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Philadelphia set to be first U.S. city to protect workers against retaliation for calling out coronavirus conditions

It’s a victory for the local labor community and a marker of what it can accomplish when sometimes disparate groups come together.

Omar Salaam, Business Manager Local 427, front center, leads a group of sanitation workers who planned to gather on the steps of the Municipal Services Building to deliver a letter to the office of the Streets Department Commissioner Carlton Williams from concerned sanitation workers, on June 17, in Philadelphia.
Omar Salaam, Business Manager Local 427, front center, leads a group of sanitation workers who planned to gather on the steps of the Municipal Services Building to deliver a letter to the office of the Streets Department Commissioner Carlton Williams from concerned sanitation workers, on June 17, in Philadelphia.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer