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For some Virginia frontline workers, a struggle for COVID-19 compensation
8 minutes Posted May 7, 2021 at 7:00 pm.
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(Courtesy VCIJ) – Each work day at Dulles International Airport, customer service agent Tadese Boru faced hundreds of travelers, many stepping in close to show their boarding pass one last time before departure. Months into the pandemic, passengers still wore their masks with varying degrees of attention – snug and tight, wedged under the nose, forgotten below the chin, dangling from an ear. “They tell you mind your own business when you ask them to put back their masks,” said Boru, a 65-year-old Ethiopian immigrant. “It comes like a downpour, a lot of passengers. You know that something is going...

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