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New Essential Worker CDC Guidelines Threaten Health of Teamsters, Public
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 Apr. 10, 2020 | SAFETY & HEALTH | New Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines that reduce safeguards for essential workers whose colleagues are diagnosed with COVID-19 (see the previous post below) must be reversed, as they jeopardize the health and safety of those on the job and threaten to further expose coronavirus to the general public at a time the illness is reaching its peak. Teamsters and others who work in the food supply chain, as well as those working in the health care and waste industries, deserve to be protected as they perform their necessary duties. It makes no sense for the CDC to change direction now after previously siding with these frontline workers who are keeping America running during this moment of crisis. We need to protect these workers so they can do the job of protecting the rest of us. “In these challenging times, all government agencies, especially the CDC, should be supporting those who continue to risk their well-being by doing essential jobs that are allowing their fellow Americans to keep their families safe and fed,” Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa said. “This new CDC guidance flies in the face of that and needs to be overturned now…” Teamsters
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