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And we provide such an essential function,” Cosenza said. “We’re just trying to get something that is more equitable, you know, ideally at least on par with minimum wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Law SF student workers are seeking to be recognized as a new bargaining unit with United Auto Workers, which currently represents more than 36,000 teaching assistants, as well as graduate student instructors, researchers and readers across the University of California system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They will join tens of thousands of student workers across the country. In 2023 alone, 30 new student-worker collective bargaining units formed across the country, more than any year in the last decade, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://slu.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Union-Density-2023.pdf\">2023 study\u003c/a> from the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s thrilling to see over 70% of student workers come together to raise the standards at UC Law SF,” said Mike Miller, director of UAW Region 6, in a press statement. “As these workers join 15,000 other UAW academic workers in the Bay Area and thousands more across the country, they are more than ready to negotiate a strong first contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education took place in 2022, when around \u003ca href=\"https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/11/15/48000-u-california-student-workers-researchers-strike\">48,000 student workers, researchers, postdoctoral scholars and more walked out of the University of California’s 10 campuses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re excited to be joining a movement of academic workers forming unions across the country,” said Mikaela Gareeb, a legal research and writing teaching assistant at UC Law SF. “Many of us like our jobs because they give us an opportunity to help our peers build their skills; however, we deserve to be fairly compensated for the work that we put in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement emailed to KQED, a spokesperson for UC Law SF said the institution supports student workers’ rights to unionize under the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC Law SF supports employees’ rights to decide whether or not they think union representation would be beneficial for them,” said John Kepley Chief Communications Officer for UC Law SF. “We have nothing further to add at this time and will engage with the process set forth by [the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982354/student-workers-file-to-unionize-at-uc-law-san-francisco","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20013","news_19904","news_38","news_32743","news_794"],"featImg":"news_11982310","label":"news"},"news_11981932":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981932","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981932","score":null,"sort":[1712314807000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-schools-may-have-to-compete-with-fast-food-industry-after-minimum-wage-hike","title":"California Schools May Have to Compete With Fast-Food Industry After Minimum Wage Hike","publishDate":1712314807,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Schools May Have to Compete With Fast-Food Industry After Minimum Wage Hike | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Lost in the hubbub surrounding California’s new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-minimum-wage-increase-fast-food-newsom-69c26b7f07f2647149c37677446cea30\">$20-per-hour minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast-food workers is how that raise could impact public schools, forcing districts to compete with the likes of McDonald’s and Wendy’s for cafeteria workers amid a state budget crunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minimum wage law that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fast-food-minimum-wage-a04c2e559b09cbcd26dd5702e0755a83\">took effect Monday\u003c/a> guarantees at least $20 per hour for workers at fast-food restaurant chains that have at least 60 locations nationwide. That doesn’t include school food service workers, historically some of the lowest-paid workers in public education.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Cancy McArn, chief human resources officer, Sacramento Unified School District\"]‘We are looking not only at competing with districts and comparing with districts, we’re also looking at fast-food places.’[/pullquote]Yet demand for school meals is higher than ever in California, the first state to guarantee \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-government-and-politics-education-california-b959171f408b549eb46376998c02ac2c\">free meals for all students\u003c/a> regardless of their family’s income. And demand is projected to fuel an increase of more than 70 million extra meals in California schools this year compared to 2018, according to the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these jobs typically have lots of turnover and are harder to fill. The minimum wage boost for fast-food workers could make that even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are all very worried about it. Most are saying they anticipate it will be harder and harder to hire employees,” said Carrie Bogdanovich, president of the California School Nutrition Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, some districts have already taken steps to compete in the new reality. Last year, the Sacramento Unified School District — anticipating the law’s passage — agreed to a 10% increase for its food service workers and other low-paying jobs, followed by another 6% increase July 1 of this year to bump their wages up to $20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11975340,news_11977956,news_11974073\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Cancy McArn, the district’s chief human resources officer, said it was the largest single raise in the district in nearly three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are looking not only at competing with districts and comparing with districts, we’re also looking at fast-food places,” McArn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, San Luis Coastal Unified doubled its food service staff to 40 people after seeing a 52% increase in the number of students eating school meals. The district prepares 8,500 meals daily for 7,600 students across 15 school sites — breakfast, lunch and even supper options for youth in after-school sports and activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since limited the number of its entry-level positions, which are the hardest to fill, while seeking to hire more for complex roles like “culinary lead” and “central kitchen supervisor” that require more skills and hours — making them more attractive to job seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s allowed us to be more competitive,” said Erin Primer, director of food and nutrition services for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tia Orr, executive director of the Services Employees International Union California — which represents both school food service workers and fast-food employees — said school districts and other service industries must consider raising wages because of this new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good thing, and it is long overdue,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some districts are limited in what they can do. In the Lynwood Unified School District in Los Angeles County, the starting salary for food service workers is $17.70 per hour and maxes out at $21.51 per hour, according to Gretchen Janson, the district’s assistant superintendent of business services. She said these workers only work three hours per day, meaning they aren’t eligible for health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janson says the district is waiting to see how employees react, adding: “We just don’t have the increase in revenue to be able to provide additional funding for staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuria Alvarenga has worked food service in the Lynwood School District for 20 years. She makes $21 per hour now, but said she could likely earn more in fast food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said several co-workers were considering finding other jobs, she hasn’t decided yet what she will do. She normally works at an elementary school, but has been filling in recently at a high school where she enjoys seeing former students recognize her as they stand in line for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so glad they still remember me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School food service workers have gotten more support in recent years under a state push to expand school meals and make them more nutritious. That included $720 million in recent years for upgrades to school kitchens to better prepare fresh meals, plus $45 million to create an apprenticeship program to professionalize the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be difficult for lawmakers to mandate a raise for school food workers given the complexities of the state’s school funding formula. That’s why some advocacy groups, including the Chef Ann Foundation, proposed a state-funded incentive program that would have given school food workers who completed an apprenticeship program a $25,000 bonus payable over five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea didn’t make it into Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal released in January. The state is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-gavin-newsom-public-schools-deficit-f98ad09c8bdf6df07f1998cd057e77c8\">multibillion-dollar budget deficit\u003c/a>, limiting new spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pay raises aren’t the only incentives school districts can offer. There’s also health insurance, paid vacation, no night or weekend shifts and a pension that could guarantee a monthly income after retirement. Plus, school food workers have predictable hours, letting them work other jobs if they wish — or in summer when school is out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restaurants are laying off employees. They’re cutting hours,” said Eric Span, director of nutrition services for the Sweetwater Union High School District in San Diego County. “I think we should position ourselves to really talk about some stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Reich, a labor economics professor at UC Berkeley, said those factors could favor school districts when competing for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working in a school cafeteria gives you more stability, job security and maybe less stress than in a profit-making institution,” he said. “So there’s a lot of advantages from a community standpoint. But that’s not to say they don’t also want to get more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new law took effect Monday and guarantees $20-per-hour wages for fast-food workers in California. The law does not apply to food service workers at public schools. 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That doesn’t include school food service workers, historically some of the lowest-paid workers in public education.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are looking not only at competing with districts and comparing with districts, we’re also looking at fast-food places.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Cancy McArn, chief human resources officer, Sacramento Unified School District","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Yet demand for school meals is higher than ever in California, the first state to guarantee \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-health-government-and-politics-education-california-b959171f408b549eb46376998c02ac2c\">free meals for all students\u003c/a> regardless of their family’s income. And demand is projected to fuel an increase of more than 70 million extra meals in California schools this year compared to 2018, according to the state Department of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these jobs typically have lots of turnover and are harder to fill. The minimum wage boost for fast-food workers could make that even more difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are all very worried about it. Most are saying they anticipate it will be harder and harder to hire employees,” said Carrie Bogdanovich, president of the California School Nutrition Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, some districts have already taken steps to compete in the new reality. Last year, the Sacramento Unified School District — anticipating the law’s passage — agreed to a 10% increase for its food service workers and other low-paying jobs, followed by another 6% increase July 1 of this year to bump their wages up to $20 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11975340,news_11977956,news_11974073","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cancy McArn, the district’s chief human resources officer, said it was the largest single raise in the district in nearly three decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are looking not only at competing with districts and comparing with districts, we’re also looking at fast-food places,” McArn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, San Luis Coastal Unified doubled its food service staff to 40 people after seeing a 52% increase in the number of students eating school meals. The district prepares 8,500 meals daily for 7,600 students across 15 school sites — breakfast, lunch and even supper options for youth in after-school sports and activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since limited the number of its entry-level positions, which are the hardest to fill, while seeking to hire more for complex roles like “culinary lead” and “central kitchen supervisor” that require more skills and hours — making them more attractive to job seekers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s allowed us to be more competitive,” said Erin Primer, director of food and nutrition services for the San Luis Coastal Unified School District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tia Orr, executive director of the Services Employees International Union California — which represents both school food service workers and fast-food employees — said school districts and other service industries must consider raising wages because of this new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a good thing, and it is long overdue,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some districts are limited in what they can do. In the Lynwood Unified School District in Los Angeles County, the starting salary for food service workers is $17.70 per hour and maxes out at $21.51 per hour, according to Gretchen Janson, the district’s assistant superintendent of business services. She said these workers only work three hours per day, meaning they aren’t eligible for health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Janson says the district is waiting to see how employees react, adding: “We just don’t have the increase in revenue to be able to provide additional funding for staff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nuria Alvarenga has worked food service in the Lynwood School District for 20 years. She makes $21 per hour now, but said she could likely earn more in fast food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While she said several co-workers were considering finding other jobs, she hasn’t decided yet what she will do. She normally works at an elementary school, but has been filling in recently at a high school where she enjoys seeing former students recognize her as they stand in line for lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so glad they still remember me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School food service workers have gotten more support in recent years under a state push to expand school meals and make them more nutritious. That included $720 million in recent years for upgrades to school kitchens to better prepare fresh meals, plus $45 million to create an apprenticeship program to professionalize the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be difficult for lawmakers to mandate a raise for school food workers given the complexities of the state’s school funding formula. That’s why some advocacy groups, including the Chef Ann Foundation, proposed a state-funded incentive program that would have given school food workers who completed an apprenticeship program a $25,000 bonus payable over five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That idea didn’t make it into Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal released in January. The state is facing a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-gavin-newsom-public-schools-deficit-f98ad09c8bdf6df07f1998cd057e77c8\">multibillion-dollar budget deficit\u003c/a>, limiting new spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But pay raises aren’t the only incentives school districts can offer. There’s also health insurance, paid vacation, no night or weekend shifts and a pension that could guarantee a monthly income after retirement. Plus, school food workers have predictable hours, letting them work other jobs if they wish — or in summer when school is out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Restaurants are laying off employees. They’re cutting hours,” said Eric Span, director of nutrition services for the Sweetwater Union High School District in San Diego County. “I think we should position ourselves to really talk about some stability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Reich, a labor economics professor at UC Berkeley, said those factors could favor school districts when competing for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working in a school cafeteria gives you more stability, job security and maybe less stress than in a profit-making institution,” he said. “So there’s a lot of advantages from a community standpoint. But that’s not to say they don’t also want to get more money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981932/california-schools-may-have-to-compete-with-fast-food-industry-after-minimum-wage-hike","authors":["byline_news_11981932"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_30911","news_29044","news_19904","news_2141"],"featImg":"news_11981933","label":"news"},"news_11980719":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980719","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980719","score":null,"sort":[1711409723000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"health-care-for-health-care-workers-hundreds-stage-2-day-strike-at-daly-city-hospital","title":"‘Health Care for Health Care Workers’: Hundreds Stage 2-Day Strike at Daly City Hospital","publishDate":1711409723,"format":"standard","headTitle":"‘Health Care for Health Care Workers’: Hundreds Stage 2-Day Strike at Daly City Hospital | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Hundreds of workers at AHMC Seton Medical Center in Daly City walked off the job on Monday as part of a two-day strike to demand the hospital reverse changes it recently made to their health care plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re striking for better medical benefits, something that actually covers our families, that pays the bills,” said Christina Caridis, an X-ray technician, who was among the throng of hospital staff on the picket line hoisting signs that said “Health Care for Health Care Workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have outstanding bills; we’ve gone to collections, and these are bills that they (the hospital) were supposed to pay,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union representing the workers said the hospital’s administration dramatically changed health care options at the beginning of the year after workers’ previous contract expired, forcing them to pay up to $6,000 a year to maintain their coverage or accept a new plan with limited access to local doctors and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about my family, my kids not having basic insurance that works,” said Juliya Vinogradsky, a respiratory therapist at Seton, noting that the new, more affordable plan has very few options for local care. “The closest doctors are about 45 minutes to an hour’s drive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day strike, expected to continue through Tuesday, follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/seton-nurses-call-for-better-working-conditions/article_66cb8e32-1eaf-11ed-8290-cfd8dd2926c1.html\">a number of previous labor disputes at the facility\u003c/a> since 2020 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/14/ahmc-healthcare-finalizes-purchase-of-seton-medical-center/\">AHMC Healthcare purchased the hospital\u003c/a> out of bankruptcy. Since then, the Los Angeles-based company has “gutted patient care services and initiated several rounds of layoffs, cutting non-nurse staffing by nearly 25%,” according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents more than 400 Seton workers, including nursing assistants, licensed vocational nurses, respiratory therapists, housekeepers and medical technicians.