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For instance, setting up a cool-down area would be impractical for small restaurants renting a locale, said Robert Moutrie, a senior policy advocate with the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moutrie told KQED it would be unfair for the state to exempt one of its agencies because of potentially massive costs while making private employers pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are a little disappointed to see the cost to the state treated differently than the cost for private employers,” Moutrie said. “We understand the state budget is terrible this year, and we have to be pragmatic. 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One possible reason: While California requires employers to reduce the risks of heat illness for outdoor workers, a comparable rule still isn’t on the books for indoor workers. And though state lawmakers ordered one in 2016 and set a 2019 deadline, it won’t be until next month when the state is finally expected to adopt a rule to go into effect by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shane Gusman, lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during discussions\"]‘There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this. It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.’[/pullquote]Excessive heat can cause nausea, vomiting, fainting, and, in the most extreme cases, heat stroke, leading to organ damage or death. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from indoor heat from 2010 through 2017. In recent years, summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/these-southern-california-temperatures-are-now-the-highest-ever-recorded/\">across southern California\u003c/a> have broken historical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon disputed the citation and said it is appealing. It said that its San Bernardino air hub is air-conditioned, workers are encouraged to take breaks, and the company generally supports an indoor heat standard. It declined to comment on the state’s proposed rule. “We’ve seen the positive impacts of an effective heat mitigation program and believe all employers should be held to the same standard as we have proactively set,” company spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why a state rule has taken so long — even with lives at stake — is to take a journey through the byzantine world of administrative rulemaking in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters review found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The 2016 law gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> the option to adopt an indoor heat rule targeted at certain industries, but the agency wrote a broad one, prompting immediate pushback from a wide swath of employers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Cal/OSHA advisory committee took employer and worker input and drafted a rule by the 2019 deadline, but it had to be submitted to a little-known state workplace safety board for approval;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, that safety board, part of the understaffed Department of Industrial Relations, was focused on emergency COVID-19 prevention rules;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before any vote could happen, the rule triggered a requirement in state law for an economic impact study;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state hired two different contractors to complete the economic assessment and didn’t submit the final study until September 2021;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After another year-plus of “detailed consultation” with other agencies, the safety board started its own rulemaking process in March 2023. Still, there have been four public comment periods since — more than most other recent regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/oshsb.html\">Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> is expected to give final approval to the rule at its March 21 meeting, making California the third state with indoor heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approval would come at the last possible minute:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>If there are further amendments and the vote doesn’t happen in March, the workplace safety board’s formal rulemaking process — which can take as long as a year — would have to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this,” said Shane Gusman, a lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during the discussions. “It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in the indoor heat rule\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rule would require employers statewide to provide cooling areas and monitor workers who take cooling breaks for signs of heat illness when indoor workplaces hit 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the temperature hits 87, or if workers wear restrictive clothing or work near a heat source, businesses would have to take further steps: First, to cool the worksite, if feasible. If not, employers must adjust work schedules, slow production, allow more breaks or rotate workers through assignments. They’d have to provide personal fans or cooling vests as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industries expected to be most affected include warehouses, manufacturing and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sara Fee, former Amazon air hub employee\"]‘The humidity inside the building was unbearable. You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.’[/pullquote]Neither advocates for workers nor employers are satisfied with the proposed rule. Workers want to require lower temperatures. Employers said the rule is too complicated, conflicts with the outdoor heat rule and is too broad to apply to vastly different indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this regulation for California employers has been trying to find language that works equally well for an office building, a restaurant kitchen and a storage shed,” said Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ advocates said their top priority now is to get a rule on the books without further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the indoor rule, workers complaining of heat at the Amazon warehouse last summer asked Cal/OSHA to inspect inside under a general rule requiring safe workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The humidity inside the building was unbearable,” said former air hub employee Sara Fee, who helped file the complaint along with the San Bernardino-based Warehouse Worker Resource Center, where she now works. “You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauling packages in and out of truck trailers was the hottest task. The metal containers sitting in the sun easily climbed above 100 degrees, Fee said, and even with air conditioners in the warehouse and fans near the trucks, the trailers “feel like a sauna” with workers in “constant motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a plaid shirt on a black tshirt and a black truckers hat with a map behind her and looking at the camera with a slight smile. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Empire Amazon Workers United founder Sara Fee in front of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario on Feb 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The heat that comes from the trailer almost knocks you over,” Fee said. “We had fans you could turn around and face into the trailers, but you might as well be standing there with a straw in your mouth blowing air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency found no evidence of safety violations indoors, according to the citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon is appealing the outdoor citations and disputed claims about hot working conditions both inside and outside the 660,000-square-foot KSBD facility at San Bernardino International Airport, where about 1,400 workers carry cargo off arriving planes, sort them with the help of large robots and load them onto truck trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lynch Vogel, spokesperson, Amazon\"]‘There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors.’[/pullquote]Amazon spokesperson Lynch Vogel said the facility is fully air-conditioned — unlike many others in the distribution industry — and never hotter than 78 degrees inside. “There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Shadix, legal director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, said he suspects the lack of an indoor heat rule made it more difficult to issue violations inside the warehouse. The prior summer, workers wearing thermometers inside the warehouse and truck trailers reported temperatures of between 75 and 96 degrees and between 80 and 121 on the tarmac — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/amazon-heat-wave-california-work\">a report that\u003c/a> Amazon also disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a clear standard would give more clear indication to employers to take more proactive steps, and if there’s still a need for citations, having explicit standards that are required to be followed will make that process a clearer path for Cal/OSHA,” Shadix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long, hot history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though recent heat waves have made the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/workplace-injuries-rising-temperatures/\">risks of hot workplaces\u003c/a> top-of-mind for policymakers, workers have been pushing for protections for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in factories and even libraries in Southern California were petitioning the state for a general heat standard — indoors and outdoors — as early as the 1980s, said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library branches didn’t have air conditioning yet, and (librarians) got sick in the stacks,” he said. “Then in the subsequent decade or two, a lot of those spaces became air-conditioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the heat-related deaths of four farmworkers prompted California to adopt an outdoor heat illness prevention rule, which requires shade and water when the temperature hits 80 degrees and, for farming and construction work, additional breaks and monitoring when it hits 95. It was the first such rule in the nation; a 2021 study \u003ca href=\"https://docs.iza.org/dp14560.pdf\">suggested it has helped (PDF)\u003c/a> to decrease workplace injuries on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other workers, such as those in the newly booming warehouses of the High Desert and Inland Empire, took up the cause of an indoor heat rule. In 2011, a union representing workers at a Lancaster warehouse secured heat protections in its contract with Rite Aid, but union president Luisa Gratz said as the climate gets hotter, workers need stronger protections in state law, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976719\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers load packages into electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/REUTERS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Teamsters secured a contract with UPS that averted a nationwide strike and that, besides higher pay, included air conditioning in delivery trucks for drivers and additional fans, ice machines and water fountains in buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">20 workers died\u003c/a> from heat illness between 2010 and 2017, seven of them because of indoor heat, according to the Rand Corp., which analyzed the state’s proposed indoor heat rules. Workers compensation data analyzed by Cal/OSHA show between 2010 and 2018 — the hottest decade on record — an average of 185 workers a year claimed injuries from indoor heat, a figure that was rising, and nearly 20% of all workplace heat injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency only recently began separately counting safety complaints that mention indoor heat; it received 194 such complaints in 2022 and 549 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those most likely to experience injuries are younger and male, a likely indication of who is working in industries with the most heat exposure, said Amy Heinzerling, chief of the Emerging Workplace Hazards Unit at the California Department of Public Health. Nearly 10% were injured within the first two weeks on the job, Heinzerling found in another study, highlighting the importance of “gradually increasing worker exposure to hot conditions and really keeping a close eye on them for signs of heat illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/connie-leyva-1967/\">Connie Leyva\u003c/a>, a labor-friendly Democrat from the Inland Empire, introduced the bill for Cal/OSHA to develop an indoor heat rule. It was a direct response to reports of workers falling ill from heat in warehouses concentrated in her district, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially wanted the rule to take effect in 2017 and said in a recent interview she “had no idea that it would take this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did expect it to happen right away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delays in rulemaking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat advisory committee began meeting to draft the rule in February 2017, a wide range of employers pushed back immediately, some questioning the need for an indoor rule at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee met over the next two years, going back and forth on the temperature and whether to consider other factors, such as workers’ activity level and humidity levels in the workplace. Worker advocates wanted an across-the-board 80-degree threshold, while some employers called for stricter protections to kick in only at 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2019, the agency had a draft proposal ready for the workplace safety board to kick off formal rulemaking — a process that can be as short as a few months and as long as one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the delays really began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the rule would have at least $50 million in economic impact, a 2011 state law required a study to be submitted to the Department of Finance. The requirement has irked labor advocates, who argue workplace regulations are already subject to vetting. The Cal/OSHA advisory committee on indoor heat met three times and revised a draft rule seven times before submitting it to the safety board, which also takes comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11956922,news_11969338,news_11886628\"]Leyva, backed by the California Labor Federation, tried in 2017 and 2021 to exempt Cal/OSHA from conducting economic impact studies, saying they slow down regulations that are needed for workers’ safety. Both times, the bill cleared the Senate and then died. Leyva blamed business interests that were hostile to new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the people who were always talking about streamlining things and saying, ‘There’s too much regulation, there’s too many hoops to jump through,’” she said, “We propose a bill that’s going to streamline it, and all of a sudden, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, the Department of Industrial Relations, which houses Cal/OSHA and the occupational safety board, submitted a draft study to the Department of Finance. While that study was underway, the department put out a second contract. It submitted a final study a year and a half later, using the new contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither department explained why two contractors were needed. The final economic impact study conducted by the Rand Corp. estimated that the proposed rule would cost employers statewide $215 million in the first year and about $88 million annually afterward, mostly for employers to install AC or fans or provide cool-down areas. The analysis also predicted the rule would cut indoor workplace heat injuries by 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another year passed. Asked for an explanation for the delay, the Department of Industrial Relations said only that it was talking to other agencies, including the governor’s office, between late 2021 and early 2023. The department responded in a statement Wednesday after weeks of inquiries. It declined to make a representative of the safety board available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a complex rulemaking that required detailed consultation with subject matter experts at various points, which led to further edits and refinements to the documents,” a department spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, then-Assembly Labor chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/ash-kalra-1972/\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a San José Democrat, asked an embattled and understaffed Cal/OSHA about why the rule was taking so long. Director Jeff Killip, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.cal-osha.com/flash-report/dosh-chief-resigns/\">left his post in January\u003c/a>, replied that the pandemic had “diverted our focus,” and the standards board would soon be ready to begin formal rulemaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board, which the governor appoints, kicked off that process in March 2023. Its vote of approval, along with the Department of Finance’s approval of the economic impact document, is among the last steps that are still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Shadix, legal director, Warehouse Worker Resource Center\"]‘The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness. We would like to see it in place for the summer.’[/pullquote]During a public hearing last May, workers pleaded with the board to adopt the rule without further delay. But for the past year, the rule has undergone three more revisions requiring a new public comment period each time, the last of which ended in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, employers have pushed to exempt businesses where workers are only briefly inside a truck, trailer or storage shed. Business groups such as the California Farm Bureau remain upset that the latest exemption doesn’t apply if it’s hotter than 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature in those spaces is going to exceed 95 degrees for much of the year,” said the bureau’s director of labor affairs, Bryan Little. “It’s just not going to be very useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of revisions is unusual compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/apprvd.html\">dozens of other\u003c/a> workplace safety rules approved since 2017. Of those, which ranged from regulations narrowly targeted at a single industry to a wider COVID-19 prevention standard, only one other rule — on protective equipment for firefighters — has undergone as many board revisions as indoor heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ groups are concerned about how the rule will be enforced, with Cal/OSHA currently without a director and suffering vacancy rates of one-third, and the rule only allowing workers’ representatives into unionized worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shadix of the warehouse workers’ center said he just wants to see a rule adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness,” he said. “We would like to see it in place for the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In March, the state is finally set to approve rules to protect workers from excessive heat indoors. Officials busted a 2019 deadline — a delay that demonstrates California's byzantine rulemaking process.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1708647695,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":60,"wordCount":3007},"headData":{"title":"Why It's Taken 5 Years for California Workers to Get Indoor Heat Protection | KQED","description":"In March, the state is finally set to approve rules to protect workers from excessive heat indoors. Officials busted a 2019 deadline — a delay that demonstrates California's byzantine rulemaking process.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Why It's Taken 5 Years for California Workers to Get Indoor Heat Protection","datePublished":"2024-02-22T20:00:24.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-23T00:21:35.000Z","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"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/jeanne-kuang/\">Jeanne Kuang\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11976710/waiting-and-sweltering-why-are-californias-indoor-heat-protections-for-workers-5-years-late","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After sorting and loading packages through a 100-plus-degree heat wave at an Inland Empire Amazon air freight hub last July, workers and their advocates called California’s workplace safety agency to complain of unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors came out, and in a citation issued in January and announced this week, agreed with the workers: The online retail giant hadn’t done enough to address the heat for those working outside on the tarmac and had committed “serious” safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But workers didn’t get all the accountability they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA dismissed nearly half their complaints — the ones alleging hot working conditions inside the warehouses. One possible reason: While California requires employers to reduce the risks of heat illness for outdoor workers, a comparable rule still isn’t on the books for indoor workers. And though state lawmakers ordered one in 2016 and set a 2019 deadline, it won’t be until next month when the state is finally expected to adopt a rule to go into effect by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this. It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Shane Gusman, lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during discussions","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Excessive heat can cause nausea, vomiting, fainting, and, in the most extreme cases, heat stroke, leading to organ damage or death. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from indoor heat from 2010 through 2017. In recent years, summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/these-southern-california-temperatures-are-now-the-highest-ever-recorded/\">across southern California\u003c/a> have broken historical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon disputed the citation and said it is appealing. It said that its San Bernardino air hub is air-conditioned, workers are encouraged to take breaks, and the company generally supports an indoor heat standard. It declined to comment on the state’s proposed rule. “We’ve seen the positive impacts of an effective heat mitigation program and believe all employers should be held to the same standard as we have proactively set,” company spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why a state rule has taken so long — even with lives at stake — is to take a journey through the byzantine world of administrative rulemaking in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters review found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The 2016 law gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> the option to adopt an indoor heat rule targeted at certain industries, but the agency wrote a broad one, prompting immediate pushback from a wide swath of employers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Cal/OSHA advisory committee took employer and worker input and drafted a rule by the 2019 deadline, but it had to be submitted to a little-known state workplace safety board for approval;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, that safety board, part of the understaffed Department of Industrial Relations, was focused on emergency COVID-19 prevention rules;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before any vote could happen, the rule triggered a requirement in state law for an economic impact study;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state hired two different contractors to complete the economic assessment and didn’t submit the final study until September 2021;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After another year-plus of “detailed consultation” with other agencies, the safety board started its own rulemaking process in March 2023. Still, there have been four public comment periods since — more than most other recent regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/oshsb.html\">Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> is expected to give final approval to the rule at its March 21 meeting, making California the third state with indoor heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approval would come at the last possible minute:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>If there are further amendments and the vote doesn’t happen in March, the workplace safety board’s formal rulemaking process — which can take as long as a year — would have to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this,” said Shane Gusman, a lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during the discussions. “It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in the indoor heat rule\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rule would require employers statewide to provide cooling areas and monitor workers who take cooling breaks for signs of heat illness when indoor workplaces hit 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the temperature hits 87, or if workers wear restrictive clothing or work near a heat source, businesses would have to take further steps: First, to cool the worksite, if feasible. If not, employers must adjust work schedules, slow production, allow more breaks or rotate workers through assignments. They’d have to provide personal fans or cooling vests as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industries expected to be most affected include warehouses, manufacturing and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The humidity inside the building was unbearable. You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Sara Fee, former Amazon air hub employee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Neither advocates for workers nor employers are satisfied with the proposed rule. Workers want to require lower temperatures. Employers said the rule is too complicated, conflicts with the outdoor heat rule and is too broad to apply to vastly different indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this regulation for California employers has been trying to find language that works equally well for an office building, a restaurant kitchen and a storage shed,” said Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ advocates said their top priority now is to get a rule on the books without further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the indoor rule, workers complaining of heat at the Amazon warehouse last summer asked Cal/OSHA to inspect inside under a general rule requiring safe workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The humidity inside the building was unbearable,” said former air hub employee Sara Fee, who helped file the complaint along with the San Bernardino-based Warehouse Worker Resource Center, where she now works. “You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauling packages in and out of truck trailers was the hottest task. The metal containers sitting in the sun easily climbed above 100 degrees, Fee said, and even with air conditioners in the warehouse and fans near the trucks, the trailers “feel like a sauna” with workers in “constant motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a plaid shirt on a black tshirt and a black truckers hat with a map behind her and looking at the camera with a slight smile. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Empire Amazon Workers United founder Sara Fee in front of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario on Feb 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The heat that comes from the trailer almost knocks you over,” Fee said. “We had fans you could turn around and face into the trailers, but you might as well be standing there with a straw in your mouth blowing air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency found no evidence of safety violations indoors, according to the citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon is appealing the outdoor citations and disputed claims about hot working conditions both inside and outside the 660,000-square-foot KSBD facility at San Bernardino International Airport, where about 1,400 workers carry cargo off arriving planes, sort them with the help of large robots and load them onto truck trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Lynch Vogel, spokesperson, Amazon","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Lynch Vogel said the facility is fully air-conditioned — unlike many others in the distribution industry — and never hotter than 78 degrees inside. “There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Shadix, legal director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, said he suspects the lack of an indoor heat rule made it more difficult to issue violations inside the warehouse. The prior summer, workers wearing thermometers inside the warehouse and truck trailers reported temperatures of between 75 and 96 degrees and between 80 and 121 on the tarmac — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/amazon-heat-wave-california-work\">a report that\u003c/a> Amazon also disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a clear standard would give more clear indication to employers to take more proactive steps, and if there’s still a need for citations, having explicit standards that are required to be followed will make that process a clearer path for Cal/OSHA,” Shadix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long, hot history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though recent heat waves have made the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/workplace-injuries-rising-temperatures/\">risks of hot workplaces\u003c/a> top-of-mind for policymakers, workers have been pushing for protections for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in factories and even libraries in Southern California were petitioning the state for a general heat standard — indoors and outdoors — as early as the 1980s, said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library branches didn’t have air conditioning yet, and (librarians) got sick in the stacks,” he said. “Then in the subsequent decade or two, a lot of those spaces became air-conditioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the heat-related deaths of four farmworkers prompted California to adopt an outdoor heat illness prevention rule, which requires shade and water when the temperature hits 80 degrees and, for farming and construction work, additional breaks and monitoring when it hits 95. It was the first such rule in the nation; a 2021 study \u003ca href=\"https://docs.iza.org/dp14560.pdf\">suggested it has helped (PDF)\u003c/a> to decrease workplace injuries on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other workers, such as those in the newly booming warehouses of the High Desert and Inland Empire, took up the cause of an indoor heat rule. In 2011, a union representing workers at a Lancaster warehouse secured heat protections in its contract with Rite Aid, but union president Luisa Gratz said as the climate gets hotter, workers need stronger protections in state law, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976719\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers load packages into electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/REUTERS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Teamsters secured a contract with UPS that averted a nationwide strike and that, besides higher pay, included air conditioning in delivery trucks for drivers and additional fans, ice machines and water fountains in buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">20 workers died\u003c/a> from heat illness between 2010 and 2017, seven of them because of indoor heat, according to the Rand Corp., which analyzed the state’s proposed indoor heat rules. Workers compensation data analyzed by Cal/OSHA show between 2010 and 2018 — the hottest decade on record — an average of 185 workers a year claimed injuries from indoor heat, a figure that was rising, and nearly 20% of all workplace heat injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency only recently began separately counting safety complaints that mention indoor heat; it received 194 such complaints in 2022 and 549 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those most likely to experience injuries are younger and male, a likely indication of who is working in industries with the most heat exposure, said Amy Heinzerling, chief of the Emerging Workplace Hazards Unit at the California Department of Public Health. Nearly 10% were injured within the first two weeks on the job, Heinzerling found in another study, highlighting the importance of “gradually increasing worker exposure to hot conditions and really keeping a close eye on them for signs of heat illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/connie-leyva-1967/\">Connie Leyva\u003c/a>, a labor-friendly Democrat from the Inland Empire, introduced the bill for Cal/OSHA to develop an indoor heat rule. It was a direct response to reports of workers falling ill from heat in warehouses concentrated in her district, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially wanted the rule to take effect in 2017 and said in a recent interview she “had no idea that it would take this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did expect it to happen right away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delays in rulemaking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat advisory committee began meeting to draft the rule in February 2017, a wide range of employers pushed back immediately, some questioning the need for an indoor rule at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee met over the next two years, going back and forth on the temperature and whether to consider other factors, such as workers’ activity level and humidity levels in the workplace. Worker advocates wanted an across-the-board 80-degree threshold, while some employers called for stricter protections to kick in only at 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2019, the agency had a draft proposal ready for the workplace safety board to kick off formal rulemaking — a process that can be as short as a few months and as long as one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the delays really began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the rule would have at least $50 million in economic impact, a 2011 state law required a study to be submitted to the Department of Finance. The requirement has irked labor advocates, who argue workplace regulations are already subject to vetting. The Cal/OSHA advisory committee on indoor heat met three times and revised a draft rule seven times before submitting it to the safety board, which also takes comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11956922,news_11969338,news_11886628"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Leyva, backed by the California Labor Federation, tried in 2017 and 2021 to exempt Cal/OSHA from conducting economic impact studies, saying they slow down regulations that are needed for workers’ safety. Both times, the bill cleared the Senate and then died. Leyva blamed business interests that were hostile to new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the people who were always talking about streamlining things and saying, ‘There’s too much regulation, there’s too many hoops to jump through,’” she said, “We propose a bill that’s going to streamline it, and all of a sudden, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, the Department of Industrial Relations, which houses Cal/OSHA and the occupational safety board, submitted a draft study to the Department of Finance. While that study was underway, the department put out a second contract. It submitted a final study a year and a half later, using the new contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither department explained why two contractors were needed. The final economic impact study conducted by the Rand Corp. estimated that the proposed rule would cost employers statewide $215 million in the first year and about $88 million annually afterward, mostly for employers to install AC or fans or provide cool-down areas. The analysis also predicted the rule would cut indoor workplace heat injuries by 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another year passed. Asked for an explanation for the delay, the Department of Industrial Relations said only that it was talking to other agencies, including the governor’s office, between late 2021 and early 2023. The department responded in a statement Wednesday after weeks of inquiries. It declined to make a representative of the safety board available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a complex rulemaking that required detailed consultation with subject matter experts at various points, which led to further edits and refinements to the documents,” a department spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, then-Assembly Labor chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/ash-kalra-1972/\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a San José Democrat, asked an embattled and understaffed Cal/OSHA about why the rule was taking so long. Director Jeff Killip, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.cal-osha.com/flash-report/dosh-chief-resigns/\">left his post in January\u003c/a>, replied that the pandemic had “diverted our focus,” and the standards board would soon be ready to begin formal rulemaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board, which the governor appoints, kicked off that process in March 2023. Its vote of approval, along with the Department of Finance’s approval of the economic impact document, is among the last steps that are still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness. We would like to see it in place for the summer.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Tim Shadix, legal director, Warehouse Worker Resource Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During a public hearing last May, workers pleaded with the board to adopt the rule without further delay. But for the past year, the rule has undergone three more revisions requiring a new public comment period each time, the last of which ended in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, employers have pushed to exempt businesses where workers are only briefly inside a truck, trailer or storage shed. Business groups such as the California Farm Bureau remain upset that the latest exemption doesn’t apply if it’s hotter than 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature in those spaces is going to exceed 95 degrees for much of the year,” said the bureau’s director of labor affairs, Bryan Little. “It’s just not going to be very useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of revisions is unusual compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/apprvd.html\">dozens of other\u003c/a> workplace safety rules approved since 2017. Of those, which ranged from regulations narrowly targeted at a single industry to a wider COVID-19 prevention standard, only one other rule — on protective equipment for firefighters — has undergone as many board revisions as indoor heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ groups are concerned about how the rule will be enforced, with Cal/OSHA currently without a director and suffering vacancy rates of one-third, and the rule only allowing workers’ representatives into unionized worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shadix of the warehouse workers’ center said he just wants to see a rule adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness,” he said. “We would like to see it in place for the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976710/waiting-and-sweltering-why-are-californias-indoor-heat-protections-for-workers-5-years-late","authors":["byline_news_11976710"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_6145","news_255","news_27626","news_2929","news_19904","news_4569"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_11976711","label":"news_18481"},"news_11975340":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11975340","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11975340","score":null,"sort":[1707663607000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-fast-food-workers-gain-new-first-of-its-kind-union-to-represent-them","title":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers","publishDate":1707663607,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":18481,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California’s fast-food workers have a new union to advocate for higher pay and safer working conditions, organizers announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of workers statewide will be able to join the California Fast Food Workers Union, an organization that will likely represent a small share of workers but advocate for all fast-food employees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization doesn’t have the same \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-fast-food-bill-tests-labor-laws/\">collective bargaining \u003c/a>power of traditional unions, but it will be affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, a traditional union that represents workers in various industries and for more than a decade has fought to raise pay at fast-food restaurants. Recently it helped secure a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/09/minimum-wage-california/\">$20-an-hour \u003c/a>minimum wage for all fast-food workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president, Service Employees International Union\"]‘Today is a historic day … The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.’