Republican-led states signal they could strip workers’ unemployment benefits
if they don’t return to work, sparking fresh safety fears
The message to workers is “endanger your life or starve,”
Iowa, Oklahoma and other states reopening soon amid the coronavirus outbreak are issuing early warnings to their worried workers:
Return to your jobs or risk losing unemployment benefits.
The threats have been loudest among Republican leadersin recent days,
Profits over people
Labor activists, however, contend the reality is far more complicated:
Some now-unemployed Americans weren’t making much money in the first place,
so they may not want to risk their safety just to return to underpaid old gigs.
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... while Moscow Mitch working on "immunity" from lawsuits for employers whose employees get sick on the job.

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