[aside label=\"more health coverage\" tag=\"health\"]The union is still negotiating a new contract with the company and said that while it’s “near agreement” on wages, it won’t consider any deal that doesn’t fully restore workers’ health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am mainly here for better health care. This health insurance affects my 6-month-old daughter,” said Rachelle Ortua, a material management technician at Seton, who joined the picket line on Monday. “I’m not even worried about myself. I’m only worried about my daughter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortua said she and her daughter now have to drive at least 45 minutes to see a pediatrician who is covered by her new insurance plan. And the closest hospital with emergency pediatric care, she said, is even further away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have chronic asthma, and I’m afraid my daughter has it,” Ortua said. “If she has it and she needs to get admitted, you’re telling me that [with] this health care, I have to travel an hour and a half away for her to be admitted into the hospital? I’m not OK with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union also said it fears that AHMC plans to further drain resources and eventually shutter the safety-net hospital that has primarily served lower-income immigrant communities in northern San Mateo County and San Francisco for generations. When it purchased the hospital in August 2020, the company, in an agreement with the state, committed to keeping it open for at least five and a half years — roughly midway through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Seton’s administrator said concerns about its commitment to the well-being of its workers and patients are unfounded, calling the strike “unnecessary.” It accused the union of prioritizing “a contract negotiating tactic over patient and community care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital has offered workers “outstanding wages and extraordinary medical benefits,” including 16% pay increases over three years, the option of free medical benefits for employees and their families, and a generous paid time off package, Seton said in a statement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since purchasing Seton in August 2020, when the facility “teetered on the edge of closure,” AMHC has pledged to keep the hospital open and make it financially viable by investing $100 million in repairs and upgrades and undertaking a $75 million seismic retrofit, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working diligently to ensure Northern San Mateo County has a community hospital for years to come,” Sarkis Vartanian, the hospital’s head administrator, said in the statement. “My focus has been to provide high-quality, affordable care that meets the needs of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many workers and local officials said the current state of the hospital suggests otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re supposed to get new equipment and they didn’t get new equipment,” said Daly City Councilmember Pamela DiGiovanni, who joined workers on the picket line on Monday. “One of the doctors told me the bulbs are out in some of the operating rooms. It’s just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiGiovanni said she’s been calling Vartanian about these issues “three times a day, and he has not called me back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital operators have failed to “fix and repair equipment that we need and provide the resources that we need to treat our patients,” Caridis, the X-ray technician, added. “In my personal specialty, I have no equipment to do the procedures that I need to do on a safe basis. We cancel a lot of patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers like Ortua, the material management technician, acknowledged that the hospital is a business with financial constraints but said penalizing its workers and patients is both unethical and foolhardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand trying to save money but treating your employees this way, you’ll never save money that way,” she said. “You’re going to lose people and end up losing the hospital. The least you can do is provide us with proper health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sydney Johnson and Matthew Green contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The union representing more than 400 workers at Seton Medical Center is still negotiating a new contract with the hospital and said that while it’s 'near agreement' on wages, it won’t consider any deal that doesn’t fully restore the previous health benefits package. \r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711511144,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1026},"headData":{"title":"‘Health Care for Health Care Workers’: Hundreds Stage 2-Day Strike at Daly City Hospital | KQED","description":"The union representing more than 400 workers at Seton Medical Center is still negotiating a new contract with the hospital and said that while it’s 'near agreement' on wages, it won’t consider any deal that doesn’t fully restore the previous health benefits package. \r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/2d657529-5e20-43e8-a07f-b13f01796488/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11980719/health-care-for-health-care-workers-hundreds-stage-2-day-strike-at-daly-city-hospital","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of workers at AHMC Seton Medical Center in Daly City walked off the job on Monday as part of a two-day strike to demand the hospital reverse changes it recently made to their health care plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re striking for better medical benefits, something that actually covers our families, that pays the bills,” said Christina Caridis, an X-ray technician, who was among the throng of hospital staff on the picket line hoisting signs that said “Health Care for Health Care Workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have outstanding bills; we’ve gone to collections, and these are bills that they (the hospital) were supposed to pay,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union representing the workers said the hospital’s administration dramatically changed health care options at the beginning of the year after workers’ previous contract expired, forcing them to pay up to $6,000 a year to maintain their coverage or accept a new plan with limited access to local doctors and hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m worried about my family, my kids not having basic insurance that works,” said Juliya Vinogradsky, a respiratory therapist at Seton, noting that the new, more affordable plan has very few options for local care. “The closest doctors are about 45 minutes to an hour’s drive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two-day strike, expected to continue through Tuesday, follows \u003ca href=\"https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/seton-nurses-call-for-better-working-conditions/article_66cb8e32-1eaf-11ed-8290-cfd8dd2926c1.html\">a number of previous labor disputes at the facility\u003c/a> since 2020 when \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/14/ahmc-healthcare-finalizes-purchase-of-seton-medical-center/\">AHMC Healthcare purchased the hospital\u003c/a> out of bankruptcy. Since then, the Los Angeles-based company has “gutted patient care services and initiated several rounds of layoffs, cutting non-nurse staffing by nearly 25%,” according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents more than 400 Seton workers, including nursing assistants, licensed vocational nurses, respiratory therapists, housekeepers and medical technicians.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more health coverage ","tag":"health"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The union is still negotiating a new contract with the company and said that while it’s “near agreement” on wages, it won’t consider any deal that doesn’t fully restore workers’ health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am mainly here for better health care. This health insurance affects my 6-month-old daughter,” said Rachelle Ortua, a material management technician at Seton, who joined the picket line on Monday. “I’m not even worried about myself. I’m only worried about my daughter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ortua said she and her daughter now have to drive at least 45 minutes to see a pediatrician who is covered by her new insurance plan. And the closest hospital with emergency pediatric care, she said, is even further away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have chronic asthma, and I’m afraid my daughter has it,” Ortua said. “If she has it and she needs to get admitted, you’re telling me that [with] this health care, I have to travel an hour and a half away for her to be admitted into the hospital? I’m not OK with that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union also said it fears that AHMC plans to further drain resources and eventually shutter the safety-net hospital that has primarily served lower-income immigrant communities in northern San Mateo County and San Francisco for generations. When it purchased the hospital in August 2020, the company, in an agreement with the state, committed to keeping it open for at least five and a half years — roughly midway through 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Seton’s administrator said concerns about its commitment to the well-being of its workers and patients are unfounded, calling the strike “unnecessary.” It accused the union of prioritizing “a contract negotiating tactic over patient and community care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital has offered workers “outstanding wages and extraordinary medical benefits,” including 16% pay increases over three years, the option of free medical benefits for employees and their families, and a generous paid time off package, Seton said in a statement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since purchasing Seton in August 2020, when the facility “teetered on the edge of closure,” AMHC has pledged to keep the hospital open and make it financially viable by investing $100 million in repairs and upgrades and undertaking a $75 million seismic retrofit, the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been working diligently to ensure Northern San Mateo County has a community hospital for years to come,” Sarkis Vartanian, the hospital’s head administrator, said in the statement. “My focus has been to provide high-quality, affordable care that meets the needs of our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many workers and local officials said the current state of the hospital suggests otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re supposed to get new equipment and they didn’t get new equipment,” said Daly City Councilmember Pamela DiGiovanni, who joined workers on the picket line on Monday. “One of the doctors told me the bulbs are out in some of the operating rooms. It’s just terrible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DiGiovanni said she’s been calling Vartanian about these issues “three times a day, and he has not called me back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital operators have failed to “fix and repair equipment that we need and provide the resources that we need to treat our patients,” Caridis, the X-ray technician, added. “In my personal specialty, I have no equipment to do the procedures that I need to do on a safe basis. We cancel a lot of patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers like Ortua, the material management technician, acknowledged that the hospital is a business with financial constraints but said penalizing its workers and patients is both unethical and foolhardy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I understand trying to save money but treating your employees this way, you’ll never save money that way,” she said. “You’re going to lose people and end up losing the hospital. The least you can do is provide us with proper health care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Sydney Johnson and Matthew Green contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980719/health-care-for-health-care-workers-hundreds-stage-2-day-strike-at-daly-city-hospital","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_18543","news_683","news_19904","news_32652","news_33925"],"featImg":"news_11980724","label":"news"},"news_11976710":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976710","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976710","score":null,"sort":[1708632024000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"waiting-and-sweltering-why-are-californias-indoor-heat-protections-for-workers-5-years-late","title":"Why It's Taken 5 Years for California Workers to Get Indoor Heat Protection","publishDate":1708632024,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why It’s Taken 5 Years for California Workers to Get Indoor Heat Protection | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After sorting and loading packages through a 100-plus-degree heat wave at an Inland Empire Amazon air freight hub last July, workers and their advocates called California’s workplace safety agency to complain of unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors came out, and in a citation issued in January and announced this week, agreed with the workers: The online retail giant hadn’t done enough to address the heat for those working outside on the tarmac and had committed “serious” safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But workers didn’t get all the accountability they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA dismissed nearly half their complaints — the ones alleging hot working conditions inside the warehouses. One possible reason: While California requires employers to reduce the risks of heat illness for outdoor workers, a comparable rule still isn’t on the books for indoor workers. And though state lawmakers ordered one in 2016 and set a 2019 deadline, it won’t be until next month when the state is finally expected to adopt a rule to go into effect by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shane Gusman, lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during discussions\"]‘There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this. It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.’[/pullquote]Excessive heat can cause nausea, vomiting, fainting, and, in the most extreme cases, heat stroke, leading to organ damage or death. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from indoor heat from 2010 through 2017. In recent years, summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/these-southern-california-temperatures-are-now-the-highest-ever-recorded/\">across southern California\u003c/a> have broken historical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon disputed the citation and said it is appealing. It said that its San Bernardino air hub is air-conditioned, workers are encouraged to take breaks, and the company generally supports an indoor heat standard. It declined to comment on the state’s proposed rule. “We’ve seen the positive impacts of an effective heat mitigation program and believe all employers should be held to the same standard as we have proactively set,” company spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why a state rule has taken so long — even with lives at stake — is to take a journey through the byzantine world of administrative rulemaking in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters review found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The 2016 law gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> the option to adopt an indoor heat rule targeted at certain industries, but the agency wrote a broad one, prompting immediate pushback from a wide swath of employers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Cal/OSHA advisory committee took employer and worker input and drafted a rule by the 2019 deadline, but it had to be submitted to a little-known state workplace safety board for approval;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, that safety board, part of the understaffed Department of Industrial Relations, was focused on emergency COVID-19 prevention rules;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before any vote could happen, the rule triggered a requirement in state law for an economic impact study;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state hired two different contractors to complete the economic assessment and didn’t submit the final study until September 2021;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After another year-plus of “detailed consultation” with other agencies, the safety board started its own rulemaking process in March 2023. Still, there have been four public comment periods since — more than most other recent regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/oshsb.html\">Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> is expected to give final approval to the rule at its March 21 meeting, making California the third state with indoor heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approval would come at the last possible minute:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>If there are further amendments and the vote doesn’t happen in March, the workplace safety board’s formal rulemaking process — which can take as long as a year — would have to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this,” said Shane Gusman, a lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during the discussions. “It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in the indoor heat rule\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rule would require employers statewide to provide cooling areas and monitor workers who take cooling breaks for signs of heat illness when indoor workplaces hit 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the temperature hits 87, or if workers wear restrictive clothing or work near a heat source, businesses would have to take further steps: First, to cool the worksite, if feasible. If not, employers must adjust work schedules, slow production, allow more breaks or rotate workers through assignments. They’d have to provide personal fans or cooling vests as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industries expected to be most affected include warehouses, manufacturing and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sara Fee, former Amazon air hub employee\"]‘The humidity inside the building was unbearable. You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.’