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    In April, Walmart began taking store workers’ temperatures and requiring that they wear masks or other face coverings. Walmart also has installed sneeze guards at registers, placed social-distancing decals on floors and limited the number of customers in stores. It announced that customers must wear masks in stores in mid-July.

    “We continue to mourn the loss of Wando Evans and our thoughts remain with his family. We’re also thankful Ms. Cross has recovered from her illness,” Mr. Hargrove said. “We take these situations seriously and are continuing to defend the company in both cases.”

    The families of three employees who worked at Tyson’s pork processing plant in Waterloo, Iowa, and died after contracting Covid-19 sued the meat company and nearly 20 of its executives, managers and supervisors in June.

    Their complaint, filed in Iowa District Court for Blackhawk County, contends that management was aware that the virus was spreading through the plant by early April, and was urged by local law enforcement and health officials to shut it down. Yet Tyson kept the plant open for days and allowed employees to work crowded elbow-to-elbow while most weren’t wearing face coverings, according to the lawsuit.

    More than 1,000 Tyson employees were infected with Covid-19 at the Waterloo facility and five have died, according to the lawsuit.

    Among them were Sedika Buljic, a 58-year-old Bosnian refugee who worked at Tyson for 18 years before she died April 18 from complications of Covid-19. Reberiano Garcia, a 60-year-old father of 10 whose wife died of cancer last fall, suc bed to the virus on April 23. Jose Luis Ayala, Jr., a 44-year-old maintenance worker known for tinkering with computers, died May 25 from complications of the virus.

    The complaint filed by their families says that the company acted with gross negligence because it encouraged sick employees to come to work and failed to implement or convey a range of safety measures to workers, many of whom don’t speak English. The families are seeking unspecified economic, noneconomic and punitive damages.

    Tyson said on April 22 it was closing the plant because of Covid-19 cases, worker absenteeism and community concerns. It reopened May 7 after testing all returning workers for the virus, opening an on-site health clinic at the plant and taking other safety measures.

    In a court filing earlier this week, Tyson denied the plaintiffs’ allegations and moved the case to a federal court.

    Tyson spokesman Gary Mickelson declined to comment on the lawsuit. He said the meat company started educating workers about the virus in multiple languages in January and told employees to stay home if they didn’t feel well. Mr. Mickelson said that the county health department for weeks declined to share information about Tyson workers with Covid-19, and that once it provided the company with a list of names and case information, the company decided to idle production at the plant.

    “We’re saddened by the loss of any Tyson team member and sympathize with their families. Our top priority is the health and safety of our workers,” Mr. Mickelson said. He said Tyson is aware of a small number of active Covid-19 cases involving workers at its Waterloo plant.

    Maurice Dotson, a nursing assistant who helped clothe and change the diapers of residents at the West Oaks Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Austin, Texas, went to a local hospital in early April with symptoms of the new coronavirus. He told his mother that “I got the virus at my job but I’m going to be all right,” said Quentin Brogdon, an attorney for his mother.

    Mr. Dotson tested positive for the virus and, after being put on a ventilator, died April 17. He was 51 years old. In May his mother filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court against the nursing home seeking damages of $1 million or more. Her pe ion contends that the nursing home acted with negligence because it failed to appreciate the danger of Covid-19 and didn’t properly train workers to mitigate its spread.

    Regency Integrated Health Services, which manages the nursing home, denied the allegations in a June court filing.

    Brooke C. Ladner, a senior vice president at the company, declined to comment on the lawsuit. She said staff members at the facility are following enhanced infection control and prevention processes that were implemented when the pandemic began in early March, and that Mr. Dotson “was a dedicated health-care worker who touched countless lives.”
    Walmart already moved to toss the lawsuit. Again, not sure why we need anything special here. Companies like these get sued for on-the-job injuries all the time.

    And why would the family of these people do not deserve they day in court? If they can prove there was negligence on the company's part, isn't that justice?

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    How the Trump Administration Allowed Aviation Companies to Keep Relief Money That Was Supposed to Go to Workers

    One of the most generous programs of the bailout was

    meant to help airline industry companies keep their workers on the payroll.

    Some laid workers off first and then got the money anyway.

    https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-trump-administration-allowed-aviation-companies-to-keep-relief-money-that-was-supposed-to-go-to-workers

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    In GOP plan,

    you can’t sue your employers for giving you COVID —

    but they can sue you


    The GOP proposal would erect almost

    insurmountable obstacles to lawsuits by workers who become infected with the coronavirus at their workplaces.

    It would absolve employers of responsibility for taking any but the most minimal steps to make their workplaces safe.

    It would preempt tough state workplace safety laws (not that there are very many of them).