[/pullquote]“Today is a historic day in the launching of the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. fast-food workers union,” said Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union. “The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who join will pay $20 monthly in membership dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union won’t be able to negotiate contracts with individual employers, but it will be able to advocate for better working conditions across the industry through a recently created statewide fast-food council in a process similar to typical union bargaining, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Service Employees International Union won a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">major victory\u003c/a> with the passage of a law that created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/california-fast-food-council-2/\">fast-food labor council \u003c/a>that will set working conditions and standards in California and increase the minimum wage for fast workers to $20 starting in April. The fast-food council will elect representatives and begin meeting by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint 11 representatives to the council, including fast-food workers and restaurant industry representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fast-food-workers-sign-up-in-la\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast-food workers sign up in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers from across the state gathered at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee’s Phoenix Hall on Friday in Los Angeles to learn about their new union, begin the sign-up process and discuss potential priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers were enthusiastic about how the union could support them in solving a range of issues they deal with, because they’ve already seen change with their involvement in the national Fight for $15 movement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The Fight for $15 launched in 2012 when 200 fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City to demand $15 an hour and union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways the new union is a formalization of the work the Fight for $15 movement has been doing for years, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Fight for $15, workers advocated for the 2016 law that set California on a path to a $15 minimum wage and they pushed to create the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically Fight for $15 has used tactics like doing one-day strikes and other actions on employers, as well as pushing for public policy that benefits fast-food workers,” Jacobs said. “I expect the fast-food workers union to do very similar sorts of actions. The change here is to codify this into a membership organization where workers are paying dues. It’s their organization, and they are formally part of the Service Employees International Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of union, often called a minority union, is not unusual, he said. Another example of a minority union is the Communication Workers of America’s \u003ca href=\"https://cwad9.org/workplaces/t-mobile\">union for T-Mobile workers\u003c/a>, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fast-food workers will have a unique opportunity to implement desired changes through the fast-food council, a mechanism that other minority unions don’t have, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing mostly purple shirts celebrates and applauds. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers applaud a panel lead by Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of SEIU, at the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, a McDonald’s worker, said the new union is the culmination of years of effort. She said her involvement in organizing with the Fight for $15 campaign had already improved conditions at work, and that with the new union, employers will be less likely to retaliate or push back against employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years,” she said. “That’s what we’re celebrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chain restaurants are notoriously difficult to unionize because of high employee turnover and because the restaurant corporations are often not direct employers of the workers. Even when restaurants are able to unionize, such as Starbucks stores, corporations often employ delay tactics that make bargaining difficult, like shutting down stores, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, McDonald’s worker\"]‘Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years. That’s what we’re celebrating.’[/pullquote]“Is the endgame to build enough power in the industry to try to win collective bargaining, or to build and strengthen the fast-food worker council and ultimately have some form of sectoral bargaining through the state?” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said gaining and keeping strong union membership will also be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the union’s goal is simple: to make restaurants safe and sustainable places to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an economic justice fight, a racial justice fight,” he said. “We feel today marks a new chapter in being able to lift the standards for so many families throughout California who are primarily Black, Brown and female.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-restaurants-warn-of-higher-costs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restaurants warn of higher costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/09/the-seius-fake-fast-food-union/\">publicity stunt\u003c/a> and that the union will struggle to gain members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, called the California Fast Food Workers Union a “face-saving exercise” by the Service Employees International Union. The institute, based in Washington DC, has argued for lower minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975229,news_11974073,news_11962737\"]The Service Employees International Union “needs something to show for the significant investments it has made in California and nationally, even if this new creation is primarily a lobbying and public relations vehicle,” Saltsman said. “However, it’s unclear who or what this new group speaks for, outside of Service Employees International Union leadership or the small number of aligned employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saltsman added, the union ensures the likelihood that at least four seats on the fast-food council — two seats for workers and two for worker representatives — are controlled by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage increases for workers will likely lead to higher prices for consumers, said Jeff Hanscom, vice president of state and local government relations for the International Franchise Association, which represents restaurant chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local restaurant owners are pillars of their communities and proud of their commitment to employees, including the new $20/hour wage increase starting April 1,” he said in a statement. “However, that increase will add about $250,000 to the operating cost of each restaurant. Food prices will have to go up, customers will feel it, and restaurant owners will look for other ways to manage the additional cost while also keeping their small businesses afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-workers-want\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What workers want\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite a strong turnout at Friday’s event, workers said there’s still a lot more work to do to bring other employees on board because many of their colleagues express fears of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are scared,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste Perez, a Burger King worker in San José, said she signed up to be a union member days ago without thinking twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth it,” she said. “We don’t have anything: health insurance, paid vacation. We don’t see our loved ones enough. We just work all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers outlined a few priorities for the union: In addition to annual wage increases and seeking better work schedules, the union plans to introduce local ordinances in San José and Los Angeles to strengthen job protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg\" alt='A banner that says \"Fast Food Justice Ahora [Now]\" ' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner outside the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Gonzalez, a Subway employee, said she feels confident the new union will offer strong support and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have violence at work, I know they’re going to support us in the protections we fight for. We have a lot of things we want to accomplish,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said a priority for her will be consistent wage increases. While she’s grateful for the $20 wage increase, she knows it won’t keep up with the rising cost of living in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a formal union, workers said they’re hopeful their hesitant colleagues will sign up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started, we were very few,” Gonzalez said. “Maybe people will lose some fear because they see that nothing happens to us when we organize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The California Fast Food Workers Union promises to advocate for better conditions and higher pay for all fast-food workers. But some say the union will cause prices to rise.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1707601422,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1654},"headData":{"title":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers | KQED","description":"The California Fast Food Workers Union promises to advocate for better conditions and higher pay for all fast-food workers. But some say the union will cause prices to rise.