Letter to the Editor: Pandemic has shown us true value of our hardest workers

I recently read an opinion piece in the New York Times about the wages paid to essential workers
Letter to the Editor: Pandemic has shown us true value of our hardest workers
Sat, 02 May, 2020 - 01:00

I recently read an opinion piece in the New York Times about the wages paid to essential workers (www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/opinion/sunday/essential-workers-wages-covid.html).

The article reminded me of Martin Luther King Jr famously asserting that “All labour has dignity”. The article stated that “today, we are forced to confront the dissonance between our nation’s labelling of workers as ‘essential’ and ‘heroes’ and their limited wages, benefits and ability to organise”.

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