[/pullquote]Neither advocates for workers nor employers are satisfied with the proposed rule. Workers want to require lower temperatures. Employers said the rule is too complicated, conflicts with the outdoor heat rule and is too broad to apply to vastly different indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this regulation for California employers has been trying to find language that works equally well for an office building, a restaurant kitchen and a storage shed,” said Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ advocates said their top priority now is to get a rule on the books without further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the indoor rule, workers complaining of heat at the Amazon warehouse last summer asked Cal/OSHA to inspect inside under a general rule requiring safe workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The humidity inside the building was unbearable,” said former air hub employee Sara Fee, who helped file the complaint along with the San Bernardino-based Warehouse Worker Resource Center, where she now works. “You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauling packages in and out of truck trailers was the hottest task. The metal containers sitting in the sun easily climbed above 100 degrees, Fee said, and even with air conditioners in the warehouse and fans near the trucks, the trailers “feel like a sauna” with workers in “constant motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a plaid shirt on a black tshirt and a black truckers hat with a map behind her and looking at the camera with a slight smile. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Empire Amazon Workers United founder Sara Fee in front of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario on Feb 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The heat that comes from the trailer almost knocks you over,” Fee said. “We had fans you could turn around and face into the trailers, but you might as well be standing there with a straw in your mouth blowing air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency found no evidence of safety violations indoors, according to the citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon is appealing the outdoor citations and disputed claims about hot working conditions both inside and outside the 660,000-square-foot KSBD facility at San Bernardino International Airport, where about 1,400 workers carry cargo off arriving planes, sort them with the help of large robots and load them onto truck trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lynch Vogel, spokesperson, Amazon\"]‘There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors.’[/pullquote]Amazon spokesperson Lynch Vogel said the facility is fully air-conditioned — unlike many others in the distribution industry — and never hotter than 78 degrees inside. “There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Shadix, legal director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, said he suspects the lack of an indoor heat rule made it more difficult to issue violations inside the warehouse. The prior summer, workers wearing thermometers inside the warehouse and truck trailers reported temperatures of between 75 and 96 degrees and between 80 and 121 on the tarmac — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/amazon-heat-wave-california-work\">a report that\u003c/a> Amazon also disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a clear standard would give more clear indication to employers to take more proactive steps, and if there’s still a need for citations, having explicit standards that are required to be followed will make that process a clearer path for Cal/OSHA,” Shadix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long, hot history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though recent heat waves have made the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/workplace-injuries-rising-temperatures/\">risks of hot workplaces\u003c/a> top-of-mind for policymakers, workers have been pushing for protections for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in factories and even libraries in Southern California were petitioning the state for a general heat standard — indoors and outdoors — as early as the 1980s, said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library branches didn’t have air conditioning yet, and (librarians) got sick in the stacks,” he said. “Then in the subsequent decade or two, a lot of those spaces became air-conditioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the heat-related deaths of four farmworkers prompted California to adopt an outdoor heat illness prevention rule, which requires shade and water when the temperature hits 80 degrees and, for farming and construction work, additional breaks and monitoring when it hits 95. It was the first such rule in the nation; a 2021 study \u003ca href=\"https://docs.iza.org/dp14560.pdf\">suggested it has helped (PDF)\u003c/a> to decrease workplace injuries on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other workers, such as those in the newly booming warehouses of the High Desert and Inland Empire, took up the cause of an indoor heat rule. In 2011, a union representing workers at a Lancaster warehouse secured heat protections in its contract with Rite Aid, but union president Luisa Gratz said as the climate gets hotter, workers need stronger protections in state law, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976719\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers load packages into electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/REUTERS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Teamsters secured a contract with UPS that averted a nationwide strike and that, besides higher pay, included air conditioning in delivery trucks for drivers and additional fans, ice machines and water fountains in buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">20 workers died\u003c/a> from heat illness between 2010 and 2017, seven of them because of indoor heat, according to the Rand Corp., which analyzed the state’s proposed indoor heat rules. Workers compensation data analyzed by Cal/OSHA show between 2010 and 2018 — the hottest decade on record — an average of 185 workers a year claimed injuries from indoor heat, a figure that was rising, and nearly 20% of all workplace heat injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency only recently began separately counting safety complaints that mention indoor heat; it received 194 such complaints in 2022 and 549 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those most likely to experience injuries are younger and male, a likely indication of who is working in industries with the most heat exposure, said Amy Heinzerling, chief of the Emerging Workplace Hazards Unit at the California Department of Public Health. Nearly 10% were injured within the first two weeks on the job, Heinzerling found in another study, highlighting the importance of “gradually increasing worker exposure to hot conditions and really keeping a close eye on them for signs of heat illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/connie-leyva-1967/\">Connie Leyva\u003c/a>, a labor-friendly Democrat from the Inland Empire, introduced the bill for Cal/OSHA to develop an indoor heat rule. It was a direct response to reports of workers falling ill from heat in warehouses concentrated in her district, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially wanted the rule to take effect in 2017 and said in a recent interview she “had no idea that it would take this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did expect it to happen right away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delays in rulemaking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat advisory committee began meeting to draft the rule in February 2017, a wide range of employers pushed back immediately, some questioning the need for an indoor rule at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee met over the next two years, going back and forth on the temperature and whether to consider other factors, such as workers’ activity level and humidity levels in the workplace. Worker advocates wanted an across-the-board 80-degree threshold, while some employers called for stricter protections to kick in only at 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2019, the agency had a draft proposal ready for the workplace safety board to kick off formal rulemaking — a process that can be as short as a few months and as long as one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the delays really began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the rule would have at least $50 million in economic impact, a 2011 state law required a study to be submitted to the Department of Finance. The requirement has irked labor advocates, who argue workplace regulations are already subject to vetting. The Cal/OSHA advisory committee on indoor heat met three times and revised a draft rule seven times before submitting it to the safety board, which also takes comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11956922,news_11969338,news_11886628\"]Leyva, backed by the California Labor Federation, tried in 2017 and 2021 to exempt Cal/OSHA from conducting economic impact studies, saying they slow down regulations that are needed for workers’ safety. Both times, the bill cleared the Senate and then died. Leyva blamed business interests that were hostile to new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the people who were always talking about streamlining things and saying, ‘There’s too much regulation, there’s too many hoops to jump through,’” she said, “We propose a bill that’s going to streamline it, and all of a sudden, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, the Department of Industrial Relations, which houses Cal/OSHA and the occupational safety board, submitted a draft study to the Department of Finance. While that study was underway, the department put out a second contract. It submitted a final study a year and a half later, using the new contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither department explained why two contractors were needed. The final economic impact study conducted by the Rand Corp. estimated that the proposed rule would cost employers statewide $215 million in the first year and about $88 million annually afterward, mostly for employers to install AC or fans or provide cool-down areas. The analysis also predicted the rule would cut indoor workplace heat injuries by 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another year passed. Asked for an explanation for the delay, the Department of Industrial Relations said only that it was talking to other agencies, including the governor’s office, between late 2021 and early 2023. The department responded in a statement Wednesday after weeks of inquiries. It declined to make a representative of the safety board available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a complex rulemaking that required detailed consultation with subject matter experts at various points, which led to further edits and refinements to the documents,” a department spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, then-Assembly Labor chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/ash-kalra-1972/\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a San José Democrat, asked an embattled and understaffed Cal/OSHA about why the rule was taking so long. Director Jeff Killip, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.cal-osha.com/flash-report/dosh-chief-resigns/\">left his post in January\u003c/a>, replied that the pandemic had “diverted our focus,” and the standards board would soon be ready to begin formal rulemaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board, which the governor appoints, kicked off that process in March 2023. Its vote of approval, along with the Department of Finance’s approval of the economic impact document, is among the last steps that are still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Shadix, legal director, Warehouse Worker Resource Center\"]‘The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness. We would like to see it in place for the summer.’[/pullquote]During a public hearing last May, workers pleaded with the board to adopt the rule without further delay. But for the past year, the rule has undergone three more revisions requiring a new public comment period each time, the last of which ended in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, employers have pushed to exempt businesses where workers are only briefly inside a truck, trailer or storage shed. Business groups such as the California Farm Bureau remain upset that the latest exemption doesn’t apply if it’s hotter than 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature in those spaces is going to exceed 95 degrees for much of the year,” said the bureau’s director of labor affairs, Bryan Little. “It’s just not going to be very useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of revisions is unusual compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/apprvd.html\">dozens of other\u003c/a> workplace safety rules approved since 2017. Of those, which ranged from regulations narrowly targeted at a single industry to a wider COVID-19 prevention standard, only one other rule — on protective equipment for firefighters — has undergone as many board revisions as indoor heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ groups are concerned about how the rule will be enforced, with Cal/OSHA currently without a director and suffering vacancy rates of one-third, and the rule only allowing workers’ representatives into unionized worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shadix of the warehouse workers’ center said he just wants to see a rule adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness,” he said. “We would like to see it in place for the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In March, the state is finally set to approve rules to protect workers from excessive heat indoors. Officials busted a 2019 deadline — a delay that demonstrates California's byzantine rulemaking process.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708647695,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":60,"wordCount":3007},"headData":{"title":"Why It's Taken 5 Years for California Workers to Get Indoor Heat Protection | KQED","description":"In March, the state is finally set to approve rules to protect workers from excessive heat indoors. Officials busted a 2019 deadline — a delay that demonstrates California's byzantine rulemaking process.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jeanne-kuang/\">Jeanne Kuang\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976710/waiting-and-sweltering-why-are-californias-indoor-heat-protections-for-workers-5-years-late","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After sorting and loading packages through a 100-plus-degree heat wave at an Inland Empire Amazon air freight hub last July, workers and their advocates called California’s workplace safety agency to complain of unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors came out, and in a citation issued in January and announced this week, agreed with the workers: The online retail giant hadn’t done enough to address the heat for those working outside on the tarmac and had committed “serious” safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But workers didn’t get all the accountability they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA dismissed nearly half their complaints — the ones alleging hot working conditions inside the warehouses. One possible reason: While California requires employers to reduce the risks of heat illness for outdoor workers, a comparable rule still isn’t on the books for indoor workers. And though state lawmakers ordered one in 2016 and set a 2019 deadline, it won’t be until next month when the state is finally expected to adopt a rule to go into effect by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this. It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Shane Gusman, lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during discussions","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Excessive heat can cause nausea, vomiting, fainting, and, in the most extreme cases, heat stroke, leading to organ damage or death. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from indoor heat from 2010 through 2017. In recent years, summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/these-southern-california-temperatures-are-now-the-highest-ever-recorded/\">across southern California\u003c/a> have broken historical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon disputed the citation and said it is appealing. It said that its San Bernardino air hub is air-conditioned, workers are encouraged to take breaks, and the company generally supports an indoor heat standard. It declined to comment on the state’s proposed rule. “We’ve seen the positive impacts of an effective heat mitigation program and believe all employers should be held to the same standard as we have proactively set,” company spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why a state rule has taken so long — even with lives at stake — is to take a journey through the byzantine world of administrative rulemaking in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters review found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The 2016 law gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> the option to adopt an indoor heat rule targeted at certain industries, but the agency wrote a broad one, prompting immediate pushback from a wide swath of employers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Cal/OSHA advisory committee took employer and worker input and drafted a rule by the 2019 deadline, but it had to be submitted to a little-known state workplace safety board for approval;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, that safety board, part of the understaffed Department of Industrial Relations, was focused on emergency COVID-19 prevention rules;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before any vote could happen, the rule triggered a requirement in state law for an economic impact study;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state hired two different contractors to complete the economic assessment and didn’t submit the final study until September 2021;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After another year-plus of “detailed consultation” with other agencies, the safety board started its own rulemaking process in March 2023. Still, there have been four public comment periods since — more than most other recent regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/oshsb.html\">Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> is expected to give final approval to the rule at its March 21 meeting, making California the third state with indoor heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approval would come at the last possible minute:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>If there are further amendments and the vote doesn’t happen in March, the workplace safety board’s formal rulemaking process — which can take as long as a year — would have to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this,” said Shane Gusman, a lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during the discussions. “It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in the indoor heat rule\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rule would require employers statewide to provide cooling areas and monitor workers who take cooling breaks for signs of heat illness when indoor workplaces hit 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the temperature hits 87, or if workers wear restrictive clothing or work near a heat source, businesses would have to take further steps: First, to cool the worksite, if feasible. If not, employers must adjust work schedules, slow production, allow more breaks or rotate workers through assignments. They’d have to provide personal fans or cooling vests as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industries expected to be most affected include warehouses, manufacturing and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The humidity inside the building was unbearable. You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sara Fee, former Amazon air hub employee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Neither advocates for workers nor employers are satisfied with the proposed rule. Workers want to require lower temperatures. Employers said the rule is too complicated, conflicts with the outdoor heat rule and is too broad to apply to vastly different indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this regulation for California employers has been trying to find language that works equally well for an office building, a restaurant kitchen and a storage shed,” said Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ advocates said their top priority now is to get a rule on the books without further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the indoor rule, workers complaining of heat at the Amazon warehouse last summer asked Cal/OSHA to inspect inside under a general rule requiring safe workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The humidity inside the building was unbearable,” said former air hub employee Sara Fee, who helped file the complaint along with the San Bernardino-based Warehouse Worker Resource Center, where she now works. “You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauling packages in and out of truck trailers was the hottest task. The metal containers sitting in the sun easily climbed above 100 degrees, Fee said, and even with air conditioners in the warehouse and fans near the trucks, the trailers “feel like a sauna” with workers in “constant motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a plaid shirt on a black tshirt and a black truckers hat with a map behind her and looking at the camera with a slight smile. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Empire Amazon Workers United founder Sara Fee in front of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario on Feb 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The heat that comes from the trailer almost knocks you over,” Fee said. “We had fans you could turn around and face into the trailers, but you might as well be standing there with a straw in your mouth blowing air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency found no evidence of safety violations indoors, according to the citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon is appealing the outdoor citations and disputed claims about hot working conditions both inside and outside the 660,000-square-foot KSBD facility at San Bernardino International Airport, where about 1,400 workers carry cargo off arriving planes, sort them with the help of large robots and load them onto truck trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Lynch Vogel, spokesperson, Amazon","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Lynch Vogel said the facility is fully air-conditioned — unlike many others in the distribution industry — and never hotter than 78 degrees inside. “There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Shadix, legal director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, said he suspects the lack of an indoor heat rule made it more difficult to issue violations inside the warehouse. The prior summer, workers wearing thermometers inside the warehouse and truck trailers reported temperatures of between 75 and 96 degrees and between 80 and 121 on the tarmac — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/amazon-heat-wave-california-work\">a report that\u003c/a> Amazon also disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a clear standard would give more clear indication to employers to take more proactive steps, and if there’s still a need for citations, having explicit standards that are required to be followed will make that process a clearer path for Cal/OSHA,” Shadix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long, hot history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though recent heat waves have made the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/workplace-injuries-rising-temperatures/\">risks of hot workplaces\u003c/a> top-of-mind for policymakers, workers have been pushing for protections for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in factories and even libraries in Southern California were petitioning the state for a general heat standard — indoors and outdoors — as early as the 1980s, said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library branches didn’t have air conditioning yet, and (librarians) got sick in the stacks,” he said. “Then in the subsequent decade or two, a lot of those spaces became air-conditioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the heat-related deaths of four farmworkers prompted California to adopt an outdoor heat illness prevention rule, which requires shade and water when the temperature hits 80 degrees and, for farming and construction work, additional breaks and monitoring when it hits 95. It was the first such rule in the nation; a 2021 study \u003ca href=\"https://docs.iza.org/dp14560.pdf\">suggested it has helped (PDF)\u003c/a> to decrease workplace injuries on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other workers, such as those in the newly booming warehouses of the High Desert and Inland Empire, took up the cause of an indoor heat rule. In 2011, a union representing workers at a Lancaster warehouse secured heat protections in its contract with Rite Aid, but union president Luisa Gratz said as the climate gets hotter, workers need stronger protections in state law, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976719\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers load packages into electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/REUTERS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Teamsters secured a contract with UPS that averted a nationwide strike and that, besides higher pay, included air conditioning in delivery trucks for drivers and additional fans, ice machines and water fountains in buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">20 workers died\u003c/a> from heat illness between 2010 and 2017, seven of them because of indoor heat, according to the Rand Corp., which analyzed the state’s proposed indoor heat rules. Workers compensation data analyzed by Cal/OSHA show between 2010 and 2018 — the hottest decade on record — an average of 185 workers a year claimed injuries from indoor heat, a figure that was rising, and nearly 20% of all workplace heat injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency only recently began separately counting safety complaints that mention indoor heat; it received 194 such complaints in 2022 and 549 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those most likely to experience injuries are younger and male, a likely indication of who is working in industries with the most heat exposure, said Amy Heinzerling, chief of the Emerging Workplace Hazards Unit at the California Department of Public Health. Nearly 10% were injured within the first two weeks on the job, Heinzerling found in another study, highlighting the importance of “gradually increasing worker exposure to hot conditions and really keeping a close eye on them for signs of heat illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/connie-leyva-1967/\">Connie Leyva\u003c/a>, a labor-friendly Democrat from the Inland Empire, introduced the bill for Cal/OSHA to develop an indoor heat rule. It was a direct response to reports of workers falling ill from heat in warehouses concentrated in her district, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially wanted the rule to take effect in 2017 and said in a recent interview she “had no idea that it would take this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did expect it to happen right away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delays in rulemaking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat advisory committee began meeting to draft the rule in February 2017, a wide range of employers pushed back immediately, some questioning the need for an indoor rule at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee met over the next two years, going back and forth on the temperature and whether to consider other factors, such as workers’ activity level and humidity levels in the workplace. Worker advocates wanted an across-the-board 80-degree threshold, while some employers called for stricter protections to kick in only at 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2019, the agency had a draft proposal ready for the workplace safety board to kick off formal rulemaking — a process that can be as short as a few months and as long as one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the delays really began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the rule would have at least $50 million in economic impact, a 2011 state law required a study to be submitted to the Department of Finance. The requirement has irked labor advocates, who argue workplace regulations are already subject to vetting. The Cal/OSHA advisory committee on indoor heat met three times and revised a draft rule seven times before submitting it to the safety board, which also takes comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11956922,news_11969338,news_11886628"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Leyva, backed by the California Labor Federation, tried in 2017 and 2021 to exempt Cal/OSHA from conducting economic impact studies, saying they slow down regulations that are needed for workers’ safety. Both times, the bill cleared the Senate and then died. Leyva blamed business interests that were hostile to new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the people who were always talking about streamlining things and saying, ‘There’s too much regulation, there’s too many hoops to jump through,’” she said, “We propose a bill that’s going to streamline it, and all of a sudden, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, the Department of Industrial Relations, which houses Cal/OSHA and the occupational safety board, submitted a draft study to the Department of Finance. While that study was underway, the department put out a second contract. It submitted a final study a year and a half later, using the new contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither department explained why two contractors were needed. The final economic impact study conducted by the Rand Corp. estimated that the proposed rule would cost employers statewide $215 million in the first year and about $88 million annually afterward, mostly for employers to install AC or fans or provide cool-down areas. The analysis also predicted the rule would cut indoor workplace heat injuries by 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another year passed. Asked for an explanation for the delay, the Department of Industrial Relations said only that it was talking to other agencies, including the governor’s office, between late 2021 and early 2023. The department responded in a statement Wednesday after weeks of inquiries. It declined to make a representative of the safety board available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a complex rulemaking that required detailed consultation with subject matter experts at various points, which led to further edits and refinements to the documents,” a department spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, then-Assembly Labor chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/ash-kalra-1972/\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a San José Democrat, asked an embattled and understaffed Cal/OSHA about why the rule was taking so long. Director Jeff Killip, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.cal-osha.com/flash-report/dosh-chief-resigns/\">left his post in January\u003c/a>, replied that the pandemic had “diverted our focus,” and the standards board would soon be ready to begin formal rulemaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board, which the governor appoints, kicked off that process in March 2023. Its vote of approval, along with the Department of Finance’s approval of the economic impact document, is among the last steps that are still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness. We would like to see it in place for the summer.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Tim Shadix, legal director, Warehouse Worker Resource Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During a public hearing last May, workers pleaded with the board to adopt the rule without further delay. But for the past year, the rule has undergone three more revisions requiring a new public comment period each time, the last of which ended in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, employers have pushed to exempt businesses where workers are only briefly inside a truck, trailer or storage shed. Business groups such as the California Farm Bureau remain upset that the latest exemption doesn’t apply if it’s hotter than 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature in those spaces is going to exceed 95 degrees for much of the year,” said the bureau’s director of labor affairs, Bryan Little. “It’s just not going to be very useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of revisions is unusual compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/apprvd.html\">dozens of other\u003c/a> workplace safety rules approved since 2017. Of those, which ranged from regulations narrowly targeted at a single industry to a wider COVID-19 prevention standard, only one other rule — on protective equipment for firefighters — has undergone as many board revisions as indoor heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ groups are concerned about how the rule will be enforced, with Cal/OSHA currently without a director and suffering vacancy rates of one-third, and the rule only allowing workers’ representatives into unionized worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shadix of the warehouse workers’ center said he just wants to see a rule adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness,” he said. “We would like to see it in place for the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976710/waiting-and-sweltering-why-are-californias-indoor-heat-protections-for-workers-5-years-late","authors":["byline_news_11976710"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6145","news_255","news_27626","news_2929","news_19904","news_4569"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11976711","label":"news_18481"},"news_11975340":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11975340","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11975340","score":null,"sort":[1707663607000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-fast-food-workers-gain-new-first-of-its-kind-union-to-represent-them","title":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers","publishDate":1707663607,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California’s fast-food workers have a new union to advocate for higher pay and safer working conditions, organizers announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of workers statewide will be able to join the California Fast Food Workers Union, an organization that will likely represent a small share of workers but advocate for all fast-food employees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization doesn’t have the same \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-fast-food-bill-tests-labor-laws/\">collective bargaining \u003c/a>power of traditional unions, but it will be affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, a traditional union that represents workers in various industries and for more than a decade has fought to raise pay at fast-food restaurants. Recently it helped secure a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/09/minimum-wage-california/\">$20-an-hour \u003c/a>minimum wage for all fast-food workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president, Service Employees International Union\"]‘Today is a historic day … The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.’[/pullquote]“Today is a historic day in the launching of the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. fast-food workers union,” said Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union. “The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who join will pay $20 monthly in membership dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union won’t be able to negotiate contracts with individual employers, but it will be able to advocate for better working conditions across the industry through a recently created statewide fast-food council in a process similar to typical union bargaining, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Service Employees International Union won a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">major victory\u003c/a> with the passage of a law that created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/california-fast-food-council-2/\">fast-food labor council \u003c/a>that will set working conditions and standards in California and increase the minimum wage for fast workers to $20 starting in April. The fast-food council will elect representatives and begin meeting by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint 11 representatives to the council, including fast-food workers and restaurant industry representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fast-food-workers-sign-up-in-la\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast-food workers sign up in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers from across the state gathered at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee’s Phoenix Hall on Friday in Los Angeles to learn about their new union, begin the sign-up process and discuss potential priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers were enthusiastic about how the union could support them in solving a range of issues they deal with, because they’ve already seen change with their involvement in the national Fight for $15 movement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The Fight for $15 launched in 2012 when 200 fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City to demand $15 an hour and union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways the new union is a formalization of the work the Fight for $15 movement has been doing for years, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Fight for $15, workers advocated for the 2016 law that set California on a path to a $15 minimum wage and they pushed to create the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically Fight for $15 has used tactics like doing one-day strikes and other actions on employers, as well as pushing for public policy that benefits fast-food workers,” Jacobs said. “I expect the fast-food workers union to do very similar sorts of actions. The change here is to codify this into a membership organization where workers are paying dues. It’s their organization, and they are formally part of the Service Employees International Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of union, often called a minority union, is not unusual, he said. Another example of a minority union is the Communication Workers of America’s \u003ca href=\"https://cwad9.org/workplaces/t-mobile\">union for T-Mobile workers\u003c/a>, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fast-food workers will have a unique opportunity to implement desired changes through the fast-food council, a mechanism that other minority unions don’t have, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing mostly purple shirts celebrates and applauds. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers applaud a panel lead by Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of SEIU, at the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, a McDonald’s worker, said the new union is the culmination of years of effort. She said her involvement in organizing with the Fight for $15 campaign had already improved conditions at work, and that with the new union, employers will be less likely to retaliate or push back against employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years,” she said. “That’s what we’re celebrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chain restaurants are notoriously difficult to unionize because of high employee turnover and because the restaurant corporations are often not direct employers of the workers. Even when restaurants are able to unionize, such as Starbucks stores, corporations often employ delay tactics that make bargaining difficult, like shutting down stores, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, McDonald’s worker\"]‘Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years. That’s what we’re celebrating.’[/pullquote]“Is the endgame to build enough power in the industry to try to win collective bargaining, or to build and strengthen the fast-food worker council and ultimately have some form of sectoral bargaining through the state?” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said gaining and keeping strong union membership will also be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the union’s goal is simple: to make restaurants safe and sustainable places to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an economic justice fight, a racial justice fight,” he said. “We feel today marks a new chapter in being able to lift the standards for so many families throughout California who are primarily Black, Brown and female.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-restaurants-warn-of-higher-costs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restaurants warn of higher costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/09/the-seius-fake-fast-food-union/\">publicity stunt\u003c/a> and that the union will struggle to gain members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, called the California Fast Food Workers Union a “face-saving exercise” by the Service Employees International Union. The institute, based in Washington DC, has argued for lower minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975229,news_11974073,news_11962737\"]The Service Employees International Union “needs something to show for the significant investments it has made in California and nationally, even if this new creation is primarily a lobbying and public relations vehicle,” Saltsman said. “However, it’s unclear who or what this new group speaks for, outside of Service Employees International Union leadership or the small number of aligned employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saltsman added, the union ensures the likelihood that at least four seats on the fast-food council — two seats for workers and two for worker representatives — are controlled by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage increases for workers will likely lead to higher prices for consumers, said Jeff Hanscom, vice president of state and local government relations for the International Franchise Association, which represents restaurant chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local restaurant owners are pillars of their communities and proud of their commitment to employees, including the new $20/hour wage increase starting April 1,” he said in a statement. “However, that increase will add about $250,000 to the operating cost of each restaurant. Food prices will have to go up, customers will feel it, and restaurant owners will look for other ways to manage the additional cost while also keeping their small businesses afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-workers-want\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What workers want\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite a strong turnout at Friday’s event, workers said there’s still a lot more work to do to bring other employees on board because many of their colleagues express fears of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are scared,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste Perez, a Burger King worker in San José, said she signed up to be a union member days ago without thinking twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth it,” she said. “We don’t have anything: health insurance, paid vacation. We don’t see our loved ones enough. We just work all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers outlined a few priorities for the union: In addition to annual wage increases and seeking better work schedules, the union plans to introduce local ordinances in San José and Los Angeles to strengthen job protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg\" alt='A banner that says \"Fast Food Justice Ahora [Now]\" ' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner outside the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Gonzalez, a Subway employee, said she feels confident the new union will offer strong support and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have violence at work, I know they’re going to support us in the protections we fight for. We have a lot of things we want to accomplish,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said a priority for her will be consistent wage increases. While she’s grateful for the $20 wage increase, she knows it won’t keep up with the rising cost of living in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a formal union, workers said they’re hopeful their hesitant colleagues will sign up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started, we were very few,” Gonzalez said. “Maybe people will lose some fear because they see that nothing happens to us when we organize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Fast Food Workers Union promises to advocate for better conditions and higher pay for all fast-food workers. But some say the union will cause prices to rise.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707601422,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1654},"headData":{"title":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers | KQED","description":"The California Fast Food Workers Union promises to advocate for better conditions and higher pay for all fast-food workers. But some say the union will cause prices to rise.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/alejandra-reyesvelarde/\">Alejandra Reyes-Velarde\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11975340/california-fast-food-workers-gain-new-first-of-its-kind-union-to-represent-them","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s fast-food workers have a new union to advocate for higher pay and safer working conditions, organizers announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of workers statewide will be able to join the California Fast Food Workers Union, an organization that will likely represent a small share of workers but advocate for all fast-food employees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization doesn’t have the same \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-fast-food-bill-tests-labor-laws/\">collective bargaining \u003c/a>power of traditional unions, but it will be affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, a traditional union that represents workers in various industries and for more than a decade has fought to raise pay at fast-food restaurants. Recently it helped secure a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/09/minimum-wage-california/\">$20-an-hour \u003c/a>minimum wage for all fast-food workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Today is a historic day … The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president, Service Employees International Union","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Today is a historic day in the launching of the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. fast-food workers union,” said Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union. “The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who join will pay $20 monthly in membership dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union won’t be able to negotiate contracts with individual employers, but it will be able to advocate for better working conditions across the industry through a recently created statewide fast-food council in a process similar to typical union bargaining, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Service Employees International Union won a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">major victory\u003c/a> with the passage of a law that created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/california-fast-food-council-2/\">fast-food labor council \u003c/a>that will set working conditions and standards in California and increase the minimum wage for fast workers to $20 starting in April. The fast-food council will elect representatives and begin meeting by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint 11 representatives to the council, including fast-food workers and restaurant industry representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fast-food-workers-sign-up-in-la\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast-food workers sign up in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers from across the state gathered at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee’s Phoenix Hall on Friday in Los Angeles to learn about their new union, begin the sign-up process and discuss potential priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers were enthusiastic about how the union could support them in solving a range of issues they deal with, because they’ve already seen change with their involvement in the national Fight for $15 movement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The Fight for $15 launched in 2012 when 200 fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City to demand $15 an hour and union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways the new union is a formalization of the work the Fight for $15 movement has been doing for years, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Fight for $15, workers advocated for the 2016 law that set California on a path to a $15 minimum wage and they pushed to create the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically Fight for $15 has used tactics like doing one-day strikes and other actions on employers, as well as pushing for public policy that benefits fast-food workers,” Jacobs said. “I expect the fast-food workers union to do very similar sorts of actions. The change here is to codify this into a membership organization where workers are paying dues. It’s their organization, and they are formally part of the Service Employees International Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of union, often called a minority union, is not unusual, he said. Another example of a minority union is the Communication Workers of America’s \u003ca href=\"https://cwad9.org/workplaces/t-mobile\">union for T-Mobile workers\u003c/a>, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fast-food workers will have a unique opportunity to implement desired changes through the fast-food council, a mechanism that other minority unions don’t have, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing mostly purple shirts celebrates and applauds. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers applaud a panel lead by Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of SEIU, at the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, a McDonald’s worker, said the new union is the culmination of years of effort. She said her involvement in organizing with the Fight for $15 campaign had already improved conditions at work, and that with the new union, employers will be less likely to retaliate or push back against employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years,” she said. “That’s what we’re celebrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chain restaurants are notoriously difficult to unionize because of high employee turnover and because the restaurant corporations are often not direct employers of the workers. Even when restaurants are able to unionize, such as Starbucks stores, corporations often employ delay tactics that make bargaining difficult, like shutting down stores, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years. That’s what we’re celebrating.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, McDonald’s worker","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Is the endgame to build enough power in the industry to try to win collective bargaining, or to build and strengthen the fast-food worker council and ultimately have some form of sectoral bargaining through the state?” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said gaining and keeping strong union membership will also be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the union’s goal is simple: to make restaurants safe and sustainable places to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an economic justice fight, a racial justice fight,” he said. “We feel today marks a new chapter in being able to lift the standards for so many families throughout California who are primarily Black, Brown and female.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-restaurants-warn-of-higher-costs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restaurants warn of higher costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/09/the-seius-fake-fast-food-union/\">publicity stunt\u003c/a> and that the union will struggle to gain members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, called the California Fast Food Workers Union a “face-saving exercise” by the Service Employees International Union. The institute, based in Washington DC, has argued for lower minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11975229,news_11974073,news_11962737"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Service Employees International Union “needs something to show for the significant investments it has made in California and nationally, even if this new creation is primarily a lobbying and public relations vehicle,” Saltsman said. “However, it’s unclear who or what this new group speaks for, outside of Service Employees International Union leadership or the small number of aligned employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saltsman added, the union ensures the likelihood that at least four seats on the fast-food council — two seats for workers and two for worker representatives — are controlled by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage increases for workers will likely lead to higher prices for consumers, said Jeff Hanscom, vice president of state and local government relations for the International Franchise Association, which represents restaurant chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local restaurant owners are pillars of their communities and proud of their commitment to employees, including the new $20/hour wage increase starting April 1,” he said in a statement. “However, that increase will add about $250,000 to the operating cost of each restaurant. Food prices will have to go up, customers will feel it, and restaurant owners will look for other ways to manage the additional cost while also keeping their small businesses afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-workers-want\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What workers want\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite a strong turnout at Friday’s event, workers said there’s still a lot more work to do to bring other employees on board because many of their colleagues express fears of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are scared,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste Perez, a Burger King worker in San José, said she signed up to be a union member days ago without thinking twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth it,” she said. “We don’t have anything: health insurance, paid vacation. We don’t see our loved ones enough. We just work all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers outlined a few priorities for the union: In addition to annual wage increases and seeking better work schedules, the union plans to introduce local ordinances in San José and Los Angeles to strengthen job protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg\" alt='A banner that says \"Fast Food Justice Ahora [Now]\" ' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner outside the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Gonzalez, a Subway employee, said she feels confident the new union will offer strong support and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have violence at work, I know they’re going to support us in the protections we fight for. We have a lot of things we want to accomplish,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said a priority for her will be consistent wage increases. While she’s grateful for the $20 wage increase, she knows it won’t keep up with the rising cost of living in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a formal union, workers said they’re hopeful their hesitant colleagues will sign up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started, we were very few,” Gonzalez said. “Maybe people will lose some fear because they see that nothing happens to us when we organize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11975340/california-fast-food-workers-gain-new-first-of-its-kind-union-to-represent-them","authors":["byline_news_11975340"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_31573","news_27626","news_19904","news_20482","news_4569"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11975343","label":"news_18481"},"news_11974782":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11974782","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11974782","score":null,"sort":[1707237111000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-optometrists-2-day-strike-could-delay-hundreds-of-patient-appointments","title":"UC Optometrists' 2-Day Strike Could Delay Hundreds of Patient Appointments","publishDate":1707237111,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Optometrists’ 2-Day Strike Could Delay Hundreds of Patient Appointments | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Optometrists at University of California campuses started a two-day strike on Tuesday over what they call labor law violations by their employer during negotiations for salaries and benefits. Hundreds of patients with appointments this week may have to reschedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HhlJjh9pipFhzWpXzBHW3VEY4vUUporQ/view\">work stoppage\u003c/a> comes as UC and the University Professional and Technical Employees, Communication Workers of America Local 9119, have failed over a year to agree on the terms of employment for more than 80 optometrists who joined the union in 2022. Both parties have recently filed unfair labor practice charges against each other with state regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Dr. Nicole Mercho, optometrist, UCSF Health\"]‘We love our patients. But it just feels like this strike is the only option that we have left.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives said noncompetitive compensation and lack of career growth opportunities contribute to the recruitment of new talent and retention problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, at UCSF Health, one of the nation’s top-ranked ophthalmology hospitals, some patients wait six to eight months for an appointment, said Dr. Nicole Mercho, 29, who works at the hospital’s Glaucoma Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF optometrists, who see about 12 to 14 patients daily on a regular schedule, manage a variety of ocular diseases and eye infections in patients often referred to the hospital from as far away as Eureka, Modesto and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love our patients. But it just feels like this strike is the only option that we have left,” Mercho said. “It’s very frustrating that UC has not really bargained in good faith. They’re kind of dragging their feet. They are not taking it seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UC told KQED that each location would handle notifications for impacted patients by the work stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2023, the union and UC representatives have met nearly a dozen times to work through issues to integrate the newly represented optometrists into an existing contract agreement that covers 6,500 \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/hx/index.html\">health care professional unit members\u003c/a>. But that process has come to a standstill, according to union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the union took its case to the California Public Employment Relations Board, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L11KqGzxt-O3EyMGns9lsuOCYjhqiPB5/view\">accusing\u003c/a> the university of violations that include refusing to disclose “essential” data for bargaining on wages and withholding contact information for new unit members for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health, one of the nation’s top-ranked ophthalmology hospitals. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matias Campos, executive vice president at UPTE CWA Local 9119, said UC’s conduct undermines collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have an interest in making sure that large public employers like the University of California are conducting themselves in an appropriate manner under labor law,” Campos told KQED. “And if a public institution like the university, that is subject to oversight, [and a] recipient of a tremendous amount of public resources, thinks that they can get away with committing unfair labor practices at the bargaining table, that should be alarming to every worker in California and every taxpayer in California.”[aside tag=\"uc-strike,union\" label=\"More Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC responded by filing its own unfair labor practice \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24409156/2024-02-02-uc-v-upte-perb.pdf\">charges\u003c/a> against UPTE CWA Local 9119 last week, rejecting the union’s accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university argued that it is simply insisting that the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that already applies to healthcare professionals in the unit also apply to optometrists and that this week’s work stoppage represented an “unlawful pre-impasse strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California respects the rights of employees to organize and is committed to good-faith bargaining across our system with unions, including the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE),” said a UC spokesperson in a statement. “The University believes the planned UPTE action related to this limited group of employees is an unlawful exercise by the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson added that the two parties had reached tentative agreements on incentive compensation and other issues during the bargaining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6503388&GUID=DC407C91-30E9-4BAA-A937-277B932BD49A\">a resolution\u003c/a>, sponsored by six members, supporting UPTE-CWA Local 9119 optometrists and urging UC’s administration to swiftly reach an agreement that recognizes the issues raised by the employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Optometrists plan to hold a picket line outside UC medical centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Davis. San Francisco Supervisors Dean Preston and Hillary Ronen are expected to speak at a strike rally on Wednesday at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Optometrists at University of California campuses are striking for two days this week over what they call unfair labor practices by their employer during negotiations for salaries and benefits. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707244915,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":766},"headData":{"title":"UC Optometrists' 2-Day Strike Could Delay Hundreds of Patient Appointments | KQED","description":"Optometrists at University of California campuses are striking for two days this week over what they call unfair labor practices by their employer during negotiations for salaries and benefits. ","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/d5903250-7112-4675-9a57-b10e012b361d/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11974782/uc-optometrists-2-day-strike-could-delay-hundreds-of-patient-appointments","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Optometrists at University of California campuses started a two-day strike on Tuesday over what they call labor law violations by their employer during negotiations for salaries and benefits. Hundreds of patients with appointments this week may have to reschedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HhlJjh9pipFhzWpXzBHW3VEY4vUUporQ/view\">work stoppage\u003c/a> comes as UC and the University Professional and Technical Employees, Communication Workers of America Local 9119, have failed over a year to agree on the terms of employment for more than 80 optometrists who joined the union in 2022. Both parties have recently filed unfair labor practice charges against each other with state regulators.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We love our patients. But it just feels like this strike is the only option that we have left.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Dr. Nicole Mercho, optometrist, UCSF Health","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union representatives said noncompetitive compensation and lack of career growth opportunities contribute to the recruitment of new talent and retention problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, at UCSF Health, one of the nation’s top-ranked ophthalmology hospitals, some patients wait six to eight months for an appointment, said Dr. Nicole Mercho, 29, who works at the hospital’s Glaucoma Clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF optometrists, who see about 12 to 14 patients daily on a regular schedule, manage a variety of ocular diseases and eye infections in patients often referred to the hospital from as far away as Eureka, Modesto and Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love our patients. But it just feels like this strike is the only option that we have left,” Mercho said. “It’s very frustrating that UC has not really bargained in good faith. They’re kind of dragging their feet. They are not taking it seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UC told KQED that each location would handle notifications for impacted patients by the work stoppage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January 2023, the union and UC representatives have met nearly a dozen times to work through issues to integrate the newly represented optometrists into an existing contract agreement that covers 6,500 \u003ca href=\"https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/labor/bargaining-units/hx/index.html\">health care professional unit members\u003c/a>. But that process has come to a standstill, according to union representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the union took its case to the California Public Employment Relations Board, \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L11KqGzxt-O3EyMGns9lsuOCYjhqiPB5/view\">accusing\u003c/a> the university of violations that include refusing to disclose “essential” data for bargaining on wages and withholding contact information for new unit members for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg\" alt=\"The exterior shot of the UCSF Health building in San Francisco.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/UCSFHealth-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The outside of UCSF Health, one of the nation’s top-ranked ophthalmology hospitals. \u003ccite>(Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Matias Campos, executive vice president at UPTE CWA Local 9119, said UC’s conduct undermines collective bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all have an interest in making sure that large public employers like the University of California are conducting themselves in an appropriate manner under labor law,” Campos told KQED. “And if a public institution like the university, that is subject to oversight, [and a] recipient of a tremendous amount of public resources, thinks that they can get away with committing unfair labor practices at the bargaining table, that should be alarming to every worker in California and every taxpayer in California.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"uc-strike,union","label":"More Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC responded by filing its own unfair labor practice \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24409156/2024-02-02-uc-v-upte-perb.pdf\">charges\u003c/a> against UPTE CWA Local 9119 last week, rejecting the union’s accusations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university argued that it is simply insisting that the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that already applies to healthcare professionals in the unit also apply to optometrists and that this week’s work stoppage represented an “unlawful pre-impasse strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The University of California respects the rights of employees to organize and is committed to good-faith bargaining across our system with unions, including the University Professional and Technical Employees Union (UPTE),” said a UC spokesperson in a statement. “The University believes the planned UPTE action related to this limited group of employees is an unlawful exercise by the union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson added that the two parties had reached tentative agreements on incentive compensation and other issues during the bargaining process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=6503388&GUID=DC407C91-30E9-4BAA-A937-277B932BD49A\">a resolution\u003c/a>, sponsored by six members, supporting UPTE-CWA Local 9119 optometrists and urging UC’s administration to swiftly reach an agreement that recognizes the issues raised by the employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Optometrists plan to hold a picket line outside UC medical centers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Davis. San Francisco Supervisors Dean Preston and Hillary Ronen are expected to speak at a strike rally on Wednesday at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11974782/uc-optometrists-2-day-strike-could-delay-hundreds-of-patient-appointments","authors":["8659"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_18540","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_18545","news_20013","news_33801","news_27626","news_18543","news_19904","news_19960","news_23180","news_2659","news_3733"],"featImg":"news_11974807","label":"news_72"},"news_11974555":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11974555","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11974555","score":null,"sort":[1706897770000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"half-moon-bay-farm-involved-in-shooting-paid-126000-in-workplace-violations","title":"Half Moon Bay Farm Involved in Shooting Paid $126,000 in Workplace Violations","publishDate":1706897770,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Half Moon Bay Farm Involved in Shooting Paid $126,000 in Workplace Violations | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>One of the two businesses where seven farmworkers were fatally shot last year in Half Moon Bay has paid more than $126,000 for workplace violations uncovered after the mass shooting, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Terra Garden paid $84,000 in back wages and $42,500 in penalties assessed under federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/agriculture/mspa\">protections\u003c/a> covering migrant and seasonal agricultural workers. This is in addition to a separate $150,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">settlement paid\u003c/a> by the business to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, according to a spokesperson for the agency. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alberto Raymond, assistant district director, U.S. Department of Labor San José Office\"]‘The Department of Labor will enforce laws that protect all workers, particularly vulnerable workers. And will put every effort to seek justice, to level the playing field.’[/pullquote]A Department of Labor investigation into the second site where the back-to-back shootings occurred, Concord Farms, is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of investigators found California Terra Garden charged dozens of farmworkers to live in “deplorable” housing on-site and failed to notify them in writing about the terms of their employment as required, said Alberto Raymond, assistant district director at the agency’s San José office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Labor will enforce laws that protect all workers, particularly vulnerable workers,” Raymond told KQED. “And will put every effort to seek justice, to level the playing field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Terra Garden made the full payment to the Department of Labor last summer. The agency has been working to track down 39 workers who are eligible for restitution over two years, according to Raymond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach California Terra Garden representatives for comment were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller, who has helped the county take steps to support wage theft victims and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">start developing\u003c/a> more affordable housing units for agricultural workers, welcomed the news. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller\"]‘The enforcement and recovery work by the U.S. Department of Labor is another step toward justice for the families affected by the tragedy in Half Moon Bay.’[/pullquote]“The enforcement and recovery work by the U.S. Department of Labor is another step toward justice for the families affected by the tragedy in Half Moon Bay,” Mueller said in a statement. “On the county level, we are making active strides to ensure a safe and healthy future for all agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deemed an extreme case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">workplace violence\u003c/a>, the murders on Jan. 23, 2023, at the two mushroom farms exposed very low wages and substandard housing conditions for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the shooting, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters that the farmworkers lived in “shipping containers” and earned only $9 an hour, far below California’s minimum wage. State and county officials vowed to investigate. [aside label='More on Half Moon Bay' tag='half-moon-bay']One year later, California workplace regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">accused\u003c/a> the two farm employers of various \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">safety\u003c/a> and labor law violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal grand jury indicted the alleged gunman, Chunli Zhao, with seven counts of murder, among other charges. The judge in the case scheduled an arraignment for later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao allegedly shot five people at California Terra Garden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">one of whom survived\u003c/a>. The former forklift operator, 66 at the time of the attacks, then shot and killed three more people at nearby Concord Farms, where he used to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers can check if they are owed wages by searching the Department of Labor’s \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/QLyCC5yWjXS6RzNRuz34vp?domain=webapps.dol.gov\">Workers Owed Wages website\u003c/a>, said an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also call a toll-free helpline at 1-866-487-9243 or contact the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/3E5MC680k4syMgwMS6yUM6?domain=dol.gov\">local office\u003c/a> where the case was managed. The California Terra Garden case was handled by the department’s Walnut Creek Area office at 415-625-7720.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California Terra Garden paid $84,000 in back wages and $42,500 in penalties under federal protections for agricultural workers. A Department of Labor investigation into Concord Farms, the second site of consecutive shootings, is ongoing.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1706906735,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":661},"headData":{"title":"Half Moon Bay Farm Involved in Shooting Paid $126,000 in Workplace Violations | KQED","description":"California Terra Garden paid $84,000 in back wages and $42,500 in penalties under federal protections for agricultural workers. A Department of Labor investigation into Concord Farms, the second site of consecutive shootings, is ongoing.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/13c3b78c-bafb-46a6-b07e-b10a0101d603/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11974555/half-moon-bay-farm-involved-in-shooting-paid-126000-in-workplace-violations","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the two businesses where seven farmworkers were fatally shot last year in Half Moon Bay has paid more than $126,000 for workplace violations uncovered after the mass shooting, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Terra Garden paid $84,000 in back wages and $42,500 in penalties assessed under federal \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/agriculture/mspa\">protections\u003c/a> covering migrant and seasonal agricultural workers. This is in addition to a separate $150,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">settlement paid\u003c/a> by the business to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, according to a spokesperson for the agency. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The Department of Labor will enforce laws that protect all workers, particularly vulnerable workers. And will put every effort to seek justice, to level the playing field.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alberto Raymond, assistant district director, U.S. Department of Labor San José Office","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A Department of Labor investigation into the second site where the back-to-back shootings occurred, Concord Farms, is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A team of investigators found California Terra Garden charged dozens of farmworkers to live in “deplorable” housing on-site and failed to notify them in writing about the terms of their employment as required, said Alberto Raymond, assistant district director at the agency’s San José office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Department of Labor will enforce laws that protect all workers, particularly vulnerable workers,” Raymond told KQED. “And will put every effort to seek justice, to level the playing field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Terra Garden made the full payment to the Department of Labor last summer. The agency has been working to track down 39 workers who are eligible for restitution over two years, according to Raymond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to reach California Terra Garden representatives for comment were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller, who has helped the county take steps to support wage theft victims and to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">start developing\u003c/a> more affordable housing units for agricultural workers, welcomed the news. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The enforcement and recovery work by the U.S. Department of Labor is another step toward justice for the families affected by the tragedy in Half Moon Bay.