April 17, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Morgue Temps, Costco, and the "Responsibility Bonus"

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Yuri Samoilov, Creative Commons. (website)
The Best of the Week’s News:
- Dispatch from a temp worker who loads the remains of coronavirus patients into refrigerated trucks.
- Costco has a reputation as a good employer, but workers feel betrayed by the company’s handling of coronavirus.
- During a pandemic, everything’s an emergency and nothing is: How coronavirus is hurting every critically ill patient.
- More than 900 workers at New York City’s public hospitals test positive for Covid-19.
- Chicken processing workers fear mass outbreaks of coronavirus.
- Smithfield Foods bribed their employees to work sick with a $500 “responsibility bonus,” now their plant is at the center of a Covid-19 outbreak.