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And \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/politics/gov-newsom-vetoed-three-bills-including-wide-supported-proposal-against-ice-transfers-of-non-citizen-prisoners\">Newsom has hundreds of more bills to look over by October 14\u003c/a>, either to sign them in or veto them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More bills were vetoed by the governor on\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/07/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-10-7-23/\"> October 7\u003c/a>, including a bill that would have banned discrimination on grounds of caste, and one that would have decriminalized the possession and use of psychedelic substances for those over the age of 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/legislativeprocess#:~:text=If%20the%20Governor%20vetoes%20the,needed%20to%20override%20the%20veto.\">If a bill is vetoed by a governor, it goes back to the state Legislature\u003c/a> where it needs a two-thirds vote in both chambers to override the veto. However,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963061/newsom-rejects-bill-to-give-unemployment-checks-to-striking-workers\"> it has been decades since that has happened in California.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for an overview of some of the most notable vetoes Newsom has made so far, starting with his latest. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/\">You can follow a complete list of Newsom’s vetoes on the state’s website\u003c/a> under “Governor Newsom Legislative Updates,” which includes a variety of topics such as hazing in schools, providing broadband access and a cap on campaign finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have required more mental health training for school staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 13\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> School staff, students, parents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive? \u003c/strong>State Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) \u003ca href=\"https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2023-02-14/senator-portantino-introduces-bill-implement-mental-health-education-and-training\">introduced this bill\u003c/a> to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">the growing mental health crisis among young Californians\u003c/a>. SB 509 would have mandated youth behavioral health training for all certified staff and for 40 percent of classified employees who interact with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-509-Veto-Message.pdf\">his veto message\u003c/a>, Newsom said he had concerns with aspects of the bill, including the scope of the training and the “the lack of an appropriate mechanism to fund the bill via the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Fund.” He referred to the Department of Finance to propose new language – meaning there is a chance for the bill in January’s state budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have prevented counties from taking foster kids’ money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Foster children or people once in the foster care system\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988806806/state-foster-care-agencies-take-millions-of-dollars-owed-to-children-in-their-ca\">an investigation by criminal justice outlet The Marshall Project and NPR\u003c/a>, states like Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon have been cracking down on agencies who have been taking benefits from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/california-foster-kids-money/\">foster children’s Social Security checks\u003c/a>. California’s AB 1512 would have prevented counties from using those benefits to pay for the cost of foster care, instead of going to the children directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, however, said changing this reimbursement practice would cost the state too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…This bill creates implementation challenges that should be considered as part of the annual budget process,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-1512-VETO.pdf\">wrote in his veto message\u003c/a>. “Both Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and foster care benefits are intended to provide for the daily care and supervision of youth, including costs for housing and food. If counties are not permitted to use SSI to cover the cost of providing care to foster youth, the General Fund will need to offset those costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have allowed cannabis cafes in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Businesses, people who use cannabis recreationally[aside postID=news_11963827 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61679_GettyImages-1241629214-qut.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> This bill would have allowed\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963827/newsom-vetoes-more-bills-including-bill-that-would-have-legalized-cannabis-cafes\"> “Amsterdam-style” cannabis cafes in California\u003c/a>, with food and live music. In his message vetoing the bill, Newsom said he was concerned about its conflict with California’s smoke-free workplace protections. The governor said he nonetheless “appreciates the author’s intent to provide cannabis retailers with increased business opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have expanded benefits to Californians, regardless of immigration status\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Undocumented Californians\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1536\">AB 1536 would have extended a state-funded, monthly cash assistance to lower-income aged, blind, or disabled immigrants in California\u003c/a> – regardless of whether they are undocumented or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the bill, saying that despite supporting the goal of the bill, he couldn’t approve the policy without funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have paid lower-income jurors $100 for their service\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Lower-income California residents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Expanding on \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/financialjustice/files/2022-11/Be%20the%20Jury%20Report_Final.pdf\">a San Francisco pilot program called Be the Jury\u003c/a>, this bill would have paid lower-to-moderate income jurors $100 for each day of service, in hopes of making jury duty more accessible and diverse. \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/sf-be-the-jury-ca-duty-pay-la-county-alameda/13434126/\">Californians are currently given $15 a day to serve on a jury.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the concept “groundbreaking” in a report about the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our country’s history, laws barred certain communities from serving on juries,” said Breed, according to the release. “…Even when those discriminatory laws changed, low-income jurors — many being Black, Asian, Latino — struggled to be able to serve because they couldn’t give up their wages.” Breed called the SF pilot program “the kind of smart, innovative change that will create a more equitable and fair criminal justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-881-VETO.pdf\">Newsom vetoed this for a statewide measure\u003c/a>, citing budget concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have enforced a nurse-to-patient ratio\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Healthcare workers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Encino Democrat Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel introduced a bill that would ask the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to annually review its enforcement of hospital nurse-to-patient ratio and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-1063-VETO.pdf\">submit a public report to the state legislature in January\u003c/a>. Every two years, the CDPH would also have to hold a public hearing to receive input from nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsroom vetoed the bill – amidst\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963568/kaiser-strike-to-end-saturday-but-negotiations-will-continue\"> labor discussions among healthcare workers\u003c/a> at one of California’s largest private insurers, Kaiser Permanente – writing in his message that since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-1063-VETO.pdf\">CDPH already “prioritizes open engagement with stakeholders,”\u003c/a> a biennial public hearing would be unnecessary for the state to make changes, and that the information the bill seeks is publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have prevented public agencies from selling firearms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Proponents of gun control\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> AB 733 aimed to prohibit public agencies – like police departments – from selling firearms, ammunition and body armor. Newsom wrote in his veto message that while \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-733-VETO.pdf\">he applauded the author’s efforts to curb gun violence\u003c/a>, he was “concerned about the cost implications of this legislation” writing that “law enforcement agencies, both local and state, oftentimes sell their firearms to a dealer when they upgrade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am concerned that this bill, which limits these sales to a dealer who contractually agrees to resell only to a law enforcement agency, will restrict the ability to trade in these firearms and will cost law enforcement agencies across the state millions of dollars,” wrote Newsom – saying that this bill was being proposed “at a time when resources are limited, and staffing is low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have allowed condoms to be sold to high schoolers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Proponents of sex-ed, high school age Californians\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Senate Bill 541 would require all public high schools to make free condoms available – and prohibit retailers from refusing to sell to teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said while evidence showed that increasing access to contraceptives improve adolescent sexual health, the bill would cause economic uncertainty for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With our state facing continuing economic risk and revenue uncertainty,\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-541-Veto-Message.pdf\"> it is important to remain disciplined when considering bills with significant fiscal implications\u003c/a>, such as this measure,” he wrote in his veto message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have capped insulin costs at $35\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Diabetes patients\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Insulin – \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-prices-diabetes-congress-a2f9986b7bf3500b81d1ec80a01e5abb\">an important medication for most people with diabetes that helps control glucose levels\u003c/a> – is uniquely expensive in America, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive\">insulin costs tripling in the past decade\u003c/a>. SB90 aimed to cap these costs at $35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-90-Veto.pdf\">Newsom said bringing down costs of prescription drugs is a priority\u003c/a> in his veto message. However, he said the state is creating its own line of CalRX biosimilar insulins, which will cost around $30.[aside postID=forum_2010101892595 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/03/Prescription-shelves-George-Frey-via-Getty-Images-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a fraction of the current price for most insulins, and CalRx biosimilar insulins will be available to insured and uninsured patients nationwide,” he wrote. “With CalRx, we are getting at the underlying cost, which is the true sustainable solution to high-cost pharmaceuticals. With copay caps however, the long-term costs are still passed down to consumers through higher premiums from health plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bill that would have decriminalized the possession and use of psychedelics for people over 21\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Those over age 21 who use, or are interested in using, psychedelic treatments for therapeutic purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Senate Bill 58, which was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would’ve decriminalized the possession and ingesting of certain quantities of mescaline; ibogaine; dimethyltryptamine (DMT); and the psychoactive ingredients — psilocybin and psilocin — in hallucinogenic mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-58-Veto-1.pdf\">statement (PDF) \u003c/a>Saturday, Gov. Newsom said “peer-reviewed science and powerful personal anecdotes” have led him to believe psychedelics can relieve people suffering from conditions such as depression, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other addictive personality traits and that this was “an exciting frontier and California will be on the front-end of leading it.” But Newsom refused to sign the bill, saying that it doesn’t have guidelines for the drugs’ therapeutic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Assembly Health Committee hearing in July, Sen. Wiener argued that a “huge number” of people have already been using psychedelics despite the ban, and that decriminalizing these substances would promote responsible use. Numerous clinical trials have also shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959628/california-advocates-push-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-with-therapeutic-benefits\">promising results\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gov. Newsom left the door open for compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge the legislature to send me legislation next year that includes therapeutic guidelines,” read Newsom’s statement. “I am, additionally, committed to working with the legislature and sponsors of this bill to craft legislation that would authorize permissible uses and consider a framework for potential broader decriminalization in the future, once the impacts, dosing, best practice, and safety guardrails are thoroughly contemplated and put in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychiatry.org/getattachment/d5c13619-ca1f-491f-a7a8-b7141c800904/Position-Use-of-Psychedelic-Empathogenic-Agents.pdf\">position statement from July 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the American Psychiatric Association stated “There is currently inadequate scientific evidence for endorsing the use of psychedelics to treat any psychiatric disorder except within the context of approved investigational studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bill that would’ve banned discrimination based on caste\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Members of South Asian communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive? \u003c/strong>Gov. Newsom vetoed SB 403 from state Sen. Aisha Wahab, which would have made California the first state in the nation to ban discrimination on the basis of caste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-403-Veto-1.pdf\">veto message (PDF)\u003c/a>, Newsom said the bill is “unnecessary” because caste discrimination is already prohibited under existing civil rights protections that “shall be liberally construed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters of the bill argue that further legislation is needed in light of the emergence of several high profile discrimination claims in Silicon Valley’s South Asian community that were brought by Dalits, who belong to the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent, and who say they faced blatant prejudice from coworkers and were punished when they tried to speak out. The issue has led to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EqualityLabs/status/1710340631682564401?s=20\">protests and a hunger strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963801\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A South Asian woman in a gray suit speaks into a mic.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-10) speaks during the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade at San Francisco, City Hall on Jan. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly important to civil rights,” said Sen. Wahab, who represents California’s 10th district, including a large South Asian population. “It’s incredibly important to the state of California as we grow more and more diverse. Our laws need to go further and deeper to protect more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle was the first city to pass a caste discrimination ordinance earlier this year, and last month Fresno in the Central Valley also passed a city ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill question the prevalence of caste discrimination in the United States and say the legal focus fuels negative stereotypes of South Asians and Hindus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have offered unemployment to striking workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Workers who are on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Inspired by the widespread strikes in Hollywood and the hotel industry, Senate Bill 799 — sponsored by Burbank Democratic Sen. Anthony Portantino — aimed to\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB799\"> provide Unemployment Insurance to workers\u003c/a> who have been on strike for more than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SB-799-Veto-Message.pdf\">Newsom said he supported the workers, but vetoed the bill (PDF)\u003c/a> over concerns that the bill could significantly increase the number of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits, which are financed by taxes on employers. California borrowed billions of dollars from the federal government to keep the UI fund afloat after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893715/californias-unemployment-fraud-balloons-to-20-billion#:~:text=California%20has%20given%20away%20at,the%20start%20of%20the%20pandemic\">the state paid fraudulent claims during the pandemic.\u003c/a>[aside postID=news_11963061 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1532794346-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any expansion of eligibility for (Unemployment Insurance) benefits could increase California’s outstanding federal UI debt projected to be nearly $20 billion by the end of the year and could jeopardize California’s Benefit Cost Ratio add-on waiver application, significantly increasing taxes on employers,” he wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have extended OSHA protections for domestic workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> An estimated 350,000 domestic workers in California, including nannies, housecleaners and home care aides\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 requires that employers comply with standards that ensure healthy and safe working conditions. However, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB686\">domestic workers are not included in the act’s definition of employment\u003c/a>. Senate Bill 686 is the third attempt by Los Angeles Democrat Sen. María Elena Durazo to change that — and this is the second time Newsom has vetoed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his most recent veto, Newsom said while his administration approved an education grant and advisory committee for domestic workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SB-686-Veto-Message.pdf\">current OSHA regulations were meant for businesses (PDF),\u003c/a> not private individuals. If this bill were to pass, private households employers would need to follow certain obligations, like an eyewash station if workers were using bleach, the governor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The households that employ domestic workers include middle- and low-income families and older Californians who require daily assistance, ranging from personal care to home cleaning to childcare,” Newsom wrote. “I am particularly concerned given that approximately 44% of the households that employ domestic workers are low-income themselves, that this bill creates severe cost burdens and penalties for many people who cannot afford them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a texted statement, Durazo told KQED she was “deeply disappointed that the Governor does not recognize the inherent worth and dignity of the women who care for our homes and families by vetoing SB 686.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Alvarenga, who directs the California Domestic Workers Coalition, said that without the inclusion of domestic workers in health and safety protections, this workforce will continue to face the risk of injury and illness at their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have worked tirelessly over the last four years to create a framework to bring California forward, and the Governor’s office has been unwilling to recognize the women who make up this workforce as equal to other workers,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not back down from this fight,” wrote Alvarenga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A big rig tractor trailer semi truck on a freeway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semitruck on a freeway. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have banned driverless testing of autonomous trucks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> The Teamsters Union, which represents workers like freight drivers and warehouse employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> This bill, introduced by Winters Democratic Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, aimed to require a human driver on board of a self-driving truck. The Teamsters heavily supported this bill, saying the bill is not a ban on self-driving trucks themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather,\u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/2023/08/teamsters-call-on-gov-newsom-to-put-safety-before-big-tech-by-supporting-autonomous-vehicle-bill-ab-316/\"> it protects good jobs and keeps roads safe by requiring a trained human operator behind the wheel\u003c/a> of autonomous vehicles weighing over 10,000 pounds,” a Teamsters’ news release from last month reads, pleading with Newsom to end his opposition to the bill and his support of “Big Tech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in his veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AB-316-Veto-Message.pdf\">Newsom wrote that Assembly Bill 316 was “unnecessary,” (PDF)\u003c/a> and that existing law provides sufficient regulations for self-driving vehicles. Newsom highlights the Department of Motor Vehicles as the body to monitor the testing and operations of automated vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have included a parental recognition of a child’s gender identity in custody disputes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Parents in custody battles, transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Assembly Bill 957 — introduced by Suisun City Democratic Assemblymember Lori Wilson — would require that as the court determined the best interest of a child in a custody proceeding, it should determine a parent’s affirmation of their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill attracted misinformation online, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-slams-california-bill-aimed-at-protecting-trans-kids\">critics like Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk claiming it would take away custody\u003c/a> from parents who chose not to affirm their child’s gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-lgbtq-transgender-california-custody-3cc6d2b5282d6b0e8ba9d1ffc55edeb7\">the bill does not actually suggest this, according to The Associated Press\u003c/a> — and California prioritizes legal joint custody when parents can cooperate with decision-making. When it comes to parent affirmation,\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB957\"> the “bill does not compel the court to come to a particular outcome,”\u003c/a> a state Senate analysis reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his veto, Newsom wrote that he appreciated the passion behind the bill, and shared the commitment to advancing the rights of transgender Californians. However, he said the existing law already takes a child’s health into consideration, and that would include a child’s gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AB-957-Veto-Message.pdf\">That said, I urge caution (PDF)\u003c/a> when the Executive and Legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate — in prescriptive terms that single out one characteristic — legal standards for the Judicial branch to apply,” Newsom wrote. “Other-minded elected officials, in California and other states, could very well use this strategy to diminish the civil rights of vulnerable communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have prevented state prisons from releasing information to ICE in some cases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Incarcerated non-citizens who are set to be released under recent criminal justice reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Assembly Bill 1306 — by Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo — aimed to prohibit the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) from providing any information facilitating transfers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of non-citizens who win release under recent laws aimed at reducing mass incarceration.[aside postID=news_11960794 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-450371241-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe current law strikes the right balance on limiting interaction to support community trust and cooperation between law enforcement and local communities,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AB-1306-Veto-Message.pdf\">Newsom wrote in his veto (PDF)\u003c/a>. “For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wrote that “as an Administration, we recognize that improvements in this process are important,” and as part of this, CDCR would “limit how it communicates with ICE as a federal law enforcement agency, so information is only provided to ICE when a non-citizen individual enters prison and is approaching their release date.” At that point, ICE would then “determine how it will proceed with its enforcement of federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://a52.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230922-assemblywoman-wendy-carrillos-statement-governor-newsom-vetoing-ab-1306#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20am%20disappointed%20in%20Governor,immigrants%20who%20have%20earned%20parole.\">Assemblymember Carrillo expressed her disappointment\u003c/a> at the veto, saying it was never the intention of the Legislature to exclude immigrants from restorative justice reform policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement, Carrillo referred to public records obtained by the ACLU that give a window into CDCR practices. In two months, the agency transferred over 200 people from CDCR facilities to ICE, according to the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/california-prisons-systematically-profile-and-report-suspected-immigrants-ice-new-report\">Emails between CDCR and ICE reveal that prison staff ignore their own records \u003c/a>to flag people for ICE based on racist assumptions about their names, the languages they speak, and where they were born,” the ACLU report reads. “When marked with a ‘potential ICE hold’ — a category invented by CDCR — people are denied rehabilitation, training, education, and credit-earning opportunities, and have little to no recourse to challenge their treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one exchange, an official at Avenal State Prison joked ‘should we just put US citizen on a piece of paper fold it up and put it in a hat, and then write on another piece of paper Mexican, fold it up and also throw that in the hat and pick one,’” the ACLU release reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/30/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-9-30-23/\">Read more of Newsom’s veto messages on the Office of the Governor’s website\u003c/a>. We’ll be updating this story with more notable vetoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero, Tyche Hendricks, Lakshmi Sarah and Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Newsom vetoed more bills Saturday, including one that would ban discrimination based on caste and another that would decriminalize some psychedelics. Here's a look at some of the most notable vetoes Newsom has made so far.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1697575508,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":101,"wordCount":3784},"headData":{"title":"Psychedelics, Caste, High School Condoms and Jury Pay: The Biggest Bills Vetoed by Newsom So Far | KQED","description":"Gov. Newsom vetoed more bills Saturday, including one that would ban discrimination based on caste and another that would decriminalize some psychedelics. Here's a look at some of the most notable vetoes Newsom has made so far.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Psychedelics, Caste, High School Condoms and Jury Pay: The Biggest Bills Vetoed by Newsom So Far","datePublished":"2023-10-07T13:07:09.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-17T20:45:08.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963514/labor-rights-ice-and-self-driving-trucks-the-biggest-bills-vetoed-by-newsom-so-far","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:41 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the time of year when Californians learn which bills their governor has decided to take forward to become state law — and which will be rejected in the process known as vetoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963061/newsom-rejects-bill-to-give-unemployment-checks-to-striking-workers\">Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several bills in September\u003c/a>, with two specifically about labor concerns that have been in heated discussion in California. And \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/politics/gov-newsom-vetoed-three-bills-including-wide-supported-proposal-against-ice-transfers-of-non-citizen-prisoners\">Newsom has hundreds of more bills to look over by October 14\u003c/a>, either to sign them in or veto them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More bills were vetoed by the governor on\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/07/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-10-7-23/\"> October 7\u003c/a>, including a bill that would have banned discrimination on grounds of caste, and one that would have decriminalized the possession and use of psychedelic substances for those over the age of 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.senate.ca.gov/legislativeprocess#:~:text=If%20the%20Governor%20vetoes%20the,needed%20to%20override%20the%20veto.\">If a bill is vetoed by a governor, it goes back to the state Legislature\u003c/a> where it needs a two-thirds vote in both chambers to override the veto. However,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963061/newsom-rejects-bill-to-give-unemployment-checks-to-striking-workers\"> it has been decades since that has happened in California.