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"California Gains New, First-of-Its-Kind Union to Advocate for Fast-Food Workers","datePublished":"2024-02-11T15:00:07.000Z","dateModified":"2024-02-10T21:43:42.000Z","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"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/alejandra-reyesvelarde/\">Alejandra Reyes-Velarde\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11975340/california-fast-food-workers-gain-new-first-of-its-kind-union-to-represent-them","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California’s fast-food workers have a new union to advocate for higher pay and safer working conditions, organizers announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of workers statewide will be able to join the California Fast Food Workers Union, an organization that will likely represent a small share of workers but advocate for all fast-food employees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization doesn’t have the same \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-fast-food-bill-tests-labor-laws/\">collective bargaining \u003c/a>power of traditional unions, but it will be affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, a traditional union that represents workers in various industries and for more than a decade has fought to raise pay at fast-food restaurants. Recently it helped secure a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/09/minimum-wage-california/\">$20-an-hour \u003c/a>minimum wage for all fast-food workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Today is a historic day … The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president, Service Employees International Union","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Today is a historic day in the launching of the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. fast-food workers union,” said Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union. “The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who join will pay $20 monthly in membership dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union won’t be able to negotiate contracts with individual employers, but it will be able to advocate for better working conditions across the industry through a recently created statewide fast-food council in a process similar to typical union bargaining, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Service Employees International Union won a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">major victory\u003c/a> with the passage of a law that created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/california-fast-food-council-2/\">fast-food labor council \u003c/a>that will set working conditions and standards in California and increase the minimum wage for fast workers to $20 starting in April. The fast-food council will elect representatives and begin meeting by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint 11 representatives to the council, including fast-food workers and restaurant industry representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fast-food-workers-sign-up-in-la\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast-food workers sign up in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers from across the state gathered at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee’s Phoenix Hall on Friday in Los Angeles to learn about their new union, begin the sign-up process and discuss potential priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers were enthusiastic about how the union could support them in solving a range of issues they deal with, because they’ve already seen change with their involvement in the national Fight for $15 movement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The Fight for $15 launched in 2012 when 200 fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City to demand $15 an hour and union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways the new union is a formalization of the work the Fight for $15 movement has been doing for years, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Fight for $15, workers advocated for the 2016 law that set California on a path to a $15 minimum wage and they pushed to create the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically Fight for $15 has used tactics like doing one-day strikes and other actions on employers, as well as pushing for public policy that benefits fast-food workers,” Jacobs said. “I expect the fast-food workers union to do very similar sorts of actions. The change here is to codify this into a membership organization where workers are paying dues. It’s their organization, and they are formally part of the Service Employees International Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of union, often called a minority union, is not unusual, he said. Another example of a minority union is the Communication Workers of America’s \u003ca href=\"https://cwad9.org/workplaces/t-mobile\">union for T-Mobile workers\u003c/a>, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fast-food workers will have a unique opportunity to implement desired changes through the fast-food council, a mechanism that other minority unions don’t have, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing mostly purple shirts celebrates and applauds. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers applaud a panel lead by Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of SEIU, at the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, a McDonald’s worker, said the new union is the culmination of years of effort. She said her involvement in organizing with the Fight for $15 campaign had already improved conditions at work, and that with the new union, employers will be less likely to retaliate or push back against employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years,” she said. “That’s what we’re celebrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chain restaurants are notoriously difficult to unionize because of high employee turnover and because the restaurant corporations are often not direct employers of the workers. Even when restaurants are able to unionize, such as Starbucks stores, corporations often employ delay tactics that make bargaining difficult, like shutting down stores, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years. That’s what we’re celebrating.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, McDonald’s worker","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Is the endgame to build enough power in the industry to try to win collective bargaining, or to build and strengthen the fast-food worker council and ultimately have some form of sectoral bargaining through the state?” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said gaining and keeping strong union membership will also be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the union’s goal is simple: to make restaurants safe and sustainable places to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an economic justice fight, a racial justice fight,” he said. “We feel today marks a new chapter in being able to lift the standards for so many families throughout California who are primarily Black, Brown and female.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-restaurants-warn-of-higher-costs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restaurants warn of higher costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/09/the-seius-fake-fast-food-union/\">publicity stunt\u003c/a> and that the union will struggle to gain members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, called the California Fast Food Workers Union a “face-saving exercise” by the Service Employees International Union. The institute, based in Washington DC, has argued for lower minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11975229,news_11974073,news_11962737"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Service Employees International Union “needs something to show for the significant investments it has made in California and nationally, even if this new creation is primarily a lobbying and public relations vehicle,” Saltsman said. “However, it’s unclear who or what this new group speaks for, outside of Service Employees International Union leadership or the small number of aligned employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saltsman added, the union ensures the likelihood that at least four seats on the fast-food council — two seats for workers and two for worker representatives — are controlled by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage increases for workers will likely lead to higher prices for consumers, said Jeff Hanscom, vice president of state and local government relations for the International Franchise Association, which represents restaurant chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local restaurant owners are pillars of their communities and proud of their commitment to employees, including the new $20/hour wage increase starting April 1,” he said in a statement. “However, that increase will add about $250,000 to the operating cost of each restaurant. Food prices will have to go up, customers will feel it, and restaurant owners will look for other ways to manage the additional cost while also keeping their small businesses afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-workers-want\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What workers want\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite a strong turnout at Friday’s event, workers said there’s still a lot more work to do to bring other employees on board because many of their colleagues express fears of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are scared,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste Perez, a Burger King worker in San José, said she signed up to be a union member days ago without thinking twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth it,” she said. “We don’t have anything: health insurance, paid vacation. We don’t see our loved ones enough. We just work all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers outlined a few priorities for the union: In addition to annual wage increases and seeking better work schedules, the union plans to introduce local ordinances in San José and Los Angeles to strengthen job protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg\" alt='A banner that says \"Fast Food Justice Ahora [Now]\" ' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner outside the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Gonzalez, a Subway employee, said she feels confident the new union will offer strong support and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have violence at work, I know they’re going to support us in the protections we fight for. We have a lot of things we want to accomplish,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said a priority for her will be consistent wage increases. 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Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half million fast-food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs.[aside postID=news_11924154,news_11924068]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-minimum-wage-government-and-politics-822a69d5ad48eb2864d6a1e3b5b7a208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he was proud to sign the measure into law on Labor Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity,” he said in a statement. “Today’s action gives hardworking fast food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law caps minimum wage increases for fast-food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost-of-living increases thereafter.[aside tag=\"labor, wage\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]The state Legislature approved the measure on August 29. Debate split along party lines, with Republicans opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Brian Dahle, the Republican nominee for governor in November, had called it “a stepping stone to unionize all these workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters had said they hoped the measure would inspire similar efforts elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners and franchisers cited an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecasting and Development saying that the legislation would increase consumers’ costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers' delegates and employers' representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1662492129,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":10,"wordCount":291},"headData":{"title":"Landmark Law for Fast-Food Workers Passes on Labor Day | KQED","description":"The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers' delegates and employers' representatives, along with two state officials, empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Landmark Law for Fast-Food Workers Passes on Labor Day","datePublished":"2022-09-05T19:17:00.000Z","dateModified":"2022-09-06T19:22:09.000Z","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":"11924687 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11924687","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/09/05/landmark-law-for-fast-food-workers-passes-on-labor-day/","disqusTitle":"Landmark Law for Fast-Food Workers Passes on Labor Day","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11924687/landmark-law-for-fast-food-workers-passes-on-labor-day","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a nation-leading measure giving more than a half million fast-food workers more power and protections, despite the objections of restaurant owners who warned it would drive up consumers’ costs.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11924154,news_11924068","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The landmark law creates a 10-member Fast Food Council with equal numbers of workers’ delegates and employers’ representatives, along with two state officials, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-minimum-wage-government-and-politics-822a69d5ad48eb2864d6a1e3b5b7a208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">empowered to set minimum standards for wages, hours and working conditions\u003c/a> in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he was proud to sign the measure into law on Labor Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity,” he said in a statement. “Today’s action gives hardworking fast food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law caps minimum wage increases for fast-food workers at chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, compared to the statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour, with cost-of-living increases thereafter.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"labor, wage","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state Legislature approved the measure on August 29. Debate split along party lines, with Republicans opposed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. Brian Dahle, the Republican nominee for governor in November, had called it “a stepping stone to unionize all these workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters had said they hoped the measure would inspire similar efforts elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurant owners and franchisers cited an analysis they commissioned by the UC Riverside Center for Economic Forecasting and Development saying that the legislation would increase consumers’ costs.