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San Mateo County Supervisor Ray Mueller","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The enforcement and recovery work by the U.S. Department of Labor is another step toward justice for the families affected by the tragedy in Half Moon Bay,” Mueller said in a statement. “On the county level, we are making active strides to ensure a safe and healthy future for all agricultural workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deemed an extreme case of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11939361/im-afraid-half-moon-bay-shootings-may-have-been-extreme-case-of-workplace-violence\">workplace violence\u003c/a>, the murders on Jan. 23, 2023, at the two mushroom farms exposed very low wages and substandard housing conditions for workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the shooting, Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters that the farmworkers lived in “shipping containers” and earned only $9 an hour, far below California’s minimum wage. State and county officials vowed to investigate. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Half Moon Bay ","tag":"half-moon-bay"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One year later, California workplace regulators \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973396/half-moon-bay-commemorates-1-year-anniversary-of-mass-shooting-that-killed-7\">accused\u003c/a> the two farm employers of various \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2023/2023-46.html\">safety\u003c/a> and labor law violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal grand jury indicted the alleged gunman, Chunli Zhao, with seven counts of murder, among other charges. The judge in the case scheduled an arraignment for later this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zhao allegedly shot five people at California Terra Garden, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966741/culture-cures-accordion-classes-for-half-moon-bay-farmworkers-offer-healing-through-music\">one of whom survived\u003c/a>. The former forklift operator, 66 at the time of the attacks, then shot and killed three more people at nearby Concord Farms, where he used to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers can check if they are owed wages by searching the Department of Labor’s \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/QLyCC5yWjXS6RzNRuz34vp?domain=webapps.dol.gov\">Workers Owed Wages website\u003c/a>, said an agency spokesperson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They can also call a toll-free helpline at 1-866-487-9243 or contact the \u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/3E5MC680k4syMgwMS6yUM6?domain=dol.gov\">local office\u003c/a> where the case was managed. The California Terra Garden case was handled by the department’s Walnut Creek Area office at 415-625-7720.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11974555/half-moon-bay-farm-involved-in-shooting-paid-126000-in-workplace-violations","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_4092","news_31720","news_18269","news_27626","news_1164","news_32350","news_32332","news_20202","news_19904","news_32378","news_21721","news_31850","news_29880"],"featImg":"news_11940019","label":"news"},"news_11969289":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11969289","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11969289","score":null,"sort":[1702033206000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"cal-state-faculty-hold-a-series-of-one-day-strikes","title":"Cal State Faculty Hold a Series of 1-Day Strikes","publishDate":1702033206,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Cal State Faculty Hold a Series of 1-Day Strikes | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California State University system is the largest public university system in the nation. This week, faculty at four campuses — Cal Poly Pomona, San Francisco State, Cal State Los Angeles, and Sacramento State — launched a series of one-day strikes. KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara takes us to Tuesday’s strike at SF State, where faculty and staff say they’re fed up with working conditions, low pay, and looming job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5061237772&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. California State University faculty held a series of one day strikes this past week across four campuses, including here in the bay at San Francisco State. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and counselors, says that without better pay and smaller classes, the quality of students education suffers. And at San Francisco State, workers are particularly upset as the university also plans to cut hundreds of jobs and classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>We are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the Cal State faculty strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>On Tuesday, I went to San Francisco State University’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>SF State is one of four CSU campuses that was participating in this series of single day strikes this week provided by the union. So it started with Cal Poly Pomona on Monday, SF State was Tuesday. Then that was followed by CSU, L.A. and Sacramento State was the last day. I’d say the mood was very energized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>There were a few hundred people there for the strike. There was a lot of anger and frustration around the stalling in negotiations. But people also seemed pretty hopeful that something productive would come of their collective action, that they could pressure the university to make more movement at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, tell me a little bit more about who exactly is on strike across these four campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So this strike was held by the California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 faculty across the CSU’s 23 campuses. So that would be professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches. Mm hmm. And joining the CFA on strike for these four days was actually the Teamsters Union, which represents about 1100 skilled trades workers on those campuses. So they have their separate negotiations, but they joined in solidarity for these four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And why are CSU faculty striking right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, the big thing is, as usual, you know, salary the lowest paid lecturers in the CSU make about 50 4k. So they’re trying to raise that floor to 64. And they’re trying to get a 12% general salary increase for this year for 2023, 2024 school year. They argue that class sizes have been slowly increasing and that decreases the amount of time they’re able to give one on one attention to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>They are also hoping for a full semester of paid parental leave. There are also a few other things, like lactation centers on campuses that are accessible and gender neutral restrooms and other things. Negotiations between the CSU and the faculty union have kind of stalled. So they held these four days of strikes to kind of show the university that they were willing to hold work stoppages to get what they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you had a chance to talk with some folks out there at the strike. What do faculty that you spoke with say about what it’s like to work for CSU right now and why they don’t feel like they’re getting what they deserve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>Across the board they’re cutting. So all the humanities courses have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Ali Kashani is a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>So if you’re lecturer faculty here, you’re you’re teaching more than two courses. You have a health care. So once you lose that job, you lose your health care automatically. So I think that’s a major impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He was pretty upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re just barely going to be, you know, dealing with the inflation. It’s not like we’re not asking anything more. You know, we live in a very expensive area. So 12% is nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He feels like more money is going towards administrators, campus presidents and chancellors who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the people are actually teaching these courses and supporting students are kind of struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>The chancellor, who’s the new chancellor, is making $1 million and all the other, you know, the president’s day. There is no problem giving those people raises. And when it comes to us, we are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>And I talked to Blanca Misse, who’s an associate professor of French at SF State. They kind of talked about why faculty are so angry and riled up and we’re so ready for this strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>But the reason why it was not very hard to organize a strike at San Francisco State. I mean, it was a lot of organizing work, but it’s because the faculty were ready to go. Because when you’re losing 300 lecturer line faculty for next semester, people who’ve been working here for 20 years, when you see programs are being devastated, decimated students struggling to graduate. I mean, faculty get angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to talk about how CSU is responding so far. How has the university’s system administrators responded to these demands by faculty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>University administrators have made some small movement, so they went from their initial proposal of a 4% salary increase for the year to 5%. They were initially suggesting that the salary increases take effect after the contract is signed. The unions pushing for that to be retroactive to the beginning of the year. But in general, the university administration hasn’t really made much movement on these demands. They kind of argue that they’re too expensive and that they can’t afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I was going to say 5% offer compared to a 12% demand. I mean, that is a pretty big gap there between the CSU and its faculty. But why do administrators say that CSU doesn’t have enough money to pay these raises? What is their rationale there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, CSU administrators say that if they did agree to a 12% annual pay increase would result in like $380 million a year for them. That’s more than the annual budgets for some of their campuses. They also say that emergency funding that they were getting from the state during the first few years of the pandemic have gone away. The enrollment is kind of on the decline and that they don’t think that agreeing to these pay increases will be sustainable in the long term for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why university administrators at San Francisco State say declining enrollment is going to make it hard for them to give faculty what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At that point about declining enrollment is really interesting to me. I’m curious what we know about how CSU’s have been doing in terms of enrollment and what role is that really playing in all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>This year’s fall undergraduate enrollment for the CSU as a whole is about 6.5% lower than it was in 2019. Obviously, they took a hit at the start of the pandemic, but there hasn’t really seen a full recovery. And it seems like the anticipation is that it won’t be with California’s overall population being in slight decline and and people having kids at slightly slower rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>So I have a budget that I build based on two sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I got to speak to the university’s president, Lynn Mahoney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>The state allocation, the tax dollars I get and then the tuition I collect from students. And that’s the money I can count on year after year. And that’s what I use to pay my employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>For San Francisco State. Those declines are even worse this year compared to 2019 for undergraduate enrollment has seen a 20% decline and the university says that it needs to adapt to that by making these substantive cuts. So they were looking at about 125 full time equivalent lecture positions and more than 600 classes to be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>We’re down about 5 or 6000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Most lecturers aren’t full time. So the union estimates that that would be about more than 300 lecturers that would be laid off. Mahoney said that she understands, but she says tough decisions have to be made and that if enrollment continues to decline, the university has to adjust for that in its staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>My role as a university president is to keep the university financially solvent. In the best interests of the graduation rates of our students. But I’ve got to keep it financially solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So CSU says they can’t afford these pay raises that the faculty are demanding. And on top of that, at San Francisco State, there’s also these looming job cuts because of enrollment decline. How is the union responding to those claims by the CSU and the university?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union hired its own financial analyst to look at the university’s finances. That analyst found that the university regularly has surpluses at the end of each year and that its reserves have been growing and are now in the range of $8 billion. So they don’t think that the university even needs to use its reserves to pay for these raises. They think that with the surpluses it sees every year, this is something they can accommodate. Of course, the university denies that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Erickson: \u003c/strong>They have been giving us a kind of gloom and doom financial narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I spoke with Brad Erickson, who’s the president of the San Francisco State chapter of the faculty Union. He said the university is sort of has a history of not being transparent with its finances and that there look at future financial situations is usually more pessimistic and that it’s in their best interest to kind of keep costs down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Erickson: \u003c/strong>Last year was actually the best, the strongest financial year in the CSU and at San Francisco State. So I trust the independent accountant. And and at any rate, it puts a reasonable skepticism. For anyone watching this situation to be skeptical about management’s claims, about both the impact of enrollment decline and their real financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, we’ve been talking about a series of one day strikes, but it doesn’t really sound like these issues are going to be resolved any time soon. So are we going to see more of these strikes? Juan Carlos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I think that’s entirely possible, if not likely. These four day strikes were planned as sort of a testing ground so that union officials could start gathering up their support. It’s notable that these strikes weren’t only attended by faculty of those respective campuses. Some faculty kind of went from around the area to the strike nearest them to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union was also sort of motivated by trying to avoid disruptions to students because, of course, we’re in December right now. Students are nearing their finals and the end of the term. So they were hoping that this would kind of push the union to come back to the table with more meaningful proposals. If it doesn’t, which it’s very likely it won’t, They’ll probably plan bigger strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>And it will not be for one day any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So for Blanca said that they totally anticipate larger strikes going on for longer and covering more campuses and that in the spring, if there’s no movement at the bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>Table so they have a chance to do what they have to do, the CSU, but if they don’t do it, will give them another nudge with more strikes next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you think this is all going to mean for students at the end of the day? Not just the strikes, but whatever comes out of these negotiations between faculty and the CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>One of the lines that the faculty union has pushed a lot in these rallies and in these strikes is that faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. I think it’s fair to say that lower class sizes and better compensated faculty, which would translate to lower turnover, would be beneficial to students. So some of these gains could potentially mean. Students have more one on one time with their professors and they see less turnover in the professors that they have. But in the meantime, it might mean disruptions. The beginning of the spring semester might be marked by prolonged strikes, and obviously they won’t be having classes if that becomes the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Juan Carlos, thank you so much for taking the time to break this down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara :\u003c/strong>Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Juan Carlos Lara, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Juan Carlos was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. Our senior editor is Alan Montecillo. Shout out as well to the rest of our podcast team here at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, and Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Holly Kernan, our Chief Content Officer. If you aren’t already, make sure you are subscribed to the Bay so that you never miss a beat. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. 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This week, faculty at four campuses — Cal Poly Pomona, San Francisco State, Cal State Los Angeles, and Sacramento State — launched a series of one-day strikes. KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara takes us to Tuesday’s strike at SF State, where faculty and staff say they’re fed up with working conditions, low pay, and looming job cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5061237772&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and welcome to the bay. Local news to keep you rooted. California State University faculty held a series of one day strikes this past week across four campuses, including here in the bay at San Francisco State. The California Faculty Association, which represents 29,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and counselors, says that without better pay and smaller classes, the quality of students education suffers. And at San Francisco State, workers are particularly upset as the university also plans to cut hundreds of jobs and classes next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>We are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, the Cal State faculty strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>On Tuesday, I went to San Francisco State University’s campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>SF State is one of four CSU campuses that was participating in this series of single day strikes this week provided by the union. So it started with Cal Poly Pomona on Monday, SF State was Tuesday. Then that was followed by CSU, L.A. and Sacramento State was the last day. I’d say the mood was very energized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>There were a few hundred people there for the strike. There was a lot of anger and frustration around the stalling in negotiations. But people also seemed pretty hopeful that something productive would come of their collective action, that they could pressure the university to make more movement at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, tell me a little bit more about who exactly is on strike across these four campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So this strike was held by the California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 faculty across the CSU’s 23 campuses. So that would be professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches. Mm hmm. And joining the CFA on strike for these four days was actually the Teamsters Union, which represents about 1100 skilled trades workers on those campuses. So they have their separate negotiations, but they joined in solidarity for these four days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And why are CSU faculty striking right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, the big thing is, as usual, you know, salary the lowest paid lecturers in the CSU make about 50 4k. So they’re trying to raise that floor to 64. And they’re trying to get a 12% general salary increase for this year for 2023, 2024 school year. They argue that class sizes have been slowly increasing and that decreases the amount of time they’re able to give one on one attention to students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>They are also hoping for a full semester of paid parental leave. There are also a few other things, like lactation centers on campuses that are accessible and gender neutral restrooms and other things. Negotiations between the CSU and the faculty union have kind of stalled. So they held these four days of strikes to kind of show the university that they were willing to hold work stoppages to get what they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I know you had a chance to talk with some folks out there at the strike. What do faculty that you spoke with say about what it’s like to work for CSU right now and why they don’t feel like they’re getting what they deserve?