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for an overview of some of the most notable vetoes Newsom has made so far, starting with his latest. \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/10/\">You can follow a complete list of Newsom’s vetoes on the state’s website\u003c/a> under “Governor Newsom Legislative Updates,” which includes a variety of topics such as hazing in schools, providing broadband access and a cap on campaign finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have required more mental health training for school staff\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 13\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> School staff, students, parents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive? \u003c/strong>State Senator Anthony Portantino (D-Burbank) \u003ca href=\"https://sd25.senate.ca.gov/news/2023-02-14/senator-portantino-introduces-bill-implement-mental-health-education-and-training\">introduced this bill\u003c/a> to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61186/what-parents-need-to-know-about-their-teens-mental-health\">the growing mental health crisis among young Californians\u003c/a>. SB 509 would have mandated youth behavioral health training for all certified staff and for 40 percent of classified employees who interact with students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-509-Veto-Message.pdf\">his veto message\u003c/a>, Newsom said he had concerns with aspects of the bill, including the scope of the training and the “the lack of an appropriate mechanism to fund the bill via the Gun Violence Prevention and School Safety Fund.” He referred to the Department of Finance to propose new language – meaning there is a chance for the bill in January’s state budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have prevented counties from taking foster kids’ money\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Foster children or people once in the foster care system\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/22/988806806/state-foster-care-agencies-take-millions-of-dollars-owed-to-children-in-their-ca\">an investigation by criminal justice outlet The Marshall Project and NPR\u003c/a>, states like Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon have been cracking down on agencies who have been taking benefits from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/california-foster-kids-money/\">foster children’s Social Security checks\u003c/a>. California’s AB 1512 would have prevented counties from using those benefits to pay for the cost of foster care, instead of going to the children directly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, however, said changing this reimbursement practice would cost the state too much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“…This bill creates implementation challenges that should be considered as part of the annual budget process,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-1512-VETO.pdf\">wrote in his veto message\u003c/a>. “Both Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and foster care benefits are intended to provide for the daily care and supervision of youth, including costs for housing and food. If counties are not permitted to use SSI to cover the cost of providing care to foster youth, the General Fund will need to offset those costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have allowed cannabis cafes in California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Businesses, people who use cannabis recreationally\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11963827","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61679_GettyImages-1241629214-qut.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> This bill would have allowed\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963827/newsom-vetoes-more-bills-including-bill-that-would-have-legalized-cannabis-cafes\"> “Amsterdam-style” cannabis cafes in California\u003c/a>, with food and live music. In his message vetoing the bill, Newsom said he was concerned about its conflict with California’s smoke-free workplace protections. The governor said he nonetheless “appreciates the author’s intent to provide cannabis retailers with increased business opportunities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have expanded benefits to Californians, regardless of immigration status\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Undocumented Californians\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1536\">AB 1536 would have extended a state-funded, monthly cash assistance to lower-income aged, blind, or disabled immigrants in California\u003c/a> – regardless of whether they are undocumented or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom vetoed the bill, saying that despite supporting the goal of the bill, he couldn’t approve the policy without funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have paid lower-income jurors $100 for their service\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Lower-income California residents\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Expanding on \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/financialjustice/files/2022-11/Be%20the%20Jury%20Report_Final.pdf\">a San Francisco pilot program called Be the Jury\u003c/a>, this bill would have paid lower-to-moderate income jurors $100 for each day of service, in hopes of making jury duty more accessible and diverse. \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/sf-be-the-jury-ca-duty-pay-la-county-alameda/13434126/\">Californians are currently given $15 a day to serve on a jury.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed called the concept “groundbreaking” in a report about the pilot program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In our country’s history, laws barred certain communities from serving on juries,” said Breed, according to the release. “…Even when those discriminatory laws changed, low-income jurors — many being Black, Asian, Latino — struggled to be able to serve because they couldn’t give up their wages.” Breed called the SF pilot program “the kind of smart, innovative change that will create a more equitable and fair criminal justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-881-VETO.pdf\">Newsom vetoed this for a statewide measure\u003c/a>, citing budget concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have enforced a nurse-to-patient ratio\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Healthcare workers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Encino Democrat Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel introduced a bill that would ask the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to annually review its enforcement of hospital nurse-to-patient ratio and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-1063-VETO.pdf\">submit a public report to the state legislature in January\u003c/a>. Every two years, the CDPH would also have to hold a public hearing to receive input from nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsroom vetoed the bill – amidst\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963568/kaiser-strike-to-end-saturday-but-negotiations-will-continue\"> labor discussions among healthcare workers\u003c/a> at one of California’s largest private insurers, Kaiser Permanente – writing in his message that since the \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-1063-VETO.pdf\">CDPH already “prioritizes open engagement with stakeholders,”\u003c/a> a biennial public hearing would be unnecessary for the state to make changes, and that the information the bill seeks is publicly available.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have prevented public agencies from selling firearms\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Proponents of gun control\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> AB 733 aimed to prohibit public agencies – like police departments – from selling firearms, ammunition and body armor. Newsom wrote in his veto message that while \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AB-733-VETO.pdf\">he applauded the author’s efforts to curb gun violence\u003c/a>, he was “concerned about the cost implications of this legislation” writing that “law enforcement agencies, both local and state, oftentimes sell their firearms to a dealer when they upgrade.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am concerned that this bill, which limits these sales to a dealer who contractually agrees to resell only to a law enforcement agency, will restrict the ability to trade in these firearms and will cost law enforcement agencies across the state millions of dollars,” wrote Newsom – saying that this bill was being proposed “at a time when resources are limited, and staffing is low.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have allowed condoms to be sold to high schoolers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 8\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Proponents of sex-ed, high school age Californians\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Senate Bill 541 would require all public high schools to make free condoms available – and prohibit retailers from refusing to sell to teenagers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said while evidence showed that increasing access to contraceptives improve adolescent sexual health, the bill would cause economic uncertainty for the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With our state facing continuing economic risk and revenue uncertainty,\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-541-Veto-Message.pdf\"> it is important to remain disciplined when considering bills with significant fiscal implications\u003c/a>, such as this measure,” he wrote in his veto message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have capped insulin costs at $35\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 7\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Diabetes patients\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Insulin – \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/health-prices-diabetes-congress-a2f9986b7bf3500b81d1ec80a01e5abb\">an important medication for most people with diabetes that helps control glucose levels\u003c/a> – is uniquely expensive in America, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2019/4/3/18293950/why-is-insulin-so-expensive\">insulin costs tripling in the past decade\u003c/a>. SB90 aimed to cap these costs at $35.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-90-Veto.pdf\">Newsom said bringing down costs of prescription drugs is a priority\u003c/a> in his veto message. However, he said the state is creating its own line of CalRX biosimilar insulins, which will cost around $30.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"forum_2010101892595","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2023/03/Prescription-shelves-George-Frey-via-Getty-Images-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a fraction of the current price for most insulins, and CalRx biosimilar insulins will be available to insured and uninsured patients nationwide,” he wrote. “With CalRx, we are getting at the underlying cost, which is the true sustainable solution to high-cost pharmaceuticals. With copay caps however, the long-term costs are still passed down to consumers through higher premiums from health plans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bill that would have decriminalized the possession and use of psychedelics for people over 21\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Those over age 21 who use, or are interested in using, psychedelic treatments for therapeutic purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Senate Bill 58, which was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), would’ve decriminalized the possession and ingesting of certain quantities of mescaline; ibogaine; dimethyltryptamine (DMT); and the psychoactive ingredients — psilocybin and psilocin — in hallucinogenic mushrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-58-Veto-1.pdf\">statement (PDF) \u003c/a>Saturday, Gov. Newsom said “peer-reviewed science and powerful personal anecdotes” have led him to believe psychedelics can relieve people suffering from conditions such as depression, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and other addictive personality traits and that this was “an exciting frontier and California will be on the front-end of leading it.” But Newsom refused to sign the bill, saying that it doesn’t have guidelines for the drugs’ therapeutic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an Assembly Health Committee hearing in July, Sen. Wiener argued that a “huge number” of people have already been using psychedelics despite the ban, and that decriminalizing these substances would promote responsible use. Numerous clinical trials have also shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959628/california-advocates-push-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-with-therapeutic-benefits\">promising results\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gov. Newsom left the door open for compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I urge the legislature to send me legislation next year that includes therapeutic guidelines,” read Newsom’s statement. “I am, additionally, committed to working with the legislature and sponsors of this bill to craft legislation that would authorize permissible uses and consider a framework for potential broader decriminalization in the future, once the impacts, dosing, best practice, and safety guardrails are thoroughly contemplated and put in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.psychiatry.org/getattachment/d5c13619-ca1f-491f-a7a8-b7141c800904/Position-Use-of-Psychedelic-Empathogenic-Agents.pdf\">position statement from July 2022 (PDF)\u003c/a>, the American Psychiatric Association stated “There is currently inadequate scientific evidence for endorsing the use of psychedelics to treat any psychiatric disorder except within the context of approved investigational studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A bill that would’ve banned discrimination based on caste\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> October 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Members of South Asian communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive? \u003c/strong>Gov. Newsom vetoed SB 403 from state Sen. Aisha Wahab, which would have made California the first state in the nation to ban discrimination on the basis of caste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/SB-403-Veto-1.pdf\">veto message (PDF)\u003c/a>, Newsom said the bill is “unnecessary” because caste discrimination is already prohibited under existing civil rights protections that “shall be liberally construed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supporters of the bill argue that further legislation is needed in light of the emergence of several high profile discrimination claims in Silicon Valley’s South Asian community that were brought by Dalits, who belong to the lowest stratum of the castes in the Indian subcontinent, and who say they faced blatant prejudice from coworkers and were punished when they tried to speak out. The issue has led to \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/EqualityLabs/status/1710340631682564401?s=20\">protests and a hunger strike\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963801\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963801\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A South Asian woman in a gray suit speaks into a mic.