\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>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11924687/landmark-law-for-fast-food-workers-passes-on-labor-day","authors":["237"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_31572","news_31573","news_29382","news_19904","news_28494","news_22572","news_4569"],"featImg":"news_11924688","label":"news"},"news_11883367":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11883367","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11883367","score":null,"sort":[1627852451000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-some-doordash-drivers-are-on-strike","title":"Why Some DoorDash Drivers Are on Strike","publishDate":1627852451,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Across the country, many DoorDash drivers have stopped dashing to your door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've logged off the app for the day as part of a strike organized on social media against the food delivery service, demanding tip transparency and higher pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's why.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It all started, presumably, on Reddit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the strike is nationwide and not affiliated with any particular organization, it appears to have originated on Reddit, where a post from July 15 circulated, titled, \"DOORDASH BOYCOTT ON JULY 31ST ALL DAY !!\" [aside postID=news_11849055]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post urged dashers — the company name for drivers — to stop using the app for the day and to instead use Uber Eats. At the bottom the post lists demands, including a minimum \"base pay,\" the amount a driver earns on each order before a tip, of $4.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area had its own moment of seeing DoorDash's practices take the spotlight in February when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892479/san-francisco-jeffrey-fang-children-carjacking-kidnapping\">one DoorDash driver's car was stolen while he was delivering food with his two children inside the vehicle in San Francisco\u003c/a>. The children suffered no physical harm and were reunited with family several hours later, but the incident sparked \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2021/2/8/22272913/doordash-kidnapping-minimum-wage-prop-22\">a public conversation around DoorDash drivers' ability to pay for child care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/GigWorkersRise/status/1358832157200838657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the strike, DoorDash defended its practices and said dasher base pay is calculated based on the estimated time, distance and desirability of an order. Right now, dashers can expect to earn a base pay between $2 to $10+, according to DoorDash's website. Drivers say the lower end of that range had previously been $3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As if a $3 base pay from DoorDash was not insulting enough, they've lowered it to $2, $2.25, $2.50, $2.75,\" one DoorDasher, Denise Small, said in a TikTok video that has amassed over 530,000 views. \"I've declined so many orders because they've been $2.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drivers want to know tip amount before accepting an order\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Workers have also demanded to know how much in tips they'd make before accepting or declining an order. Dashers keep 100% of their tips, but the DoorDash app only shows a guaranteed minimum amount and does not allow drivers to see how much a customer has tipped until after the driver accepts the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For orders that contain larger tips, the app shows an estimated amount rather than the full tip amount, which according to information sent to NPR from DoorDash, the company does due to the number of drivers who would repeatedly decline deliveries if they didn't have high tip amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some drivers have told \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbvgz/no-dasher-no-deliveries-doordash-drivers-strike-for-tip-transparency\">Motherboard\u003c/a> that because tip amount is factored so heavily into a driver's total earning, the tip can be the difference between making or losing money on a delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some dashers solved this problem by downloading Para, a third-party app that used DoorDash's code to let drivers see the tip amount before accepting an order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app became extremely popular, but its success was short-lived. Soon enough, in mid-July, it no longer worked with DoorDash's app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say a lot of workers woke up when Para stopped working,\" one DoorDash driver told Motherboard. \"Para showed that DoorDash is not as transparent as it could be. I think it's ridiculous that DoorDash hides tips for orders. It's very common to get no tips.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a statement from DoorDash, Para violated the company's terms of service.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Para collects its information by scraping content without authorization from the DoorDash platform. This is deeply concerning as we are committed to protecting the privacy and data security of every side of our marketplace and stakeholders,\" the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The effects of the strike are unknown so far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how many dashers have participated in the strike, though hundreds of posts about it can be found across TikTok, Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. While some people have voiced their approval and encouraged others to participate, several other commenters expressed their doubts that the strike would be effective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/EmeryldL/status/1416041255377719301\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, DoorDash called the strikers \"a vocal minority,\" but said the company was monitoring boycott conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DoorDash is proud to provide flexible, low-barrier earning opportunities for Dashers while helping restaurants grow their businesses. On average nationally, Dashers work fewer than 4 hours a week and earn over $25 an hour (while) they're on delivery, including 100% of their tips,\" DoorDash wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One driver who is participating in the strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/doordash-tiktok-boycott-base-pay-tips-ubereats-grubhub-2021-7\">told Insider\u003c/a>: \"Dashers want fair compensation for our time and efforts. We are what makes the company run but we're treated as disposable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Josie Fischels is an intern on NPR's News Desk. KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Drivers want to know tip amount before accepting an order, and have also demanded to know how much in tips they'd make before accepting or declining an order.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1627927379,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":813},"headData":{"title":"Why Some DoorDash Drivers Are on Strike | KQED","description":"Drivers want to know tip amount before accepting an order, and have also demanded to know how much in tips they'd make before accepting or declining an order.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Why Some DoorDash Drivers Are on Strike","datePublished":"2021-08-01T21:14:11.000Z","dateModified":"2021-08-02T18:02:59.000Z","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":"11883367 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11883367","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/08/01/why-some-doordash-drivers-are-on-strike/","disqusTitle":"Why Some DoorDash Drivers Are on Strike","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org/","nprByline":"Josie Fischels\u003cbr>NPR","path":"/news/11883367/why-some-doordash-drivers-are-on-strike","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Across the country, many DoorDash drivers have stopped dashing to your door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They've logged off the app for the day as part of a strike organized on social media against the food delivery service, demanding tip transparency and higher pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's why.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>It all started, presumably, on Reddit\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While the strike is nationwide and not affiliated with any particular organization, it appears to have originated on Reddit, where a post from July 15 circulated, titled, \"DOORDASH BOYCOTT ON JULY 31ST ALL DAY !!\" \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11849055","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The post urged dashers — the company name for drivers — to stop using the app for the day and to instead use Uber Eats. At the bottom the post lists demands, including a minimum \"base pay,\" the amount a driver earns on each order before a tip, of $4.50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area had its own moment of seeing DoorDash's practices take the spotlight in February when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13892479/san-francisco-jeffrey-fang-children-carjacking-kidnapping\">one DoorDash driver's car was stolen while he was delivering food with his two children inside the vehicle in San Francisco\u003c/a>. The children suffered no physical harm and were reunited with family several hours later, but the incident sparked \u003ca href=\"https://sf.eater.com/2021/2/8/22272913/doordash-kidnapping-minimum-wage-prop-22\">a public conversation around DoorDash drivers' ability to pay for child care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1358832157200838657"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Responding to the strike, DoorDash defended its practices and said dasher base pay is calculated based on the estimated time, distance and desirability of an order. Right now, dashers can expect to earn a base pay between $2 to $10+, according to DoorDash's website. Drivers say the lower end of that range had previously been $3.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As if a $3 base pay from DoorDash was not insulting enough, they've lowered it to $2, $2.25, $2.50, $2.75,\" one DoorDasher, Denise Small, said in a TikTok video that has amassed over 530,000 views. \"I've declined so many orders because they've been $2.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Drivers want to know tip amount before accepting an order\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Workers have also demanded to know how much in tips they'd make before accepting or declining an order. Dashers keep 100% of their tips, but the DoorDash app only shows a guaranteed minimum amount and does not allow drivers to see how much a customer has tipped until after the driver accepts the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For orders that contain larger tips, the app shows an estimated amount rather than the full tip amount, which according to information sent to NPR from DoorDash, the company does due to the number of drivers who would repeatedly decline deliveries if they didn't have high tip amounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some drivers have told \u003ca href=\"https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkbvgz/no-dasher-no-deliveries-doordash-drivers-strike-for-tip-transparency\">Motherboard\u003c/a> that because tip amount is factored so heavily into a driver's total earning, the tip can be the difference between making or losing money on a delivery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some dashers solved this problem by downloading Para, a third-party app that used DoorDash's code to let drivers see the tip amount before accepting an order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app became extremely popular, but its success was short-lived. Soon enough, in mid-July, it no longer worked with DoorDash's app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I would say a lot of workers woke up when Para stopped working,\" one DoorDash driver told Motherboard. \"Para showed that DoorDash is not as transparent as it could be. I think it's ridiculous that DoorDash hides tips for orders. It's very common to get no tips.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a statement from DoorDash, Para violated the company's terms of service.\u003cbr>\n\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>\"Para collects its information by scraping content without authorization from the DoorDash platform. This is deeply concerning as we are committed to protecting the privacy and data security of every side of our marketplace and stakeholders,\" the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The effects of the strike are unknown so far\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how many dashers have participated in the strike, though hundreds of posts about it can be found across TikTok, Reddit, Twitter and Facebook. While some people have voiced their approval and encouraged others to participate, several other commenters expressed their doubts that the strike would be effective.