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May Day Car Rally to Support Essential Workers

May 1st, 3pm. We'll keep our physical distance in our cars but come ready to rally in support of the #frontlineheroes who are working essential jobs every day. Make signs to display in your car windows!

29, Apr, 2020

Kerri Capodilupo, MBTA Inspector & Frontline Hero

Meet Kerri Capodilupo, an MBTA Inspector and member of Local 600. Kerri is not only working on the frontlines, she also organized to get and distribute 500 facemasks to her fellow coworkes.

23, Apr, 2020

Esmeralda Baez, Laundry Worker & Frontline Hero

Meet Esmeralda Baez, a production worker at an industrial laundry facility in Boston and member of UNITE HERE New England Joint Board. Esmeralda shares her story from the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis as part of the Greater Boston Labor Council's #FrontlineHeroes series.

22, Apr, 2020

AFL-CIO Warns Against Hasty Reopening Of Economy: ‘Many More Deaths’

The AFL-CIO warned Tuesday that workplaces were still far too dangerous to consider reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic, even as some governors are starting to lift restrictions in order to get businesses up and running again.

21, Apr, 2020

Heroes on the Frontlines of COVID-19

This has been a month like no other in modern American history. We are in a war against an invisible virus that has required most people to stay home to fight it.

20, Apr, 2020

Aaron Roberson, MBTA Mechanic & Frontline Hero

Meet Aaron Roberson, an MBTA bus mechanic in South Boston and member of the Machinists Union, Local 264. Aaron shares his story from the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis as part of the Greater Boston Labor Council's #FrontlineHeroes series.

14, Apr, 2020