Laid-off hotel and restaurant workers are campaigning fulltime against Trump in crucial swing states

[sunonmars]

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Meniano is one of millions of workers who lost their jobs earlier in the pandemic and still haven’t been hired back. With his schedule wide open, he is now canvassing full-time in hopes of ousting Trump from the White House. His union, Unite Here, has been paying him and other out-of-work members an hourly wage to knock on doors and get out the vote for Biden and other Democrats.

Unite Here says it has turned more than 1,000 of its members into canvassers in four swing states: Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania. Like Meniano, many are immigrants and other people of color who feel threatened by Trump’s racism and hardline policies. They also face a long and painful spell of joblessness due to a pandemic that the Trump administration has grossly mismanaged. Roughly three out of four of the union’s members are still out of work.

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Now that's what I call be proactive and productive in the face of adversity.

[Marius25]

1. I'm a hotel worker who got laid of due to Covid.

I'm not in a swing state though. DC metro.

It's going to be a long time until we can apply for hotel jobs again.