Latina Equal Pay Day was this week, and if it’s not bad enough that it took this long for Latinas to be paid as much as white men made in 2019, the coronavirus pandemic is dumping additional bad news on them. Women are dropping out of the workforce in large numbers, but Latinas are dropping out in larger numbers than white or Black women—nearly three times and more than four times the rate, respectively.
Then there are Latina domestic workers, who have been crushed by the COVID-19 economy, losing work and in many cases not being eligible for government assistance.
The pandemic is hitting hardest where people were already struggling—with higher infection and death rates among Latino and Black people, and with the economic impact also falling disproportionately on people who are already discriminated against and underpaid and unprotected.
● According to the Ohio Supreme Court, it isn’t an invasion of privacy when a company watches workers pee for drug screenings. Workers at Sterilite had signed consent forms, according to the court, so hey, no problem. They get to choose between their privacy and their jobs.
● India’s engineers have thrived in Silicon Valley. So has its caste system.
The legacy of discrimination from the Indian caste system is rarely discussed as a factor in Silicon Valley’s persistent diversity problems. Decades of tech industry labor practices, such as recruiting candidates from a small cohort of top schools or relying on the H-1B visa system for highly skilled workers, have shaped the racial demographics of its technical workforce. Despite that fact, Dalit engineers and advocates say that tech companies don’t understand caste bias and have not explicitly prohibited caste-based discrimination.
● Laid-off Disney workers blame Trump, not Mickey, for their woes.
● The Movement for Black Lives and labor's revival.
● NowThis has unionized.
● The economy could lose a generation of working mothers, Bryce Covert writes. The reporting on this is extensive and clear but is the Republican Senate going to do a damn thing about it? Of course not.
● Health-care workers file lawsuit against OSHA, accusing agency of failing to keep them safe.
● About 20% of grocery store workers had Covid-19, and most didn't have symptoms, study found.
