Frontline in a Pandemic: A UPS Worker’s View - Labor Notes
UPS workers did not think we’d be frontline workers in a pandemic, but here we are.
NOT EVEN LYSOL WIPES
I interact with 75-100 people daily; 300-500 packages move through my hands on a given day. I open who knows how many door handles and touch even more handrails. Two thousand people move through a guard shack at work which you have to push your body against, and all of this is done without a single care from my employer to sanitize ANYTHING.
UPS workers did not think we’d be frontline workers in a pandemic, but here we are.
NOT EVEN LYSOL WIPES
I interact with 75-100 people daily; 300-500 packages move through my hands on a given day. I open who knows how many door handles and touch even more handrails. Two thousand people move through a guard shack at work which you have to push your body against, and all of this is done without a single care from my employer to sanitize ANYTHING.