Lucy Duncan wrote this article for YES! Magazine. Lucy is the Director of Friends Relations for the American Friends Service Committee, where she organizes Quakers to work for justice.
This newly introduced bipartisan bill called the People Over Poison Act (H.R. 9528) seeks to mandate health warning labels on pesticides and restore consumers' rights to sue chemical manufacturers.
About 4,500 nurses and home-care clinicians walked out after contract talks with Mass General Brigham broke down over pay, staffing, insurance costs, and patient care.