United States: trade union lead demonstrations in support of the Black Lives Matter movement

The SEIU (Service Employees International Union representing workers in low-wage sectors who continued to work during the COVID-19 pandemic), together with other major unions and civil society movements have organized protests in about 100 American cities to carry the message that – there is no economic justice without racial justice – and to highlight the contradiction between the support that some large corporations have shown for the Black Lives Matter movement and the fact that they are paying ‘poverty wages, do not grant sick leave, and fail to provide personal protective equipment’, i.e. practices which the organiser hold have facilitated the spread of the virus within the black and South American communities, the members of which are primarily employed by these targeted companies/sectors.