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>Across the board they’re cutting. So all the humanities courses have been cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Ali Kashani is a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>So if you’re lecturer faculty here, you’re you’re teaching more than two courses. You have a health care. So once you lose that job, you lose your health care automatically. So I think that’s a major impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He was pretty upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re just barely going to be, you know, dealing with the inflation. It’s not like we’re not asking anything more. You know, we live in a very expensive area. So 12% is nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>He feels like more money is going towards administrators, campus presidents and chancellors who get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars. While the people are actually teaching these courses and supporting students are kind of struggling to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ali Kashani: \u003c/strong>The chancellor, who’s the new chancellor, is making $1 million and all the other, you know, the president’s day. There is no problem giving those people raises. And when it comes to us, we are the engine of this, you know, university. University consists of faculty and students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>And I talked to Blanca Misse, who’s an associate professor of French at SF State. They kind of talked about why faculty are so angry and riled up and we’re so ready for this strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>But the reason why it was not very hard to organize a strike at San Francisco State. I mean, it was a lot of organizing work, but it’s because the faculty were ready to go. Because when you’re losing 300 lecturer line faculty for next semester, people who’ve been working here for 20 years, when you see programs are being devastated, decimated students struggling to graduate. I mean, faculty get angry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I want to talk about how CSU is responding so far. How has the university’s system administrators responded to these demands by faculty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>University administrators have made some small movement, so they went from their initial proposal of a 4% salary increase for the year to 5%. They were initially suggesting that the salary increases take effect after the contract is signed. The unions pushing for that to be retroactive to the beginning of the year. But in general, the university administration hasn’t really made much movement on these demands. They kind of argue that they’re too expensive and that they can’t afford them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, I was going to say 5% offer compared to a 12% demand. I mean, that is a pretty big gap there between the CSU and its faculty. But why do administrators say that CSU doesn’t have enough money to pay these raises? What is their rationale there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, CSU administrators say that if they did agree to a 12% annual pay increase would result in like $380 million a year for them. That’s more than the annual budgets for some of their campuses. They also say that emergency funding that they were getting from the state during the first few years of the pandemic have gone away. The enrollment is kind of on the decline and that they don’t think that agreeing to these pay increases will be sustainable in the long term for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, why university administrators at San Francisco State say declining enrollment is going to make it hard for them to give faculty what they want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>At that point about declining enrollment is really interesting to me. I’m curious what we know about how CSU’s have been doing in terms of enrollment and what role is that really playing in all of this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>This year’s fall undergraduate enrollment for the CSU as a whole is about 6.5% lower than it was in 2019. Obviously, they took a hit at the start of the pandemic, but there hasn’t really seen a full recovery. And it seems like the anticipation is that it won’t be with California’s overall population being in slight decline and and people having kids at slightly slower rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>So I have a budget that I build based on two sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I got to speak to the university’s president, Lynn Mahoney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>The state allocation, the tax dollars I get and then the tuition I collect from students. And that’s the money I can count on year after year. And that’s what I use to pay my employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>For San Francisco State. Those declines are even worse this year compared to 2019 for undergraduate enrollment has seen a 20% decline and the university says that it needs to adapt to that by making these substantive cuts. So they were looking at about 125 full time equivalent lecture positions and more than 600 classes to be cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>We’re down about 5 or 6000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>Most lecturers aren’t full time. So the union estimates that that would be about more than 300 lecturers that would be laid off. Mahoney said that she understands, but she says tough decisions have to be made and that if enrollment continues to decline, the university has to adjust for that in its staffing levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lynn Mahoney: \u003c/strong>My role as a university president is to keep the university financially solvent. In the best interests of the graduation rates of our students. But I’ve got to keep it financially solvent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So CSU says they can’t afford these pay raises that the faculty are demanding. And on top of that, at San Francisco State, there’s also these looming job cuts because of enrollment decline. How is the union responding to those claims by the CSU and the university?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union hired its own financial analyst to look at the university’s finances. That analyst found that the university regularly has surpluses at the end of each year and that its reserves have been growing and are now in the range of $8 billion. So they don’t think that the university even needs to use its reserves to pay for these raises. They think that with the surpluses it sees every year, this is something they can accommodate. Of course, the university denies that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Erickson: \u003c/strong>They have been giving us a kind of gloom and doom financial narrative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I spoke with Brad Erickson, who’s the president of the San Francisco State chapter of the faculty Union. He said the university is sort of has a history of not being transparent with its finances and that there look at future financial situations is usually more pessimistic and that it’s in their best interest to kind of keep costs down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brad Erickson: \u003c/strong>Last year was actually the best, the strongest financial year in the CSU and at San Francisco State. So I trust the independent accountant. And and at any rate, it puts a reasonable skepticism. For anyone watching this situation to be skeptical about management’s claims, about both the impact of enrollment decline and their real financial situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, you know, we’ve been talking about a series of one day strikes, but it doesn’t really sound like these issues are going to be resolved any time soon. So are we going to see more of these strikes? Juan Carlos?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>I think that’s entirely possible, if not likely. These four day strikes were planned as sort of a testing ground so that union officials could start gathering up their support. It’s notable that these strikes weren’t only attended by faculty of those respective campuses. Some faculty kind of went from around the area to the strike nearest them to participate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>The union was also sort of motivated by trying to avoid disruptions to students because, of course, we’re in December right now. Students are nearing their finals and the end of the term. So they were hoping that this would kind of push the union to come back to the table with more meaningful proposals. If it doesn’t, which it’s very likely it won’t, They’ll probably plan bigger strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>And it will not be for one day any more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>So for Blanca said that they totally anticipate larger strikes going on for longer and covering more campuses and that in the spring, if there’s no movement at the bargaining.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Blanca Misse: \u003c/strong>Table so they have a chance to do what they have to do, the CSU, but if they don’t do it, will give them another nudge with more strikes next semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What do you think this is all going to mean for students at the end of the day? Not just the strikes, but whatever comes out of these negotiations between faculty and the CSU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/strong>One of the lines that the faculty union has pushed a lot in these rallies and in these strikes is that faculty working conditions are student learning conditions. I think it’s fair to say that lower class sizes and better compensated faculty, which would translate to lower turnover, would be beneficial to students. So some of these gains could potentially mean. Students have more one on one time with their professors and they see less turnover in the professors that they have. But in the meantime, it might mean disruptions. The beginning of the spring semester might be marked by prolonged strikes, and obviously they won’t be having classes if that becomes the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Juan Carlos, thank you so much for taking the time to break this down. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Juan Carlos Lara :\u003c/strong>Thank you so much for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Juan Carlos Lara, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Juan Carlos was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. Our senior editor is Alan Montecillo. Shout out as well to the rest of our podcast team here at KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That’s Jen Chien, our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, and Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Holly Kernan, our Chief Content Officer. If you aren’t already, make sure you are subscribed to the Bay so that you never miss a beat. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening. 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CSU Los Angeles faculty plan to strike on Wednesday, followed by Sacramento State faculty on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Faculty Association, which represents some 29,000 CSU employees, is demanding a retroactive 12% salary hike for the current academic year, more manageable workloads and an increase in parental leave — from six weeks to a full semester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11969093\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11969093\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-27-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a baseball cap speaks into a microphone in front of a group of people in red shirts carry picket signs in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" 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LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The work stoppages come after months of fruitless negotiations between the union and university system administrators, who have held fast to their offer of a 5% increase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And neither side accepted some of the key terms that an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968703/cal-state-faculty-plans-to-strike-as-officials-reject-a-12-salary-increase\">independent fact finder recommended last week\u003c/a> — including a 7% pay hike — in a final effort to avert a strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blanca Missé, an associate professor of French at SF State, blamed administrators for failing to seriously consider the union’s demands, noting that a 5% pay increase would not even cover inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to look at the facts of the cost of living, the cost of keeping faculty working in this institution because a lot of faculty are leaving because they cannot afford to live in the Bay Area anymore,” said Missé, who joined the campus picket line on Tuesday. “We have a high turnover of faculty, which in turn affects the quality of education for students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Leora Freedman, CSU’s vice chancellor for human resources, said that while the university system aims to pay its workers fairly and provide competitive benefits, it simply lacked the financial resources to accommodate the union’s demands.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"csu\"]“We recognize the need to increase compensation and are committed to doing so, but our financial commitments must be fiscally sustainable,” she said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF State, more so than any other CSU campus, is also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967471/sf-state-faculty-and-students-rally-against-layoffs-class-cuts-planned-for-spring\">facing the prospect of sweeping cuts\u003c/a>, with over 300 lecturers expected to be laid off in the spring and more than 650 classes on the chopping block following years of declining enrollment and a projected budget shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Missé said that although the strike was not about the planned layoffs, that grim context helped mobilize faculty and students to show up on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you’re losing 300 lecture-line faculty, people who have been working here for 20 years, when you see programs being decimated, students struggling to graduate, people get angry,” Missé said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ali Noorzad, a fourth-year history student who participated in Tuesday’s strike, said his education is directly dependent on the working conditions of his professors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking at my class schedule, there’s classes I needed to take that I could not take because so many classes are cut because so many faculty have been cut,” Noorzad said. “Faculty are obviously the ones being most directly affected by [cuts], but you can see how this is affecting us as 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https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231205-SFSUFacultyStrike-10-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SF State student Violet Street chants in support of faculty during Tuesday’s campus walkout. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve always had crappy negotiating and bad contracts, and that’s why we’re here,” said David Hagstrom, the Teamsters Local 2010 chief steward, whose own union held a one-day strike last month after also failing to agree on a new contract with university administrators. 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So even if the two sides do reach a compromise, they will have to return to the negotiating table in a matter of months to face off over the next contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ali Kashani, a senior lecturer of political philosophy at SF State, said the prospect of that ongoing struggle doesn’t daunt him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are fed up. They want to have better living conditions, so we’re not afraid of that,” he said. “This is actually a good testing ground for us. We’re going to get ready, solidarity is going to be there, we’re going to actually get more militant for our next contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The action is the second in a series of day-long strikes at four California State University campuses this week, with CSU Los Angeles faculty planning to walk out on Wednesday, followed by faculty at Sacramento State on Thursday.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1701901173,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":904},"headData":{"title":"Hundreds of SF State Faculty Ditch Class in 1-Day Strike for Better Wages, Working Conditions | KQED","description":"The action is the second in a series of day-long strikes at four California State University campuses this week, with CSU Los Angeles faculty planning to walk out on Wednesday, followed by faculty at Sacramento State on Thursday.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11969109/hundreds-of-sf-state-faculty-ditch-class-in-1-day-strike-for-better-wages-working-conditions","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco State University faculty held a single-day strike on Tuesday, demanding significant pay increases, amid the looming threat of widespread layoffs and hundreds of class cuts across campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of faculty members, including professors, librarians, counselors and coaches, gathered on the campus alongside some of their students, holding signs and shouting chants as passing cars honked in support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When education is under attack, what do we do?” one strike leader called out. “Stand up, fight back!” the crowd responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The action is the second in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11968948/thousands-of-cal-state-faculty-launch-rolling-1-day-walkouts-in-fight-for-higher-pay\">series of one-day strikes\u003c/a> at four California State University campuses this week, with Cal Poly Pomona faculty kicking things off on Monday. 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