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OPINION | Macy’s Profits Surge While Workers Struggle: Hundreds of Employees Plan Black Friday Strike

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by Azia Domingo

These days, it’s rare to find workers who stay at their jobs in retail businesses for very long. The pay is low, the schedules can be tough on a family, and working on your feet and engaging with customers all day can be incredibly draining. 

I’ve been at Macy’s for 21 years. I truly enjoy creating engaging displays and a great store experience for our customers. Most of all, I really like my coworkers. We spend so much time together, we’ve become a family. But low pay and a lack of security at our stores is making it harder and harder to fill positions and keep employees. The City of Tukwila did a great thing by passing an increase in the minimum wage, but Macy’s isn’t doing its part to respect workers by paying fair wages and protecting our safety.

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OPINION: What’s it like to be striking for your life in a pandemic? (Seguridad y Salud)

by Johnny Mao and Johnny Fikru


Farmworkers are striking for their families and for everyone in Washington State. Without receiving the necessary protections for COVID-19, they pose a danger to the ones they love — and that is simply unjust. 

Four-hundred and fifty farmworkers at six different fruit packaging plants have decided to protect their lives and health with the only option they have left: strikes, pickets and hunger strikes. They are demanding protections from COVID-19, hazard pay, and an end to retaliation from management. This is all taking place in the county with the highest rate of COVID-19 cases spiking on the West Coast.

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