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1246541284-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Aisha Wahab (D-10) speaks during the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade at San Francisco, City Hall on Jan. 25, 2023. \u003ccite>(Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s incredibly important to civil rights,” said Sen. Wahab, who represents California’s 10th district, including a large South Asian population. “It’s incredibly important to the state of California as we grow more and more diverse. Our laws need to go further and deeper to protect more people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seattle was the first city to pass a caste discrimination ordinance earlier this year, and last month Fresno in the Central Valley also passed a city ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the bill question the prevalence of caste discrimination in the United States and say the legal focus fuels negative stereotypes of South Asians and Hindus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have offered unemployment to striking workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Workers who are on strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Inspired by the widespread strikes in Hollywood and the hotel industry, Senate Bill 799 — sponsored by Burbank Democratic Sen. Anthony Portantino — aimed to\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB799\"> provide Unemployment Insurance to workers\u003c/a> who have been on strike for more than two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SB-799-Veto-Message.pdf\">Newsom said he supported the workers, but vetoed the bill (PDF)\u003c/a> over concerns that the bill could significantly increase the number of people receiving unemployment insurance benefits, which are financed by taxes on employers. California borrowed billions of dollars from the federal government to keep the UI fund afloat after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893715/californias-unemployment-fraud-balloons-to-20-billion#:~:text=California%20has%20given%20away%20at,the%20start%20of%20the%20pandemic\">the state paid fraudulent claims during the pandemic.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11963061","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/GettyImages-1532794346-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any expansion of eligibility for (Unemployment Insurance) benefits could increase California’s outstanding federal UI debt projected to be nearly $20 billion by the end of the year and could jeopardize California’s Benefit Cost Ratio add-on waiver application, significantly increasing taxes on employers,” he wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have extended OSHA protections for domestic workers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> An estimated 350,000 domestic workers in California, including nannies, housecleaners and home care aides\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> The California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 requires that employers comply with standards that ensure healthy and safe working conditions. However, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB686\">domestic workers are not included in the act’s definition of employment\u003c/a>. Senate Bill 686 is the third attempt by Los Angeles Democrat Sen. María Elena Durazo to change that — and this is the second time Newsom has vetoed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his most recent veto, Newsom said while his administration approved an education grant and advisory committee for domestic workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/SB-686-Veto-Message.pdf\">current OSHA regulations were meant for businesses (PDF),\u003c/a> not private individuals. If this bill were to pass, private households employers would need to follow certain obligations, like an eyewash station if workers were using bleach, the governor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The households that employ domestic workers include middle- and low-income families and older Californians who require daily assistance, ranging from personal care to home cleaning to childcare,” Newsom wrote. “I am particularly concerned given that approximately 44% of the households that employ domestic workers are low-income themselves, that this bill creates severe cost burdens and penalties for many people who cannot afford them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a texted statement, Durazo told KQED she was “deeply disappointed that the Governor does not recognize the inherent worth and dignity of the women who care for our homes and families by vetoing SB 686.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kimberly Alvarenga, who directs the California Domestic Workers Coalition, said that without the inclusion of domestic workers in health and safety protections, this workforce will continue to face the risk of injury and illness at their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have worked tirelessly over the last four years to create a framework to bring California forward, and the Governor’s office has been unwilling to recognize the women who make up this workforce as equal to other workers,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will not back down from this fight,” wrote Alvarenga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963529\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963529\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A big rig tractor trailer semi truck on a freeway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231005-TRUCK-GETTY-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A semitruck on a freeway. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have banned driverless testing of autonomous trucks\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> The Teamsters Union, which represents workers like freight drivers and warehouse employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> This bill, introduced by Winters Democratic Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, aimed to require a human driver on board of a self-driving truck. The Teamsters heavily supported this bill, saying the bill is not a ban on self-driving trucks themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rather,\u003ca href=\"https://teamster.org/2023/08/teamsters-call-on-gov-newsom-to-put-safety-before-big-tech-by-supporting-autonomous-vehicle-bill-ab-316/\"> it protects good jobs and keeps roads safe by requiring a trained human operator behind the wheel\u003c/a> of autonomous vehicles weighing over 10,000 pounds,” a Teamsters’ news release from last month reads, pleading with Newsom to end his opposition to the bill and his support of “Big Tech.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in his veto \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AB-316-Veto-Message.pdf\">Newsom wrote that Assembly Bill 316 was “unnecessary,” (PDF)\u003c/a> and that existing law provides sufficient regulations for self-driving vehicles. Newsom highlights the Department of Motor Vehicles as the body to monitor the testing and operations of automated vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A bill that would have included a parental recognition of a child’s gender identity in custody disputes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Parents in custody battles, transgender children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Assembly Bill 957 — introduced by Suisun City Democratic Assemblymember Lori Wilson — would require that as the court determined the best interest of a child in a custody proceeding, it should determine a parent’s affirmation of their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill attracted misinformation online, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-slams-california-bill-aimed-at-protecting-trans-kids\">critics like Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk claiming it would take away custody\u003c/a> from parents who chose not to affirm their child’s gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/misinformation-lgbtq-transgender-california-custody-3cc6d2b5282d6b0e8ba9d1ffc55edeb7\">the bill does not actually suggest this, according to The Associated Press\u003c/a> — and California prioritizes legal joint custody when parents can cooperate with decision-making. When it comes to parent affirmation,\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB957\"> the “bill does not compel the court to come to a particular outcome,”\u003c/a> a state Senate analysis reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his veto, Newsom wrote that he appreciated the passion behind the bill, and shared the commitment to advancing the rights of transgender Californians. However, he said the existing law already takes a child’s health into consideration, and that would include a child’s gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AB-957-Veto-Message.pdf\">That said, I urge caution (PDF)\u003c/a> when the Executive and Legislative branches of state government attempt to dictate — in prescriptive terms that single out one characteristic — legal standards for the Judicial branch to apply,” Newsom wrote. “Other-minded elected officials, in California and other states, could very well use this strategy to diminish the civil rights of vulnerable communities.”\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\u003ch2>A bill that would have prevented state prisons from releasing information to ICE in some cases\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>When did this veto happen?\u003c/strong> September 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Who does this affect?\u003c/strong> Incarcerated non-citizens who are set to be released under recent criminal justice reforms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the deeper dive?\u003c/strong> Assembly Bill 1306 — by Los Angeles Democratic Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo — aimed to prohibit the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) from providing any information facilitating transfers to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of non-citizens who win release under recent laws aimed at reducing mass incarceration.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11960794","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-450371241-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe current law strikes the right balance on limiting interaction to support community trust and cooperation between law enforcement and local communities,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/AB-1306-Veto-Message.pdf\">Newsom wrote in his veto (PDF)\u003c/a>. “For this reason, I cannot sign this bill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also wrote that “as an Administration, we recognize that improvements in this process are important,” and as part of this, CDCR would “limit how it communicates with ICE as a federal law enforcement agency, so information is only provided to ICE when a non-citizen individual enters prison and is approaching their release date.” At that point, ICE would then “determine how it will proceed with its enforcement of federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://a52.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230922-assemblywoman-wendy-carrillos-statement-governor-newsom-vetoing-ab-1306#:~:text=%E2%80%9CI%20am%20disappointed%20in%20Governor,immigrants%20who%20have%20earned%20parole.\">Assemblymember Carrillo expressed her disappointment\u003c/a> at the veto, saying it was never the intention of the Legislature to exclude immigrants from restorative justice reform policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her statement, Carrillo referred to public records obtained by the ACLU that give a window into CDCR practices. In two months, the agency transferred over 200 people from CDCR facilities to ICE, according to the ACLU.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/news/california-prisons-systematically-profile-and-report-suspected-immigrants-ice-new-report\">Emails between CDCR and ICE reveal that prison staff ignore their own records \u003c/a>to flag people for ICE based on racist assumptions about their names, the languages they speak, and where they were born,” the ACLU report reads. “When marked with a ‘potential ICE hold’ — a category invented by CDCR — people are denied rehabilitation, training, education, and credit-earning opportunities, and have little to no recourse to challenge their treatment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one exchange, an official at Avenal State Prison joked ‘should we just put US citizen on a piece of paper fold it up and put it in a hat, and then write on another piece of paper Mexican, fold it up and also throw that in the hat and pick one,’” the ACLU release reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/30/governor-newsom-issues-legislative-update-9-30-23/\">Read more of Newsom’s veto messages on the Office of the Governor’s website\u003c/a>. We’ll be updating this story with more notable vetoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Farida Jhabvala Romero, Tyche Hendricks, Lakshmi Sarah and Attila Pelit contributed to this story.\u003c/em>\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/11963514/labor-rights-ice-and-self-driving-trucks-the-biggest-bills-vetoed-by-newsom-so-far","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20291","news_16","news_20202","news_19904","news_31005"],"featImg":"news_11963528","label":"news"},"news_11963717":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11963717","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11963717","score":null,"sort":[1696629023000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"amid-kaiser-strike-a-look-at-the-biggest-union-walkouts-in-california-recently","title":"Amid Kaiser Strike, a Look at the Biggest Union Walkouts in California Recently","publishDate":1696629023,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Amid Kaiser Strike, a Look at the Biggest Union Walkouts in California Recently | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/california-unions-kaiser-permanente.html\">The summer of strike\u003c/a> has entered its fall season, as nearly 75,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected\">Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states \u003c/a>are on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963568/kaiser-strike-to-end-saturday-but-negotiations-will-continue\"> last day of their three-day walkout\u003c/a>. This strike by Kaiser staff including X-ray operators, surgical technicians and nursing assistants is now one of the biggest health care work stoppages in U.S. history — involving over 20,000 workers in the Bay Area alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is one of California’s largest private insurers — and its workers have joined thousands of other strikers that brought California’s labor issues national attention, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928545/hollywood-writers-begin-strike-late-night-shows-go-dark\">the writers guild\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955707/actors-now-on-strike-halting-entertainment-industry\">actors guild in Hollywood\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-29/strike-biltmore-hotel-workers-reach-tentative-agreement\">one that centered on the hotel industry in Los Angeles.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/wsp/factsheets/summary-of-work-stoppages-in-the-united-states.htm\">Labor action like this in the United States has gone down in recent decades.\u003c/a> These decreases — noticeable during the recession — are attributed to the growth of the service industry, technology, and declining union membership, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Average annual number of work stoppages by decade in the U.S.\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Uvb3V\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Uvb3V/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when measured by the number of workers walking off the job, some of California’s biggest strikes have taken place in recent years — although these walkouts may also include workers from other states (such as the current Kaiser Permanente protests, which includes states like Colorado and Washington).