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Why Essential Workers Are on Strike in Cook County

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July 9, 2021

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In Cook County, Illinois, members of SEIU Local 73—which represents medical staff, custodians, transportation workers, and other frontline workers—have been on strike since the end of June. On The Jacobin Show, Eugenia Harris, who has been member of Local 73 for eighteen years—talks to Paul Prescod about why essential workers in Cook County are striking to protect their benefits, working conditions, and wages in the wake of Covid.

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