Sabrina Roy felt the economic sting of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier than most. She worked in housekeeping at the Colorado Convention Center, one of many venues hit with cascading cancellations starting in March 2020. “We worked from the beginning of the pandemic to exactly on my birthday, March 24th. That was the day that we all got laid off,” Roy said. Since then, unemployment benefits and the federal stimulus payments have helped Roy “keep above water.” The Service Employees International Union Local 105 recently negotiated an agreement to keep the jobs at the convention center open through September. The continuing rollout of vaccines could help get Roy back to the work she misses as people feel more comfortable traveling and venturing out into crowds. But the pandemic-induced recession has thrown businesses, workers, economists and health officials plenty of curveballs over the last 13 months.
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Judith Kohler, Joe Rubino, Denver Post: Business
Sun, 04/11/2021 - 5:00am
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