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few of the biggest labor strikes in California since 1993, according to BLS data. This data includes work stoppages that involve 1,000 workers or more, and the number of workers at the beginning of the strike are rounded to the nearest hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. The current actors strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 160,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following its writers equivalent, the SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) went on strike this July, bringing Hollywood to a standstill. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956178/its-now-or-never-writers-and-actors-see-conflict-with-big-tech-as-existential\">The actors union is still out picketing\u003c/a> over declining pay, residuals in the age of streaming, and the threat of AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writers strike recently ended — and \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/film/news/sag-aftra-amptp-negotiations-day-3-1235745741/\">SAG-AFTRA is planning to meet with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers\u003c/a> Friday and next week for more negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Actors, this time from the 2000s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 135,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little over twenty years prior, \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sag-aftra-strike-20-years-later-1234792060/\">SAG and AFTRA (then two different unions) went on strike\u003c/a> from May 2000 to the end of October 2000, with William Daniels — \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD44rDa1eLo\">Mr. Feeny from \u003cem>Boy Meets World \u003c/em>\u003c/a>— as the SAG president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was contentious among actors, as the strike’s purpose was to argue over how their members were compensated in commercials and led to some non-union actors breaking picket lines and shooting advertisements anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963573\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jones and others strike at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>3. The 2003–2004 Southern California supermarket strikes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 67,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2003 to February 2004, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/us/california-supermarket-strike-deters-shoppers.html\">workers went on strike against Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons Markets\u003c/a> after losing some of their health care benefits — although the number of those striking decreased as time went on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ralphs-vons-albertsons-strike-vote-20190622-story.html\">The chains in question lost a combined $1.5 billion\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Los Angeles Unified School District strikes this year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 65,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three days in March,\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-21/lausd-bus-drivers-teachers-strike\"> education workers — specifically bus drivers, custodians, and cafeteria workers — went on strike\u003c/a> for higher wages to live in an increasingly pricey Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/los-angeles-schools-strike-deal.html\">halting classes for over 400,000 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. University of California in 2018\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 53,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three days in May, thousands of custodians, security guards, gardeners and other service workers at the University of California’s ten campuses went on strike to address pay inequalities. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666919/university-of-california-workers-start-3-day-strike-over-pay\">Nurses, pharmacies, radiologists, and medical workers then joined the walkouts\u003c/a> in a “sympathy strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. University of California’s walkout last year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 48,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California’s ten campuses again saw a strike, this time in 2022 in what was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932147/uc-has-left-us-no-choice-48000-academic-workers-walk-off-job-in-demand-for-better-pay-benefits\">the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education\u003c/a>. Workers included researchers, postdoctoral scholars, tutors and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/only_tanz/status/1592271003211948033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1592271003211948033%7Ctwgr%5E35691c62a2b42bb8930753d8ed09baae7f241240%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11932147%2Fuc-has-left-us-no-choice-48000-academic-workers-walk-off-job-in-demand-for-better-pay-benefits\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7. Los Angeles County government workers in 2000\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 47,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-30-mn-29280-story.html\">Los Angeles County — after struggling in the ’90s — had a booming economy in the 2000s\u003c/a> but workers said they didn’t see the rewards of that in their paychecks. Government workers like animal control officers, part-time librarians and ambulance drivers help \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/10/12/la-county-workers-strike-for-higher-pay/2027af80-e7ef-4bc2-bd44-bfc4e2b205f1/\">rolling strikes in hopes of higher wages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. Kaiser Permanente strikes in 2021\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11896680/thousands-of-kaiser-permanente-staff-join-picket-line-in-solidarity-with-striking-engineers\">engineers walked out over alleged unfair labor practices for two days\u003c/a> — with fellow unions consisting of mental health professionals and pharmacists joining in sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The engineers are a vital part of the facility,” Ron Cook, a patient mobility coach, told KQED in 2021. “When the power goes out and anything happens with lifesaving equipment, it’s the engineers that fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>9. Los Angeles teachers strike in 2019\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 33,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six days, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-21/legacy-of-los-angeles-teachers-strike\">teachers in Los Angeles county walked out\u003c/a> — bringing national attention to the lack of resources public schools face in the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718384/3-reasons-to-pay-attention-to-the-l-a-teacher-strike#:~:text=The%20first%20mass%20teacher%20labor,the%20nation%20should%20pay%20attention.\">It was the first time the Los Angeles union had walked out in 30 years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>10. United Food and Commercial Workers protesting retail grocery chains from the ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 32,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers walked out of Safeway, Lucky Stores, and Save Mart from April 7–15, 1995, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/apr/07/california-safeway-workers-go-on-strike/\">teamsters and truckers refusing to cross the picket line.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The current strike by Kaiser Permanente health care workers is now one of the biggest health care work stoppages in US history. But some of California's biggest strikes ever have also taken place in recent years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1696632563,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":true,"iframeSrcs":["https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Uvb3V/2/"],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":32,"wordCount":1008},"headData":{"title":"Amid Kaiser Strike, a Look at the Biggest Union Walkouts in California Recently | KQED","description":"The current strike by Kaiser Permanente health care workers is now one of the biggest health care work stoppages in US history. But some of California's biggest strikes ever have also taken place in recent years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Amid Kaiser Strike, a Look at the Biggest Union Walkouts in California Recently","datePublished":"2023-10-06T21:50:23.000Z","dateModified":"2023-10-06T22:49:23.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11963717/amid-kaiser-strike-a-look-at-the-biggest-union-walkouts-in-california-recently","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/california-unions-kaiser-permanente.html\">The summer of strike\u003c/a> has entered its fall season, as nearly 75,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963308/kaiser-strike-if-youre-a-patient-what-medical-services-would-be-affected\">Kaiser Permanente health care workers across six states \u003c/a>are on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963568/kaiser-strike-to-end-saturday-but-negotiations-will-continue\"> last day of their three-day walkout\u003c/a>. This strike by Kaiser staff including X-ray operators, surgical technicians and nursing assistants is now one of the biggest health care work stoppages in U.S. history — involving over 20,000 workers in the Bay Area alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser is one of California’s largest private insurers — and its workers have joined thousands of other strikers that brought California’s labor issues national attention, such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13928545/hollywood-writers-begin-strike-late-night-shows-go-dark\">the writers guild\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955707/actors-now-on-strike-halting-entertainment-industry\">actors guild in Hollywood\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-09-29/strike-biltmore-hotel-workers-reach-tentative-agreement\">one that centered on the hotel industry in Los Angeles.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/wsp/factsheets/summary-of-work-stoppages-in-the-united-states.htm\">Labor action like this in the United States has gone down in recent decades.\u003c/a> These decreases — noticeable during the recession — are attributed to the growth of the service industry, technology, and declining union membership, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Average annual number of work stoppages by decade in the U.S.\" aria-label=\"Column Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-Uvb3V\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Uvb3V/2/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when measured by the number of workers walking off the job, some of California’s biggest strikes have taken place in recent years — although these walkouts may also include workers from other states (such as the current Kaiser Permanente protests, which includes states like Colorado and Washington).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are a few of the biggest labor strikes in California since 1993, according to BLS data. This data includes work stoppages that involve 1,000 workers or more, and the number of workers at the beginning of the strike are rounded to the nearest hundred.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. The current actors strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 160,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following its writers equivalent, the SAG-AFTRA (Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) went on strike this July, bringing Hollywood to a standstill. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956178/its-now-or-never-writers-and-actors-see-conflict-with-big-tech-as-existential\">The actors union is still out picketing\u003c/a> over declining pay, residuals in the age of streaming, and the threat of AI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The writers strike recently ended — and \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/film/news/sag-aftra-amptp-negotiations-day-3-1235745741/\">SAG-AFTRA is planning to meet with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers\u003c/a> Friday and next week for more negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Actors, this time from the 2000s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 135,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A little over twenty years prior, \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/sag-aftra-strike-20-years-later-1234792060/\">SAG and AFTRA (then two different unions) went on strike\u003c/a> from May 2000 to the end of October 2000, with William Daniels — \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD44rDa1eLo\">Mr. Feeny from \u003cem>Boy Meets World \u003c/em>\u003c/a>— as the SAG president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was contentious among actors, as the strike’s purpose was to argue over how their members were compensated in commercials and led to some non-union actors breaking picket lines and shooting advertisements anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963573\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11963573\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231004-KAISER-STRIKE-MD-02-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Jones and others strike at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland on Oct. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>3. The 2003–2004 Southern California supermarket strikes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 67,300.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2003 to February 2004, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/us/california-supermarket-strike-deters-shoppers.html\">workers went on strike against Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons Markets\u003c/a> after losing some of their health care benefits — although the number of those striking decreased as time went on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ralphs-vons-albertsons-strike-vote-20190622-story.html\">The chains in question lost a combined $1.5 billion\u003c/a>, according to the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Los Angeles Unified School District strikes this year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 65,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three days in March,\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-21/lausd-bus-drivers-teachers-strike\"> education workers — specifically bus drivers, custodians, and cafeteria workers — went on strike\u003c/a> for higher wages to live in an increasingly pricey Southern California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/us/los-angeles-schools-strike-deal.html\">halting classes for over 400,000 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. University of California in 2018\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 53,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For three days in May, thousands of custodians, security guards, gardeners and other service workers at the University of California’s ten campuses went on strike to address pay inequalities. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11666919/university-of-california-workers-start-3-day-strike-over-pay\">Nurses, pharmacies, radiologists, and medical workers then joined the walkouts\u003c/a> in a “sympathy strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. University of California’s walkout last year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 48,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California’s ten campuses again saw a strike, this time in 2022 in what was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11932147/uc-has-left-us-no-choice-48000-academic-workers-walk-off-job-in-demand-for-better-pay-benefits\">the largest strike in the history of U.S. higher education\u003c/a>. Workers included researchers, postdoctoral scholars, tutors and more.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1592271003211948033"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch2>7. Los Angeles County government workers in 2000\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 47,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-sep-30-mn-29280-story.html\">Los Angeles County — after struggling in the ’90s — had a booming economy in the 2000s\u003c/a> but workers said they didn’t see the rewards of that in their paychecks. Government workers like animal control officers, part-time librarians and ambulance drivers help \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/10/12/la-county-workers-strike-for-higher-pay/2027af80-e7ef-4bc2-bd44-bfc4e2b205f1/\">rolling strikes in hopes of higher wages.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>8. Kaiser Permanente strikes in 2021\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 40,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11896680/thousands-of-kaiser-permanente-staff-join-picket-line-in-solidarity-with-striking-engineers\">engineers walked out over alleged unfair labor practices for two days\u003c/a> — with fellow unions consisting of mental health professionals and pharmacists joining in sympathy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The engineers are a vital part of the facility,” Ron Cook, a patient mobility coach, told KQED in 2021. “When the power goes out and anything happens with lifesaving equipment, it’s the engineers that fix it.”\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\u003ch2>9. Los Angeles teachers strike in 2019\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 33,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six days, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-01-21/legacy-of-los-angeles-teachers-strike\">teachers in Los Angeles county walked out\u003c/a> — bringing national attention to the lack of resources public schools face in the United States. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11718384/3-reasons-to-pay-attention-to-the-l-a-teacher-strike#:~:text=The%20first%20mass%20teacher%20labor,the%20nation%20should%20pay%20attention.\">It was the first time the Los Angeles union had walked out in 30 years.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>10. United Food and Commercial Workers protesting retail grocery chains from the ’90s\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many workers on strike?\u003c/strong> Around 32,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers walked out of Safeway, Lucky Stores, and Save Mart from April 7–15, 1995, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/apr/07/california-safeway-workers-go-on-strike/\">teamsters and truckers refusing to cross the picket line.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11963717/amid-kaiser-strike-a-look-at-the-biggest-union-walkouts-in-california-recently","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_19904","news_31005","news_31988"],"featImg":"news_11963747","label":"news"},"news_11947102":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11947102","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11947102","score":null,"sort":[1681948532000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"workers-at-oakland-childrens-hospital-stage-1-day-strike-demanding-better-working-conditions-and-services","title":"Workers at Oakland Children's Hospital Stage 1-Day Strike, Demanding Better Working Conditions and Services","publishDate":1681948532,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Workers at Oakland Children’s Hospital Stage 1-Day Strike, Demanding Better Working Conditions and Services | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Hundreds of workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland walked off the job Wednesday in a one-day strike over job security and protecting medical services in the East Bay, chanting, “UC, UC, you can’t hide … We can see your greedy side!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vocational nurses, mental health staff, physical therapists and housekeepers were among the broad swath of workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, who formed an early morning picket line as the sun rose outside the North Oakland hospital — in what the union is calling the largest strike in the hospital’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers have been without contracts since last year, amid stalled negotiations with UCSF Health, which took over most hospital operations in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, the union says, UCSF has cut crucial services and failed to adequately invest in its workforce, resulting in severe staffing shortages in some departments and reduced access to a variety of programs and procedures that many lower-income East Bay families have long relied on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Job security is the one thing that seems at the heart of all of this,” said Susana Yerian, a Spanish medical interpreter who translates for families who come in for pediatric surgery. “We just want to be able to provide care and not have anxiety about losing our job or not having a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fears of further cutbacks have only increased after UCSF recently projected a $200 million budget shortfall in 2023 and warned that it must “operate more efficiently,” according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11947188 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg\" alt=\"Throngs of protestors in red T-shirts hold red and yellow picket signs outside of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital employees and supporters gather for a rally outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023, during a one-day strike authorized by more than 1,200 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers at the Oakland and Walnut Creek hospitals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re understaffed, and patients are underserved,” said Stephanie Lum Ho, an office associate at the hospital’s Walnut Creek outpatient center, where workers also picketed on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with a push for expanded services at the facility, the union says UCSF has rejected its key demands that workers receive the same compensation as their counterparts at UCSF facilities in San Francisco and be guaranteed comparable jobs if the company takes full control of the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s walkout follows a long succession of recent local and national labor actions, particularly in the health care sector, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">10-week strike last fall\u003c/a> waged by Kaiser Permanente mental health workers in Northern California, and a shorter walkout in late December \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Nurses-at-Alta-Bates-Summit-plan-to-strike-17652715.php\">among registered nurses\u003c/a> at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jackie Schalit, children’s mental health clinician, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland\"]‘We love the population that we work with. We love the kids. But to be disrespected by UCSF, and to be told they know better than the folks on the front lines, is just really, really upsetting.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Schalit, a children’s mental health clinician at the hospital and part of the union’s bargaining team, says staffing in her department has been slashed in half under UCSF’s leadership, with a growing number of programs squeezed, shut down altogether or relocated to offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love the population that we work with. We love the kids,” she said. “But to be disrespected by UCSF, and to be told they know better than the folks on the front lines, is just really, really upsetting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is one of five Level One pediatric trauma centers in California; the hospital accepts all patients no matter their income level or insurance status, and more than 70% of patients get their health coverage through Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schalit, who has worked at the hospital for more than 20 years, said she was drawn to the Oakland institution for the community-centered services it has historically provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt so proud to work there. And it’s changed,” she said, noting that many of her young patients now have to wait months for services like occupational therapy — and are forced to travel to San Francisco for an increasing number of other basic services, like speech therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11947189 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg\" alt=\"Throngs of protestors in red T-shirts hold red and yellow picket signs outside of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. Workers staged a one-day strike demanding better working conditions and preserving services in the East Bay for their patients. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do you afford that? That’s not easy for a family that’s impacted by lots of different things,” Schalit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital will continue to provide critical health care services throughout the day, with the help of replacement staff, and its emergency room will remain open, but all outpatient services throughout the region will be closed, UCSF said in a statement.[aside label='More Stories on Health Care' tag='health-care']In the statement, UCSF also said it had made its “last, best, and final offer” to the union on Friday, one that would provide most NUHW-represented employees a pay increase of at least 13%. The company said it had also agreed to most of the union’s job-security and enhanced severance demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked hard to develop a proposal that honors the excellent work of our employees while preserving our ability to continue caring for children in our community,” UCSF said. “We’re disappointed the union rejected our final offer late Sunday night and is choosing to engage in a costly and disruptive strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s claim that UCSF was not committed to serving Oakland and East Bay communities was “simply not true,” the company said. It noted that the number of NUHW-represented employees at the hospital has steadily increased since 2018 and that UCSF is now investing $1.5 billion in modernizing its Oakland facilities and constructing a new hospital building to expand services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s April Dembosky.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hospital workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers have been without contracts since last year, amid stalled negotiations with hospital administrator UCSF Health.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1681951366,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1044},"headData":{"title":"Workers at Oakland Children's Hospital Stage 1-Day Strike, Demanding Better Working Conditions and Services | KQED","description":"Hospital workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers have been without contracts since last year, amid stalled negotiations with hospital administrator UCSF Health.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Workers at Oakland Children's Hospital Stage 1-Day Strike, Demanding Better Working Conditions and 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side!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vocational nurses, mental health staff, physical therapists and housekeepers were among the broad swath of workers represented by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, who formed an early morning picket line as the sun rose outside the North Oakland hospital — in what the union is calling the largest strike in the hospital’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers have been without contracts since last year, amid stalled negotiations with UCSF Health, which took over most hospital operations in 2014.\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>Since then, the union says, UCSF has cut crucial services and failed to adequately invest in its workforce, resulting in severe staffing shortages in some departments and reduced access to a variety of programs and procedures that many lower-income East Bay families have long relied on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Job security is the one thing that seems at the heart of all of this,” said Susana Yerian, a Spanish medical interpreter who translates for families who come in for pediatric surgery. “We just want to be able to provide care and not have anxiety about losing our job or not having a job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fears of further cutbacks have only increased after UCSF recently projected a $200 million budget shortfall in 2023 and warned that it must “operate more efficiently,” according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11947188 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg\" alt=\"Throngs of protestors in red T-shirts hold red and yellow picket signs outside of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/018_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital employees and supporters gather for a rally outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023, during a one-day strike authorized by more than 1,200 members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers at the Oakland and Walnut Creek hospitals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re understaffed, and patients are underserved,” said Stephanie Lum Ho, an office associate at the hospital’s Walnut Creek outpatient center, where workers also picketed on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with a push for expanded services at the facility, the union says UCSF has rejected its key demands that workers receive the same compensation as their counterparts at UCSF facilities in San Francisco and be guaranteed comparable jobs if the company takes full control of the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s walkout follows a long succession of recent local and national labor actions, particularly in the health care sector, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11929713/kaiser-mental-health-workers-appove-new-contract-ending-10-week-strike\">10-week strike last fall\u003c/a> waged by Kaiser Permanente mental health workers in Northern California, and a shorter walkout in late December \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Nurses-at-Alta-Bates-Summit-plan-to-strike-17652715.php\">among registered nurses\u003c/a> at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland and Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We love the population that we work with. We love the kids. But to be disrespected by UCSF, and to be told they know better than the folks on the front lines, is just really, really upsetting.