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The food and service industries were hit particularly hard by COVID-19 in Illinois, at one point losing more than 200,000 workers, and have yet to meet pre-pandemic numbers according to the U.S ...
Meatpacking plants experienced sporadic shutdowns as many workers contracted COVID-19, resulting in spot meat shortages around the country. [citation needed] According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report stating that by April 27, out of 130,578 workers nationwide, at least 4,913 meat and poultry plant workers had ...
The same day, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker announced that an infant in the city of Chicago died after testing positive for COVID-19. [72] Infants made up a small fraction of COVID-19 related deaths worldwide, and this was the first death for any infant in the United States who tested positive for COVID-19 . [73]
Strikes occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic due to many factors including: hazard pay or low pay, unsafe working conditions (due to poor social distancing or a lack of personal protective equipment), inability to pay rent. These strikes are separate from the various protests that occurred over responses to the pandemic.
A post on social media claims Illinois’ plan to keep the coronavirus from spreading ravaged its local economy – and the people will have to pay for it. Fact check: Post linking Illinois' COVID ...
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By June 2020, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union reported that 238 of its 1.3 million member workers had died of COVID-19. [44] Herman Cain, CEO of Godfather's Pizza from 1986 to 1996 and the National Restaurant Association from 1996 to 1999, died from COVID-19 in July 2020. [45]
Story at a glance Illinois is now the third state in the nation to require employers to offer workers paid time off “for any reason.” Illinois workers will be able to use their earned time off ...