Workers Organize May Day Actions For Labor Rights

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Sonali Kolhatkar speaks with. Chris Smalls.

This Friday May 1^st, workers in numerous sectors of American society will be protesting for their rights. Appropriately May Day is the day workers all over the world express their labor rights – a day that has historic origins in the United States.

This year, given the harrowing new chapter in US and world history brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, workers – especially those considered essential – are demanding that they be treated with dignity even as they are required to risk their lives for low pay to serve the public.

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