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jackie Schalit, children’s mental health clinician, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Schalit, a children’s mental health clinician at the hospital and part of the union’s bargaining team, says staffing in her department has been slashed in half under UCSF’s leadership, with a growing number of programs squeezed, shut down altogether or relocated to offices in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We love the population that we work with. We love the kids,” she said. “But to be disrespected by UCSF, and to be told they know better than the folks on the front lines, is just really, really upsetting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is one of five Level One pediatric trauma centers in California; the hospital accepts all patients no matter their income level or insurance status, and more than 70% of patients get their health coverage through Medi-Cal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schalit, who has worked at the hospital for more than 20 years, said she was drawn to the Oakland institution for the community-centered services it has historically provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt so proud to work there. And it’s changed,” she said, noting that many of her young patients now have to wait months for services like occupational therapy — and are forced to travel to San Francisco for an increasing number of other basic services, like speech therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947189\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11947189 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg\" alt=\"Throngs of protestors in red T-shirts hold red and yellow picket signs outside of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/013_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rally outside UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. Workers staged a one-day strike demanding better working conditions and preserving services in the East Bay for their patients. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“How do you afford that? That’s not easy for a family that’s impacted by lots of different things,” Schalit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospital will continue to provide critical health care services throughout the day, with the help of replacement staff, and its emergency room will remain open, but all outpatient services throughout the region will be closed, UCSF said in a statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Stories on Health Care ","tag":"health-care"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In the statement, UCSF also said it had made its “last, best, and final offer” to the union on Friday, one that would provide most NUHW-represented employees a pay increase of at least 13%. The company said it had also agreed to most of the union’s job-security and enhanced severance demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We worked hard to develop a proposal that honors the excellent work of our employees while preserving our ability to continue caring for children in our community,” UCSF said. “We’re disappointed the union rejected our final offer late Sunday night and is choosing to engage in a costly and disruptive strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union’s claim that UCSF was not committed to serving Oakland and East Bay communities was “simply not true,” the company said. It noted that the number of NUHW-represented employees at the hospital has steadily increased since 2018 and that UCSF is now investing $1.5 billion in modernizing its Oakland facilities and constructing a new hospital building to expand services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s April Dembosky.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11947102/workers-at-oakland-childrens-hospital-stage-1-day-strike-demanding-better-working-conditions-and-services","authors":["1263"],"series":["news_17411"],"categories":["news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_5444","news_27626","news_683","news_32652","news_31005","news_31295"],"featImg":"news_11947190","label":"source_news_11947102"},"news_11912101":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912101","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912101","score":null,"sort":[1651537827000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"chevron-calls-to-police-during-strike-prompt-pushback-strain-on-resources","title":"Chevron Calls to Police During Strike Prompt Pushback, Strain on Resources","publishDate":1651537827,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Officials at Chevron's Richmond refinery have called police dozens of times in recent weeks to respond to the facility during a strike that's now entering its seventh week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls come on the heels of financial arrangements worth tens of thousands of dollars that the oil giant made with the Richmond and San Pablo police departments in response to the labor dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks before the walkout, a group of Richmond police officers were put on standby in case they were needed at the refinery. During the first week of April, Chevron paid the San Pablo Police Department to put officers at the facility's gates. Chevron agreed to pay overtime to both departments to make officers available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union behind the strike calls the police contracts and the company's repeated calls to Richmond police an attempt to intimidate strikers. A top Richmond police official says the work has strained the understaffed department. And a member of the Richmond City Council says the police presence is a problematic use of public law enforcement resources at a time when staffing is strained.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fred Glass, instructor in labor and community studies, City College of San Francisco\"]'Most strikes are quite law-abiding, so the use of private security or off-duty police — or for that matter on-duty police — is usually more meant to intimidate than actually protect anything.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are we deploying our police officers to support a corporation like Chevron?\" said Richmond City Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, a critic of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/-/media/chevron/stories/documents/1Q22-earnings-press-release.pdf\">Chevron announced a profit of $6.3 billion\u003c/a> for the first three months of this year, more than quadruple its earnings for the same period a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police presence at the Richmond refinery is one element of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908916/a-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labor conflict\u003c/a> that sees no signs of ending. Chevron and leaders of United Steelworkers Local 5 have met several times since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908722/they-own-the-oil-but-the-people-are-ours-workers-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the walkout began March 21\u003c/a>. Neither the company nor the union has indicated that a resolution on the sticking points, which include worker safety as well as pay and benefits, is close.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Chevron understands the optics'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four days after the strike began, the refinery's security director asked four law enforcement agencies whether they could station officers outside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was asked to reach out to you and any other police agencies to see if there is any interest in providing, on Chevron paid overtime, uniformed officers to assist in keeping traffic flowing around the refinery,\" wrote Chevron Security Director Daryl Jackson in a March 25 email to the California Highway Patrol and Richmond, San Pablo and El Cerrito police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email, obtained by KQED through California Public Records Act requests, describes the job as a \"24/7 operation.\" Two officers would be deployed during the day and two at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron understands the optics, but I've seen some very dangerous vehicle opportunities and those optics have the opportunity to look bad as well,\" Jackson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hours later, San Pablo Police Chief Ron Raman wrote back, asking whether any of the other law enforcement agencies expressed interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crickets. Nothing. Nada,\" Jackson replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wow. Our rate would be close to $200 an offer [sic] per hour. I can try to fill but it's kind of last minute,\" Raman wrote. Five days later Chevron and San Pablo police officials began trading emails in order to create a contract, marking the first time that police department ever agreed to such a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Due to the imminent and ongoing public safety concerns of the events of the refinery, the police department agreed to provide support in the interest of the West Contra Costa County community,\" Raman told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Richmond officers deploy to refinery amid staffing shortages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A top Richmond police officer replied to Chevron's security manager on March 28 in a message that laid bare how strained that department has become.[aside postID=\"news_11908852,news_11908916,news_11908722\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\"We can post an overtime sign-up to see if we garner any interest. However, our patrol officers are currently being forced over on multiple 16-18 hours shifts each week, on forced overtime (minimum staffing),\" wrote Capt. Timothy Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons told Chevron the department had already posted overtime opportunities for officers on several other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these assignments routinely go unfilled because officers are tapped out. We will do our best,\" wrote Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED on Friday, Simmons said that before that exchange, Chevron had arranged for Richmond police officers to be ready in case there was trouble outside the refinery in the weeks leading up to the walkout. Those officers were paid overtime for being on call, but were never sent to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since then, Chevron has called Richmond police frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's calls for service almost every day down there,\" Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has been asking police to clear roads so trucks can drive in and out of the facility. On occasion, officers are asked to respond to complaints of loud music on the picket line. On several occasions, Chevron has reported that one of its managers or contract workers has been assaulted, though police have never been able to substantiate those allegations and have made no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons says the refinery calls have exacerbated pressure on a department that's suffering from a shortage of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the leanest I have ever seen it,\" said Simmons, a 13-year veteran of the department. \"We are reaching critical mass staffing levels,\" he added, saying that last week, all officers were ordered to sign up for overtime shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They [Chevron] are a major customer in our city. And we're getting called down there often. It takes away from other things that that beat officer could be doing,\" Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emails: Nonunion workers stayed inside refinery for over a week\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson, the Chevron security official, asked police agencies for help on April 1 in a message that revealed that non-striking refinery workers had been sleeping at the facility since the walkout began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The refinery is re-posturing itself by now allowing the initial workforce to go home for a day or two. This workforce, just like myself, were considered essential workers and have been living within the refinery property since March 20,\" Jackson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope to have an orderly transition during that shift change period and having marked units assisting in that endeavor would be great,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of law enforcement by companies involved in strikes is very much a part of our nation's labor history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Strikes with large numbers of workers are more likely to see companies bring in the 'rent-a-cops' than smaller ones,\" said Fred Glass, an instructor in labor and community studies at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police response to Bay Area labor disputes has sometimes led to historic episodes of violence. In a 1934 strike, longshore workers shut down the port of San Francisco. Police opened fire on strikers, killing two workers and triggering a general strike in the city. During Oakland's general strike in 1946, police beat strikers on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most strikes are quite law-abiding, so the use of private security or off-duty police — or for that matter on-duty police — is usually more meant to intimidate than actually protect anything,\" said Glass, author of \"From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top local United Steelworkers union official says the police arrangements at Chevron's Richmond refinery paint unionized striking workers unfairly as lawbreakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only reason I think you would have all that is to intimidate our people. But our people are not doing anything wrong. They're conducting themselves well on the picket lines,\" said B.K. White, vice president of USW Local 5, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A jurisdiction miles away from San Pablo'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's security manager for the most part seemed happy with the work San Pablo officers did but sent an email to the department's Capt. Brian Bubar on April 6, highlighting an interaction he did not like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said Chevron firefighters in the area of the picketers told him an unidentified San Pablo police officer expressed support for the striking workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand that officers, of which you know I was one for 33 years, can have an opinion,\" Jackson wrote. \"There's a time and place to express that opinion. This wasn't one of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubar wrote back, telling Jackson he understood and agreed. He emphasized that his officers were there to \"keep the peace\" and said that there had been several incidents they'd worked to deescalate involving \"both sides.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the challenges of the situation and the officers are doing their best not to get involved politically,\" Bubar wrote. \"I hope Chevron staff understands that challenge as we're trying to navigate through this in a jurisdiction miles away from San Pablo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo Police Chief Raman says his officers were deployed for five days, from April 4 to April 8, and that there are no plans to redeploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chevron defends deployments, councilmember challenges them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron says the police deployments are aimed at managing traffic into and out of the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've appreciated the help of some local off-duty officers,\" said refinery spokesperson Linsi Crain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, on a webpage titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://richmond.chevron.com/uswstrike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USW Local 5 Strike at Chevron Richmond\u003c/a>,\" says hiring local police officers is a regular occurrence and that the Richmond and San Pablo officers \"encourage safe and smooth movement through gates at times of increased in and out flow of our workforce, supplies and products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Councilmember Jimenez — a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which backs USW Local 5 — says it's concerning the city would agree to put police officers on standby for Chevron at a time when the department is having a tough time responding to local 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a problem in terms of how the Richmond Police Department decides what's more important to deploy services,\" Jimenez said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police have yet to outline a full accounting of how much Chevron paid for the department's officers to be on standby before the strike, but the price tag is expected to be in the thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo police sent an invoice recently to Chevron for $27,500 for the work its officers did the first week of April, according to Chief Raman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The union representing refinery workers calls Chevron's police deployment a bully tactic.