    And while shutting the courthouse door to workers, it

    would allow employers to sue workers for demanding safer conditions.

    https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-07-29/covid-employer-liability?fbclid=IwAR29c9XMlmLWYYbrBZgnJpsjii2q1-Mgvxbx1BfkSrcmi-hSQz1oT4_p0SU



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    White House willing to cut a stimulus deal without ‘liability shield,’ breaking with McConnell

    The Senate majority leader had said this week that

    there would be no deal with Democrats without legal protections for employers against pandemic claims


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/31/liability-shield-congress-bailout/

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    Conservatives threaten to upend stimulus negotiations with last minute demand for payroll tax cut

    https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/conservatives-threaten-to-upend-stimulus-negotiations-with-last-minute-demand-for-payroll-tax-cut/

    Repugs intend to use
    evictions,
    foreclosures,
    homelessness,
    worse economy,
    Ms more job losses,
    incredible pain for America and Americans,

    to get immunity for businesses and now to defund SS, Medicare, Medicaid.

    all these assholes, and you voters, to



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    Yale Study on $600 Unemployment Lifeline Championed by Democrats Destroys Favorite GOP Talking Point

    debunks the repeated GOP talking point that the $600 federal expansion of unemployment benefits has disincentivized people from returning to work

    The economists examined weekly data from Homebase—a firm that provides scheduling and time clock software to small businesses—and found "no evidence that more generous benefits disincentivized work either at the onset of the expansion or as firms looked to return to business over time."

    "The data do not show a relationship between benefit generosity and employment paths after the CARES Act,

    which could be due to the collapse of labor demand during the Covid-19 crisis,"

    , "the researchers tested their results against employment outcomes in the federal government's Current Population Survey, a more representative sample of the labor market than the Homebase data, and obtained similar findings."

    The Yale study found that

    people with expanded unemployment benefits actually resumed working at a similar or slightly quicker rate than others did.

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/29/yale-study-600-unemployment-lifeline-championed-democrats-destroys-favorite-gop?cd-origin=rss


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    interesting bottleneck, the GM prof's suggestion of course is that the world will end unless generous public grants are swiftly given to insolvent companies.

    pesky federal laws.

    Part of the limitation with the Main Street program is that the Fed is legally prohibited from lending to insolvent companies, making it more hesitant to step in to aid troubled businesses. And it cannot provide grants, only loans.

    “It’s just too hard to do this through the constraints the Fed has on it by law,” said David Beckworth, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

    The Fed is also not set up to take losses in case the loans default, so it has partnered with the Treasury to cover any losses with funding from the CARES Act, the $2 trillion economic relief package passed by Congress in March.
    https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...usiness-389899

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    yep, and with the Repug plutocrats, financed by the oligarchy, ready to push the non-oligarchy over the edge, plus the feckless Dems,

    America is ed and un able.

    Any and all solutions will be blocked by the Repugs until they get legal immunity for employers and payroll taxes cancelled.

    and they are going to cripple the USPS with Trash's kakistocrat appointed to up the USPS before November.

    50M+ Americans will vote for Trash and the Repugs to keep ing up and killing Americans.

    Citizens are completely powerless, eg, neo-liberal, center-right, BigDollar DNC just blocked, by a huge majority vote, a Medicare-for-all plank from their platform



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    Trump’s Billionaire Treasury Secretary Tells The Unemployed They Don’t Need An Extra $600/Week

    the extra $600/week in unemployment benefits is disrupting the economy.

    https://www.politicususa.com/2020/08/02/steve-mnuchin-unemployed.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=f eed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Po liticus+USA+%29

    how about Trump-Made Pandemic? any disruption there?

    ... from the predator Capitalist asshole who "forgot" to declare his $100M stashed offshore.

    When he took over IndyMac, he had "no option" but to foreclose on 1000s of homes.









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    The only real programs that benefit the little guy, the stimulus and the unemployment benefit, are the sticking point in the new Hero's act. Government gets theirs, big businesses get theirs, but taxpayers get reduced benefits. There are 4 unemployed people for every 1 job available in the US right now.

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    The only real programs that benefit the little guy, the stimulus and the unemployment benefit, are the sticking point in the new Hero's act. Government gets theirs, big businesses get theirs, but taxpayers get reduced benefits. There are 4 unemployed people for every 1 job available in the US right now.
    UNEMPLOYMENT is the second most serious problem we're facing right now but eyes glaze over.

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    When we'll know it's time to reduce the unemployment boost

    Super-unemployment was the main thing keeping the economy from spiraling into a complete collapse.

    If it is cut off too soon, then America could easily nosedive right back into a recession.


    A good candidate would be

    when the ratio of jobseekers to jobs goes below one

    — meaning there are more job openings than unemployed people (right now, there are four jobseekers for every opening).

    For one thing, that is facially fair.

    One can hardly blame people for going unemployed when there are simply not enough jobs to go around.

