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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 21 July 2020
Continued from Front combat police brutality,"
About 1,500 janitors in San said Kyle Bragg, president
Francisco walked off their of 32BJ, a union represent-
jobs and planned to lead ing more than 170,000 of-
a march to City Hall later fice janitors, security work-
in the day, according to ers and doormen on the
Fight for $15, a labor group East Coast.
that supports raising the "Until we have racial justice,
U.S. minimum wage to $15 we cannot have econom-
an hour. McDonald's cooks ic, climate or immigrant jus-
and cashiers in Los Angeles tice," Bragg said.
and nursing home workers In Massachusetts, about
in St. Paul were also striking, 200 people, including
the group said. health care workers, jani-
Participants in local rallies tors and other essential
included delivery men and employees, joined Demo-
women, fast food employ- cratic candidates for U.S.
ees, ride-share and airport Senate in front of the State-
workers. house in Boston.
Glen Brown, a 48-year-old "We're just being over-
wheelchair agent at the worked and underpaid,
Minneapolis-St. Paul Inter- and it makes you some-
national Airport for nearly times lose your compas- Protesters march outside a McDonald's in Detroit, Monday, July 20, 2020.
five years, said his job does sion," said Toyai Anderson, Associated Press
not give him the option of 44, who planned to walk
social distancing. Brown off her job as a nursing aide was striking from her job Matter movement. to guarantee people of all
and fellow workers called for two hours at Hartford as a supervisor at Freddy's "The Strike for Black Lives races can thrive. That de-
for a $15 minimum age dur- Nursing and Rehab Center Frozen Custard and Steak- is a moment of reckoning mand includes raising wag-
ing an event in St. Paul, and in Detroit. "It makes me sec- burgers to draw attention for corporations that have es and allowing workers to
he said workers were "seiz- ond guess if I am sure this is to the need for better pay long ignored the concerns unionize to negotiate bet-
ing our moment" to seek my calling." and benefits. of their Black workforce ter health care, sick leave
change. After 13 years on the job, Allen said she makes about and denied them better and child care support.
"We are front-line workers, Anderson makes $15.75 an $11 per hour. working conditions, living Justice Favor, 38, an or-
(and) we are risking our hour. Nationally, the typical "I don't actually get paid wages and health care," ganizer with the Laborers'
lives, but we're doing it at nursing aide makes $13.38, sick days," Allen said. "We said Henderson, who is also International Union Local
a wage that doesn't even according to health care don't get health care" or co-executive director of 79, which represents 10,000
match the risk," Brown said. worker advocacy group personal protective equip- the Tennessee-based High- predominately Black and
In Manhattan, more than PCI, and 1 in 4 nursing ment. lander Research and Edu- Hispanic construction work-
150 union workers rallied home workers is Black. The strike continues an on- cation Center. ers in New York City, said he
outside Trump International Hundreds of other work- going global reckoning Participants broadly de- hopes that the strike mo-
Hotel to demand that the ers were expected to walk on race and police brutal- manded action by corpo- tivates more white work-
Senate and President Don- off their jobs at six Detroit ity set off by the death of rations and government to ers to acknowledge the
ald Trump adopt the HE- nursing homes, according George Floyd, a Black man confront systemic racism existence of racism and
ROES Act, which provides to the Service Employees who died at the hands of and economic inequal- discrimination in the work-
protective equipment, es- International Union. The Minneapolis police in late ity that limits mobility and place.
sential pay and extended workers are demanding May. career advancement for "There was a time when
unemployment benefits to higher wages and more "We are ... building a coun- many Black and Hispanic the Irish and Italians were
workers who cannot work safety equipment to keep try where Black lives mat- workers, who make up a a subjugated people, too,"
from home. It has already them from catching and ter in every aspect of so- disproportionate number said Favor, who is Black.
been passed by the House. spreading the virus, as well ciety — including in the of those earning less than a "How would you feel if you
"Today, we're here to de- as better health care ben- workplace," said Ash-Lee living wage. weren't able to fully as-
mand from those in power, efits and paid sick leave. Henderson, an organizer Specifically, organizers similate into society? Once
including the man whose Jamila Allen, 23, who joined with the Movement for called on corporate lead- you have an open mind,
name adorns the building, other protesters outside Black Lives, a coalition of ers and elected govern- you have to call out your
that it's time to dismantle a McDonald's in Durham, over 150 organizations that ment officials to use execu- coworkers who are doing
white supremacy and North Carolina, said she make up the Black Lives tive and legislative power wrong to others."q

Judge allows challenge to terrorist watchlist to move ahead

FALLS CHURCH, Va, (AP) Paula Xinis in Greenbelt becoming FBI informants. A judge in Alexandria, Vir- access to the list to check
— A federal judge in to toss out the lawsuit. But Gadeir Abbas, a lawyer for ginia, ruled in favor of Mus- people coming into the
Maryland is allowing doz- in a 65-page ruling issued the Council on American- lim plaintiffs last year in a country at border cross-
ens of Muslim plaintiffs to Monday, she allowed it to Islamic Relations who is similar challenge that was ings, and aviation officials
move ahead with a law- proceed. representing the plaintiffs, focused a little more nar- use the database to help
suit against Attorney Gen- It was not a total victory for said Monday's ruling is the rowly, but that case has form the no-fly list, which
eral William Barr and other the plaintiffs, though: The broadest legal challenge been held up on the ques- is a much smaller subset of
federal officials challeng- judge did toss out some to the watchlist that has tion of what kind of reme- the broader watchlist.
ing the constitutionality of parts of the case, including made it this far in the le- dy should be crafted. The watchlist has grown
the government's watch- claims that the watchlist in- gal process and "is the lat- The watchlist, also known significantly over the years.
list of people identified as terfered with First Amend- est sign that the era of the as the Terrorist Screening As of 2017, approximately
"known or suspected ter- ment rights to free assem- federal government's ex- Database, is maintained 1.16 million people were
rorists." bly, as well as a claim that trajudicial targeting of in- by the FBI and shared with included on the watchlist,
Government lawyers had the watchlist is used to un- nocent Muslims will not go a variety of federal agen- according to government
asked U.S. District Judge fairly pressure Muslims into on forever." cies. Customs officers have documents.q