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1651537827,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":49,"wordCount":1770},"headData":{"title":"Chevron Calls to Police During Strike Prompt Pushback, Strain on Resources | KQED","description":"The union representing refinery workers calls Chevron's police deployment a bully tactic.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Chevron Calls to Police During Strike Prompt Pushback, Strain on Resources","datePublished":"2022-05-03T00:30:27.000Z","dateModified":"2022-05-03T00:30:27.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"disqusIdentifier":"11912101 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11912101","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/02/chevron-calls-to-police-during-strike-prompt-pushback-strain-on-resources/","disqusTitle":"Chevron Calls to Police During Strike Prompt Pushback, Strain on Resources","subhead":"Richmond Police have been called to the refinery almost every day during the walkout. ","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11912101/chevron-calls-to-police-during-strike-prompt-pushback-strain-on-resources","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Officials at Chevron's Richmond refinery have called police dozens of times in recent weeks to respond to the facility during a strike that's now entering its seventh week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The calls come on the heels of financial arrangements worth tens of thousands of dollars that the oil giant made with the Richmond and San Pablo police departments in response to the labor dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks before the walkout, a group of Richmond police officers were put on standby in case they were needed at the refinery. During the first week of April, Chevron paid the San Pablo Police Department to put officers at the facility's gates. Chevron agreed to pay overtime to both departments to make officers available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union behind the strike calls the police contracts and the company's repeated calls to Richmond police an attempt to intimidate strikers. A top Richmond police official says the work has strained the understaffed department. And a member of the Richmond City Council says the police presence is a problematic use of public law enforcement resources at a time when staffing is strained.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Most strikes are quite law-abiding, so the use of private security or off-duty police — or for that matter on-duty police — is usually more meant to intimidate than actually protect anything.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Fred Glass, instructor in labor and community studies, City College of San Francisco","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are we deploying our police officers to support a corporation like Chevron?\" said Richmond City Councilmember Claudia Jimenez, a critic of the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.chevron.com/-/media/chevron/stories/documents/1Q22-earnings-press-release.pdf\">Chevron announced a profit of $6.3 billion\u003c/a> for the first three months of this year, more than quadruple its earnings for the same period a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police presence at the Richmond refinery is one element of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908916/a-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">labor conflict\u003c/a> that sees no signs of ending. Chevron and leaders of United Steelworkers Local 5 have met several times since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908722/they-own-the-oil-but-the-people-are-ours-workers-strike-at-chevrons-richmond-refinery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the walkout began March 21\u003c/a>. Neither the company nor the union has indicated that a resolution on the sticking points, which include worker safety as well as pay and benefits, is close.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'Chevron understands the optics'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Four days after the strike began, the refinery's security director asked four law enforcement agencies whether they could station officers outside the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was asked to reach out to you and any other police agencies to see if there is any interest in providing, on Chevron paid overtime, uniformed officers to assist in keeping traffic flowing around the refinery,\" wrote Chevron Security Director Daryl Jackson in a March 25 email to the California Highway Patrol and Richmond, San Pablo and El Cerrito police departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email, obtained by KQED through California Public Records Act requests, describes the job as a \"24/7 operation.\" Two officers would be deployed during the day and two at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Chevron understands the optics, but I've seen some very dangerous vehicle opportunities and those optics have the opportunity to look bad as well,\" Jackson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several hours later, San Pablo Police Chief Ron Raman wrote back, asking whether any of the other law enforcement agencies expressed interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crickets. Nothing. Nada,\" Jackson replied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wow. Our rate would be close to $200 an offer [sic] per hour. I can try to fill but it's kind of last minute,\" Raman wrote. Five days later Chevron and San Pablo police officials began trading emails in order to create a contract, marking the first time that police department ever agreed to such a deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Due to the imminent and ongoing public safety concerns of the events of the refinery, the police department agreed to provide support in the interest of the West Contra Costa County community,\" Raman told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Richmond officers deploy to refinery amid staffing shortages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A top Richmond police officer replied to Chevron's security manager on March 28 in a message that laid bare how strained that department has become.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11908852,news_11908916,news_11908722","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\"We can post an overtime sign-up to see if we garner any interest. However, our patrol officers are currently being forced over on multiple 16-18 hours shifts each week, on forced overtime (minimum staffing),\" wrote Capt. Timothy Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons told Chevron the department had already posted overtime opportunities for officers on several other projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"All of these assignments routinely go unfilled because officers are tapped out. We will do our best,\" wrote Simmons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED on Friday, Simmons said that before that exchange, Chevron had arranged for Richmond police officers to be ready in case there was trouble outside the refinery in the weeks leading up to the walkout. Those officers were paid overtime for being on call, but were never sent to the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But since then, Chevron has called Richmond police frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's calls for service almost every day down there,\" Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company has been asking police to clear roads so trucks can drive in and out of the facility. On occasion, officers are asked to respond to complaints of loud music on the picket line. On several occasions, Chevron has reported that one of its managers or contract workers has been assaulted, though police have never been able to substantiate those allegations and have made no arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons says the refinery calls have exacerbated pressure on a department that's suffering from a shortage of officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is the leanest I have ever seen it,\" said Simmons, a 13-year veteran of the department. \"We are reaching critical mass staffing levels,\" he added, saying that last week, all officers were ordered to sign up for overtime shifts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They [Chevron] are a major customer in our city. And we're getting called down there often. It takes away from other things that that beat officer could be doing,\" Simmons said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Emails: Nonunion workers stayed inside refinery for over a week\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson, the Chevron security official, asked police agencies for help on April 1 in a message that revealed that non-striking refinery workers had been sleeping at the facility since the walkout began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The refinery is re-posturing itself by now allowing the initial workforce to go home for a day or two. This workforce, just like myself, were considered essential workers and have been living within the refinery property since March 20,\" Jackson wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I hope to have an orderly transition during that shift change period and having marked units assisting in that endeavor would be great,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The use of law enforcement by companies involved in strikes is very much a part of our nation's labor history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Strikes with large numbers of workers are more likely to see companies bring in the 'rent-a-cops' than smaller ones,\" said Fred Glass, an instructor in labor and community studies at City College of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police response to Bay Area labor disputes has sometimes led to historic episodes of violence. In a 1934 strike, longshore workers shut down the port of San Francisco. Police opened fire on strikers, killing two workers and triggering a general strike in the city. During Oakland's general strike in 1946, police beat strikers on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Most strikes are quite law-abiding, so the use of private security or off-duty police — or for that matter on-duty police — is usually more meant to intimidate than actually protect anything,\" said Glass, author of \"From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A top local United Steelworkers union official says the police arrangements at Chevron's Richmond refinery paint unionized striking workers unfairly as lawbreakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The only reason I think you would have all that is to intimidate our people. But our people are not doing anything wrong. They're conducting themselves well on the picket lines,\" said B.K. White, vice president of USW Local 5, in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'A jurisdiction miles away from San Pablo'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron's security manager for the most part seemed happy with the work San Pablo officers did but sent an email to the department's Capt. Brian Bubar on April 6, highlighting an interaction he did not like.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said Chevron firefighters in the area of the picketers told him an unidentified San Pablo police officer expressed support for the striking workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand that officers, of which you know I was one for 33 years, can have an opinion,\" Jackson wrote. \"There's a time and place to express that opinion. This wasn't one of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bubar wrote back, telling Jackson he understood and agreed. He emphasized that his officers were there to \"keep the peace\" and said that there had been several incidents they'd worked to deescalate involving \"both sides.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I understand the challenges of the situation and the officers are doing their best not to get involved politically,\" Bubar wrote. \"I hope Chevron staff understands that challenge as we're trying to navigate through this in a jurisdiction miles away from San Pablo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo Police Chief Raman says his officers were deployed for five days, from April 4 to April 8, and that there are no plans to redeploy officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Chevron defends deployments, councilmember challenges them\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Chevron says the police deployments are aimed at managing traffic into and out of the refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've appreciated the help of some local off-duty officers,\" said refinery spokesperson Linsi Crain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, on a webpage titled \"\u003ca href=\"https://richmond.chevron.com/uswstrike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USW Local 5 Strike at Chevron Richmond\u003c/a>,\" says hiring local police officers is a regular occurrence and that the Richmond and San Pablo officers \"encourage safe and smooth movement through gates at times of increased in and out flow of our workforce, supplies and products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond Councilmember Jimenez — a member of the Richmond Progressive Alliance, which backs USW Local 5 — says it's concerning the city would agree to put police officers on standby for Chevron at a time when the department is having a tough time responding to local 911 calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a problem in terms of how the Richmond Police Department decides what's more important to deploy services,\" Jimenez said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richmond police have yet to outline a full accounting of how much Chevron paid for the department's officers to be on standby before the strike, but the price tag is expected to be in the thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Pablo police sent an invoice recently to Chevron for $27,500 for the work its officers did the first week of April, according to Chief Raman.\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>\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/11912101/chevron-calls-to-police-during-strike-prompt-pushback-strain-on-resources","authors":["258"],"categories":["news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_424","news_29152","news_579","news_23011","news_31005","news_31006"],"featImg":"news_11912228","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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