    For another, that situation has only happened once in the last 20 years (between January 2018 and February 2020),

    because those were the only two years when America got even close to full employment.

    Keeping our foot all the way to the floor on super-unemployment until the job market is very strong

    will ensure that America can pole-vault out of the pandemic economic sand pit, and

    not be stuck with weak growth and few jobs as it was for nearly a decade after the Great Recession. https://theweek.com/speedreads/92899...ployment-boost

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    "With Jobless Aid Expired, Trump Sidelines Himself in Stimulus Talks
    As his top advisers met with Democratic leaders to try to hash out a compromise, President Trump hurled insults at Democrats and mused aloud about short-circuiting the talks and acting on his own....

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/u...lks-trump.html


    Reminds me of that rabid NBA fan that sits behind the visiting teams bench hurling insults.

    he'll make sure his name is on that check again tho. What a .

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    WTF are the Senate Repugs thinking, really W T F?

    They just wanna OWN the House Dems with a big less YOU and AMERICANS?

    Over 100 CEOs beg Congress:

    Don't let small businesses fail permanentlyIn a pleading letter,

    Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff,
    Starbucks founder Howard Schultz,
    former American Express CEO Ken Chenault, and
    Walmart CEO Doug McMillon and
    others

    asked lawmakers for a list of measures that would

    help small businesses, which contribute 44% of the country’s GDP and

    employ half the nation’s private-sector workforce to stay afloat.


    Other company leaders who signed onto the letter:

    Google CEO Sundar Pichai,
    Union Square Hospitality Group CEO Danny Meyer,
    Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson,
    MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga,
    Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon, and
    former HP CEO Meg Whitman.

    “From retailers and restaurants to consulting firms and manufacturers, small business owners are

    facing a future of potential financial ruin

    that will make the nation’s current economic downturn last years longer than it must,” the CEOs wrote.

    "To survive until a vaccine is widely available,

    millions of small businesses will require longer-term support from the federal government,” the leaders wrote.

    Underscoring the need for action, the CEOs said that

    every day without a plan makes recovery more difficult

    and that without immediate action,

    waves of permanent closures will lead to

    a domino effect of lost jobs, products, and services by Labor Day —

    which "could be catastrophic."

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/over-100-ce-os-beg-congress-dont-let-small-businesses-fail-forever-175536533.html


    What you get with gerrymandered, corrupt red states

    so that Capitalist- s Repug politicians are immune to everything EXCEPT BigDonor $Ms and BigDonor wishes.

    Any politicized, wealthy so-called Christian pastors speaking up, to keep the hes rolling into their bank accounts?





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    Defense contractor with billions in sales got millions in pandemic loans intended for small businesses

    Atlantic Diving Supply grew to become a major defense contractor in the years after 9/11

    A military equipment supplier that has been accused of fraudulently misrepresenting its size in order to benefit from privileges associated with being a small business has received a Paycheck Protection Program small business loan worth at least $2 million

    ADS was one of at least 27 PPP recipients estimated annual sales of more than $1 billion in 2019.

    Another 2,068 loan recipients cleared $100 million in sales last year,

    two other firms allegedly tied to ADS ― including one that was named in a settlement with the Department of Justice ― separately received smaller PPP loans.

    it strains credibility that Atlantic Diving Supply is a real small business, especially given several recent settlements and law enforcement outcomes related to their alleged small business contracting fraud."

    ADS received more than $3 billion in unclassified government contract dollars in 2019,

    That’s more than some well-known, objectively large government contractors, including Bechtel, KBR and CACI.

    ADS has already cleared $1 billion in federal contract receipts in 2020 despite the economic crisis.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ll-businesses/

    Who is ADS paying in Repug government to get back such huge small business $Ms?



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    Top Federal Reserve official says US needs another lockdown to save economy

    Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, said

    the nation needs to control the spread of the virus, which is increasing across much of the country, to get back on a path to economic health.


    “That's the only way we're really going to have a real robust economic recovery.

    Otherwise, we're going to have

    flare-ups,

    lockdowns and

    a very halting recovery with many more job losses and

    many more bankruptcies

    for an extended period of time unfortunately,”

    https://thehill.com/policy/finance/5...o-save-economy

    Senate Repugs simply DON'T CARE.



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    Top Federal Reserve official says US needs another lockdown to save economy

    Neel Kashkari, president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, said

    the nation needs to control the spread of the virus, which is increasing across much of the country, to get back on a path to economic health.


    “That's the only way we're really going to have a real robust economic recovery.

    Otherwise, we're going to have

    flare-ups,

    lockdowns and

    a very halting recovery with many more job losses and

    many more bankruptcies

    for an extended period of time unfortunately,”

    https://thehill.com/policy/finance/5...o-save-economy

    Senate Repugs simply DON'T CARE.