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1416041255377719301"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In a statement to NPR, DoorDash called the strikers \"a vocal minority,\" but said the company was monitoring boycott conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"DoorDash is proud to provide flexible, low-barrier earning opportunities for Dashers while helping restaurants grow their businesses. On average nationally, Dashers work fewer than 4 hours a week and earn over $25 an hour (while) they're on delivery, including 100% of their tips,\" DoorDash wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One driver who is participating in the strike \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/doordash-tiktok-boycott-base-pay-tips-ubereats-grubhub-2021-7\">told Insider\u003c/a>: \"Dashers want fair compensation for our time and efforts. We are what makes the company run but we're treated as disposable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Josie Fischels is an intern on NPR's News Desk. KQED's Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11883367/why-some-doordash-drivers-are-on-strike","authors":["byline_news_11883367"],"categories":["news_1758","news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_26532","news_17994","news_26585","news_2759","news_4569"],"featImg":"news_11871486","label":"source_news_11883367"},"news_11877137":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11877137","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11877137","score":null,"sort":[1624021309000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"no-boss-bay-area-worker-owned-businesses-thrive-during-the-pandemic-by-prioritizing-health-over-profits","title":"No Boss: Bay Area Worker-Owned Businesses Thrive During the Pandemic by Prioritizing Health Over Profits","publishDate":1624021309,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Chaos filled the aisles of Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in the early days of March 2020, before Bay Area health officers issued shelter-in-place orders to slow the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were freaked out,” said Gordon Edgar, the store’s cheese buyer since 1994. “They were treating it like a natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers crammed the 17,500-square-foot San Francisco cooperative, filling carts with toilet paper, flour and durable goods such as canned beans, fearing they would need to stay in their homes for months. Gig-economy proxy shoppers, eyes trained on shopping lists, moved erratically, bumping into other shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people pulling two or three shopping carts and buying everything they could, to prepare for their survival,” said Cody Frost, a longtime member of Rainbow's marketing department. Through double-paned upstairs office windows, Frost could hear the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A roar, a general roar, especially as the lines kind of creeped back further and further into the store,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow’s normally conscientious customers were freaking out, along with the rest of the world. These were the store’s highest-grossing days of the year, but there was no celebration: The store’s 230 worker-owners had already prioritized something besides money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were looking around like, ‘This is just not safe or healthy,’ ” Edgar said. “We want to protect workers, we want to protect the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other public-facing businesses during the pandemic, Rainbow faced the choice to operate in some form in danger to employees and customers, or to close its doors. But that decision wouldn’t be made at the top. Worker-owned cooperatives operate exactly like democracies: one person, one vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Rainbow's collectively agreed-on safety measures reflected the values of health and community: constant rearrangement of the physical space, gallons of hand sanitizer, department meetings moved awkwardly semi-online, and most of all, fanatical mask enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-800x741.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-160x148.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-1536x1422.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Rainbow Grocery customer leaves with their order at the co-op's curbside pickup location. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic workplaces may be, in a general sense, unusually adaptable in the face of large-scale emergencies. Research and interviews with worker-owners found their businesses retained and created jobs, fostered community and kept workers and the public safe. They did not generate huge profits, but they created security for everyone in and around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no hierarchy, no management. We all share equal responsibility,” said Heather Farnham, a worker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery for the past 18 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Candlestick Courier Collective, an on-demand bicycle delivery service, Christopher McCleary explained that as the group transitions to a co-op, “We have a lot more accountability to each other. And to the people we deliver to. And the people we deliver for!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of worker-owners attend meetings in addition to shift work; it isn’t always easy. But there’s no boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-1536x1074.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher McCleary of the on-demand bicycle delivery service Candlestick Courier Collective makes a delivery. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Customers and Workers Over Profits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Economic responses to the pandemic at worker-owned companies across the Bay Area included voluntary furloughs, adjusted pay scales, services such as low-volume shopping hours for seniors and other vulnerable customers, and outright temporary shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, worker-owned co-op Arizmendi Bakery's location in San Francisco's Inner Sunset had money in the bank — part of its standard cooperative practices. As a result, the bakery’s worker-owners voted to close, with full pay, for two months at the beginning of the state's stay-at-home order. Yet like their sister locations, which chose to remain open, the bakery's Sunset location is thriving today. In a traditional business, that money would likely have been sitting in the owner’s bank account (or in the form of a vacation home).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Heather Farnham, worker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery\"]'We didn’t lay anyone off. We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line'[/pullquote]At Rainbow, worker-owners chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. That service, the store's senior hours, and an in-house-managed online curbside pickup service cost Rainbow a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think grocery stores are making bank,\" Edgar said. \"But we’re not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some points during the pandemic, San Francisco allowed for 50% capacity in grocery stores – but Rainbow’s worker-owners never felt safe with more than 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that has really hit us financially,” Edgar said. “But I don’t think we would change anything we’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the pandemic, worker-owners at San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Protecting Jobs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, California had an unemployment rate of 4.5%. By March 2021, it had soared to 8.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; meaning roughly 3,287,920 people had lost their job. But a common refrain in the Bay Area co-op community makes it sounds possible none of them were members of co-operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t lay anyone off,” Arizmendi's Farnham said, pride in her voice. “We retained all of our workers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a theme among co-opers: Rainbow Grocery grew its workforce during the pandemic. Mandela Grocery Cooperative in West Oakland hired a customer who’d just been laid off from a nearby restaurant. In the South Bay, Kirk Vartan at A Slice of New York pizza co-op said the company likewise made no layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line,” Farnham said. “Part of a cooperative business is that you have this security. It was a really important aspect of riding out something so severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Adrionna Fike, worker-owner at Mandela Grocery Cooperative\"]'That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire.'[/pullquote]Dr. Nathan Schneider, a professor at University of Colorado Boulder, is a scholar of co-operatives. His book \"Everything for Everyone, the Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy\" came out in 2018; the “next economy” referenced is post-2008, not post-pandemic — but it could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been in moments of crisis where co-ops have struggled, but have also really been able to shine,” he said. “Co-ops have demonstrated their capacity to be more resilient, especially in downturns and other crises, than other kinds of businesses, because they focus on what matters in a way that’s just good for long-term health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider’s research shows these pandemic behaviors to be standard among co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-ops are less likely to do layoffs,” he said. “If you’re accountable to capital, of course, workers are expendable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Farnham (left) and Betsy Holwitz work at Arizmendi Bakery's Ninth Avenue location in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Blend of Interdependence and Autonomy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a recent online panel discussion, Mandela worker-owner and Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) board member Adrionna Fike described a web of support among co-ops, not just around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got calls [from other co-ops] saying, ‘What are you doing, can we support you, can you help us?’ ” Mutual aid kept democratic workplaces resilient as they navigated the confusingly dangerous pandemic, she said. So did their cooperative practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow supported Mandela with supplies of hand baskets. Arizmendi asked Mandela to help distribute pizzas in West Oakland – and Candlestick Courier Collective delivers for Arizmendi and other co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire,\" Fike said. \"Autonomy. Creativity. That blend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Arizmendi, Farnham’s version of community building extends outward from the bakery walls. In a time of unprecedented job loss and insecurity, the bakers worried about when to open, and how to transition from a self-service operation to a walk-up window – but they never had to worry about losing their jobs. This, Farnham says, is a selling point. