper River Seafoods plant on East First Avenue in Anchorage on Friday. (Anchorage Daily News photo) We're making coronavirus coverage available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider joining others in supporting local journalism in Alaska for just $3.23 a week.…

Gallo Images/Darren Stewart More than 13 000 health workers - nurses, doctors, porters, administrators, paramedics and laboratory scientists - have been infected.South Africa saw its biggest jump in deaths on Wednesday of 572.There are 103 deaths and 6 394 recoveries among health workers as of Tuesday.The coronavirus has infected around 13 000 health workers and…

As the months passed, people began disappearing. Chairs once occupied by garment workers inside the Los Angeles Apparel factory sat empty. Rumors circulated about how the missing workers had gotten sick, or even died, of COVID-19.Mariana, a 56-year-old woman from El Salvador, felt afraid every day. She said workers like herself received little or delayed…