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The Detroit casino workers strike, explained
Kolada Richardson returned to work cleaning hotel rooms at Detroit's MGM Grand in May 2021 after more than a year off the job. When the casinos closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, she weathered unemployment only to find that her job had gone from tough to brutal.
Many of her coworkers didn't return, and the hotel was short-staffed. Ten-hour…