Labor/Employment
Dec. 28, 2020
Pandemic has lent momentum to push for more worker leverage, lawyers say
Many of these strategies have been years in the making, forged in response to more recent obstacles to unionizing introduced by President Donald Trump's administration, these advocates say.
Workers were walking off the job. They were striking, calling in sick en masse, airing grievances on social media, demanding their employers provide hazard pay, personal protective equipment, and paid leave. In the early days of the pandemic, it seemed that fear of contracting the coronavirus had emboldened workers across the nation to make demands, and those demands boiled down to one thing: more leverage in the workplace.
The assu...
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