The Best of the Week’s News:

• Employers have a legal duty to protect their workers from hazards including coronavirus, but Trump’s OSHA refuses to enforce the law. (TNR)
   
• Harry Sentoso took a job at Amazon’s warehouse in Irvine to bank some quick cash before retirement, 2 weeks later he was dead of COVID-19. (LA Times)
   
• George Floyd, the 46-year-old black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer, was a beloved member of his community. (Buzzfeed)
   
• How Wendi C. Thomas built MLK50, a non-profit newsroom dedicated to the low-wage workers of Memphis. (NYT)
   
• A CNN camera crew was arrested live on the air in Minneapolis as they covered the aftermath of last night’s protests against the killing of George Floyd by a police officer. (CNN)

Sidney’s Picks:

• How Virginia is juking its COVID-19 stats. (The Atlantic)
   
• Sanitation workers in New Orleans were demanding hazard pay and PPE, they were fired and replaced with prisoners making $1.33/hr. (PayDay Report)
   
• How the Indian state of Kerala beat COVID-19. (The Guardian)  
   
• Ohio workers got a reprieve thanks to hackers who crashed the state’s snitching website. (Vice)
   
• Remembering Celso Mendoza a Mississippi chicken processor and labor leader who died of COVID-19. (Clarion Ledger)

Sidney’s Picks:

• Thanks to everyone who joined us last night to watch host Danny Glover introduce our 2020 Hillman Prize winners! ICYMI here’s the link to the video recording.
   
• Essential workers from Amazon, Instacart, FedEx, and Walmart will walk off the job today in a historic coordinated May Day strike. (Vice)
   
• Florida gags its medical examiners, who were releasing Covid-19 death tolls higher than the state’s health department’s. (Tampa Bay Times)
   
• Inside the Diamond Princess cruise from hell. (GQ)
   
• Republican officials allowed armed protesters to storm the Michigan legislature, threatening the governor’s life and assaulting a reporter. [Michigan Advance]

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.