Workforce – WES https://www.wes.org/resource-library/blog/tag/workforce/ Mon, 12 May 2025 15:31:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.wes.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/cropped-WES_Logo_RGB-Primary_Green-Clearspace-e1719869905447-32x32.png Workforce – WES https://www.wes.org/resource-library/blog/tag/workforce/ 32 32 Building Worker Power Through Collaboration with Community Organizations https://www.wes.org/resource-library/blog/worker-and-employer-strategies/building-worker-power-through-collaboration-with-community-organizations/ Wed, 30 Oct 2024 17:04:48 +0000 https://www.wes.org/?p=46475 Written by Olivia Fox, Program Intern at the WES Mariam Assefa Fund When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, racialized essential workers at the Cargill meatpacking plant in Alberta faced a disproportionately high risk of contracting the virus. The existing exploitative and dangerous work conditions in the meatpacking sector, such as crowded industrial spaces and […]

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