    It's not an emergency until billionaires start going bankrupt, tbh. Think back to April. The main difference between then and now is the leg down in equity markets.

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    Hubert Horan:

    The Airline Industry Collapse Part 3 – Recovery Expectations Were Always Dreadfully Wrong


    With the current demand collapse (roughly 75% traffic volume, 85% revenue) the industry has struck an iceberg and the damage may keep the ship from ever getting back to port in one piece. But the industry’s narrative ludicrously claims that we are just seeing the same kind of engine room problems we saw in 2000 and 2008, that thus the coronavirus recovery will look just like the recovery from those single digit traffic drops. Iceberg strikes don’t always sink ships, especially if action is quickly taken to limit structural damage. But the narrative asserts airlines haven’t been anywhere near any icebergs, and thus there’s no need to think about the possibility that this iceberg strike might threaten the integrity of the ship.
    Very few countries have followed the US approach of subsidizing existing airline owners. In those countries major carriers have either gone bankrupt or have been nationalized.
    https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020...lly-wrong.html

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    The 2000 post-dot-com era recession cut US airline traffic by 6% and revenue by 19%, but this forced airlines operating 75% of industry capacity into bankruptcy. [8] This makes the industry’s efforts to convince people that a 75-85% collapse poses no threat to the viability of today’s major airlines especially challenging.

    A recent study that attempted to present apples-to-apples data calculated that the cash flow drain of the big four US airlines in the second quarter was $168 million per day, or $15.4 billion per quarter. [9] That cash drain is the water flooding into the hole of the industry’s ship created by the iceberg.

    It is structurally impossible for airlines to match these catastrophic revenue declines with comparable expense cuts, and there is no way that these airlines can suddenly improve cash flow by $15.4 billion per quarter. Operating expenses — which do not include major cost items such aircraft lease payments or contractually committed CAPEX purchases — fell only 68% at United and 57% at Southwest. Airlines can avoid certain purely variable expenses (fuel, landing fees, sales commissions, credit card fees) but many critical expenses (fleet, IT, airport facilities, maintenance bases) are locked-in over the medium term, and must be paid even if most of the fleet is grounded.

    These airlines understand the financial data and are pursuing increasingly desperate measures to reduce the hemorrhaging of cash. As described in last month’s post, they have been trying to raise cash by claiming that the frequent flyer programs that are integral parts of their marketing and revenue management systems are actually independent business that could be spun off. [10] American (with Goldman Sachs) just secured a $1.2 billion loan (@10.75%) collateralized by slots and by intellectual property, including its brand name and the “aa.com” domain name. [11]

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    As described in the first article in this series two months ago [12] there was always an alternative that could have plugged the hole in the ship and prevented it from sinking. If airlines filed for bankruptcy protection as soon as it became obvious the virus could not be rapidly contained, they could have halted huge wasteful cash drains. Bankruptcy is painful and difficult but would have eliminated all the expenses related to unsustainable operations, and all the payments on unsustainable debt and fleet obligations. Moving quickly would have maximized the long-term value of the companies and maximized the recovery available for employees and creditors.

    Instead, these airlines gambled that there was some way to preserve current equity holders’ control of the company. This narrative was constructed to “explain” why there were no risks of bankruptcy, despite a revenue collapse dramatically larger than ones that recently sent 75% of the industry into bankruptcy. This gamble depended on all of the most optimistic scenarios coming true — rapid virus suppression and vaccine distribution, a robust summer 2020 revenue rebound, no damage to underlying corporate and international demand, and continuing taxpayer subsidies.

    The senior managers of these major carriers deliberately, consciously choose to not deal with any of the real problems caused by the iceberg in the hope that their creative story-telling could distract everyone from all the financial evidence until a powerful turnaround magically appeared.

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    Congressional oversight, o?

    Days Without a Bailout Oversight Chair

    130. Although maybe the chair is superfluous. The Congressional Oversight Commission is actually holding a hearing on Friday about the Main Street Lending Program. Maybe it will cover how the Fed changed the program to support the oil and gas industry. The hearing should stream at its new website, coc.senate.gov, which is sadly… not operative yet.
    https://prospect.org/coronavirus/uns...ds-are-scarce/

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    Most swing-state voters support extending $600 weekly unemployment benefit


    • Most voters in six key 2020 election states support an extension of the $600 per week unemployment benefit, along with another direct payment and state and local government relief, according to a new CNBC/Change Research poll.
    • A majority of respondents also opposes shielding corporations from coronavirus-related lawsuits, the survey found.
    • Those issues will be among the most contentious as Republicans and Democrats try to strike an agreement on a pandemic relief bill.


    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/29/coronavirus-stimulus-voters-support-enhanced-unemployment-cnbcchange-poll-finds.html




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