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our customers, a lot of them understand that the dollars that they spend go right back to the workers, who they see and get to know,” Farnham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow, that unprofitable new curbside service is wildly popular. According to Tink Moss, one of the program’s coordinators, “The customers are really, really excited and thankful about it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing a community need, the store plans to form an e-commerce department with an eye to continuing the curbside service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the best response to COVID,” said customer Deborah Baron, as she loaded prepacked bags into her car. “I come here all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support From Local Officials\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bay Area co-ops had fairly positive interactions with local governments during the pandemic. Fike of Mandela Grocery said Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife was helpful via local aid group Community Ready Corps, which purchased batches of prepaid gift cards from Mandela to support those in need and the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city officials including Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s staff and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development were also helpful, Rainbow worker-owners said. Constant communication between the city and the co-op made it possible to keep up with fast-changing health directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other programs encourage worker-owned companies, such as the city of Berkeley's ongoing partnership with Project Equity, a nonprofit dedicated to helping owners sell companies to employees. California is also among a handful of states that support cooperative enterprises via direct policy and budget initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are embracing the worker cooperatives again, and getting our reach, and our ability to serve people and be transformative in our communities,” Fike said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11819661 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Arizmendi-bread-1020x574.jpg']Federal Paycheck Protection Program loans arrived, helped and were forgiven at Arizmendi — the company’s financial stability and its everybody-first attitude allowed use of those funds for payroll, as intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local and state government support of the cooperative model is good, it’s at the federal level that policy change could really have an impact, according to Schneider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can create financial infrastructure to make it so that worker-owners are on the same or better footing than investor-owners,” Schneider said. “We need to set our goals high. The constraints [to widespread worker-owned successes] are federal. When you open the door there, you can get exponential increases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yet-to-be-implemented Main Street Employee Ownership Act, which passed in 2018, would improve access to capital and expand technical assistance for employee-owned businesses through the federal Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy after the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877992/whats-actually-changed-in-california-now-the-state-has-reopened\">June 15 reopening\u003c/a>, Bay Area co-ops are ready to build community, create jobs and make more co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all figured it out together, and that was one of the amazing things about being part of a co-op during this natural disaster,” Arizmendi’s Farnham said, reflecting on the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bakery may be famous for pizza and pastries, but its sibling, Arizmendi Construction, plans to focus on secondary backyard housing units to address the shortage of affordable and below-market housing. Candlestick Courier plans to file papers to legally become a California cooperative corporation. And NoBAWC is restructuring as a nonprofit to get more funding and help more co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rainbow Grocery, the future means getting more shoppers in the store, but it also means extending support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we do more sponsorships and engagements with events and local organizations, as they’re kind of rebuilding and restructuring?” Frost said. “How are we going to be participating with our donations program?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Bay Area co-ops weathered the pandemic with minimal layoffs and a range of creative responses to new business challenges. No bosses or owners directed their decisions, and in crucial terms, they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard from people at other stores where big swaths of workers went down with COVID,” Edgar said. “And that did not happen here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by the City College of San Francisco Journalism Department and the \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/programs-initiatives/programs/democracy-and-the-informed-citizen/\">Democracy and Informed Citizen Emerging Journalist Fellowship\u003c/a> initiative of California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Worker-owners at Bay Area co-ops said their businesses retained jobs, fostered community and kept workers and the public safe.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1624044496,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":54,"wordCount":2269},"headData":{"title":"No Boss: Bay Area Worker-Owned Businesses Thrive During the Pandemic by Prioritizing Health Over Profits | KQED","description":"Worker-owners at Bay Area co-ops said their businesses retained jobs, fostered community and kept workers and the public safe.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"No Boss: Bay Area Worker-Owned Businesses Thrive During the Pandemic by Prioritizing Health Over Profits","datePublished":"2021-06-18T13:01:49.000Z","dateModified":"2021-06-18T19:28:16.000Z","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":"11877137 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11877137","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/06/18/no-boss-bay-area-worker-owned-businesses-thrive-during-the-pandemic-by-prioritizing-health-over-profits/","disqusTitle":"No Boss: Bay Area Worker-Owned Businesses Thrive During the Pandemic by Prioritizing Health Over Profits","source":"City College of San Francisco Journalism Department","sourceUrl":"https://www.ccsf.edu/degrees-certificates/journalism","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://hiyaswanhuyser.wordpress.com/\">Hiya Swanhuyser\u003c/a>","path":"/news/11877137/no-boss-bay-area-worker-owned-businesses-thrive-during-the-pandemic-by-prioritizing-health-over-profits","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Chaos filled the aisles of Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in the early days of March 2020, before Bay Area health officers issued shelter-in-place orders to slow the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were freaked out,” said Gordon Edgar, the store’s cheese buyer since 1994. “They were treating it like a natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers crammed the 17,500-square-foot San Francisco cooperative, filling carts with toilet paper, flour and durable goods such as canned beans, fearing they would need to stay in their homes for months. Gig-economy proxy shoppers, eyes trained on shopping lists, moved erratically, bumping into other shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people pulling two or three shopping carts and buying everything they could, to prepare for their survival,” said Cody Frost, a longtime member of Rainbow's marketing department. Through double-paned upstairs office windows, Frost could hear the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A roar, a general roar, especially as the lines kind of creeped back further and further into the store,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow’s normally conscientious customers were freaking out, along with the rest of the world. These were the store’s highest-grossing days of the year, but there was no celebration: The store’s 230 worker-owners had already prioritized something besides money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were looking around like, ‘This is just not safe or healthy,’ ” Edgar said. “We want to protect workers, we want to protect the community.”\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>Like other public-facing businesses during the pandemic, Rainbow faced the choice to operate in some form in danger to employees and customers, or to close its doors. But that decision wouldn’t be made at the top. Worker-owned cooperatives operate exactly like democracies: one person, one vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Rainbow's collectively agreed-on safety measures reflected the values of health and community: constant rearrangement of the physical space, gallons of hand sanitizer, department meetings moved awkwardly semi-online, and most of all, fanatical mask enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-800x741.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-160x148.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-1536x1422.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Rainbow Grocery customer leaves with their order at the co-op's curbside pickup location. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic workplaces may be, in a general sense, unusually adaptable in the face of large-scale emergencies. Research and interviews with worker-owners found their businesses retained and created jobs, fostered community and kept workers and the public safe. They did not generate huge profits, but they created security for everyone in and around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no hierarchy, no management. We all share equal responsibility,” said Heather Farnham, a worker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery for the past 18 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Candlestick Courier Collective, an on-demand bicycle delivery service, Christopher McCleary explained that as the group transitions to a co-op, “We have a lot more accountability to each other. And to the people we deliver to. And the people we deliver for!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of worker-owners attend meetings in addition to shift work; it isn’t always easy. But there’s no boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-1536x1074.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher McCleary of the on-demand bicycle delivery service Candlestick Courier Collective makes a delivery. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Customers and Workers Over Profits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Economic responses to the pandemic at worker-owned companies across the Bay Area included voluntary furloughs, adjusted pay scales, services such as low-volume shopping hours for seniors and other vulnerable customers, and outright temporary shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, worker-owned co-op Arizmendi Bakery's location in San Francisco's Inner Sunset had money in the bank — part of its standard cooperative practices. As a result, the bakery’s worker-owners voted to close, with full pay, for two months at the beginning of the state's stay-at-home order. Yet like their sister locations, which chose to remain open, the bakery's Sunset location is thriving today. In a traditional business, that money would likely have been sitting in the owner’s bank account (or in the form of a vacation home).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We didn’t lay anyone off. We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Heather Farnham, worker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At Rainbow, worker-owners chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. That service, the store's senior hours, and an in-house-managed online curbside pickup service cost Rainbow a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think grocery stores are making bank,\" Edgar said. \"But we’re not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some points during the pandemic, San Francisco allowed for 50% capacity in grocery stores – but Rainbow’s worker-owners never felt safe with more than 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that has really hit us financially,” Edgar said. “But I don’t think we would change anything we’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the pandemic, worker-owners at San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Protecting Jobs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, California had an unemployment rate of 4.5%. By March 2021, it had soared to 8.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; meaning roughly 3,287,920 people had lost their job. But a common refrain in the Bay Area co-op community makes it sounds possible none of them were members of co-operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t lay anyone off,” Arizmendi's Farnham said, pride in her voice. “We retained all of our workers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a theme among co-opers: Rainbow Grocery grew its workforce during the pandemic. Mandela Grocery Cooperative in West Oakland hired a customer who’d just been laid off from a nearby restaurant. In the South Bay, Kirk Vartan at A Slice of New York pizza co-op said the company likewise made no layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line,” Farnham said. “Part of a cooperative business is that you have this security. It was a really important aspect of riding out something so severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Adrionna Fike, worker-owner at Mandela Grocery Cooperative","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dr. Nathan Schneider, a professor at University of Colorado Boulder, is a scholar of co-operatives. His book \"Everything for Everyone, the Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy\" came out in 2018; the “next economy” referenced is post-2008, not post-pandemic — but it could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been in moments of crisis where co-ops have struggled, but have also really been able to shine,” he said. “Co-ops have demonstrated their capacity to be more resilient, especially in downturns and other crises, than other kinds of businesses, because they focus on what matters in a way that’s just good for long-term health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider’s research shows these pandemic behaviors to be standard among co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-ops are less likely to do layoffs,” he said. “If you’re accountable to capital, of course, workers are expendable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Farnham (left) and Betsy Holwitz work at Arizmendi Bakery's Ninth Avenue location in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Blend of Interdependence and Autonomy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a recent online panel discussion, Mandela worker-owner and Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) board member Adrionna Fike described a web of support among co-ops, not just around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got calls [from other co-ops] saying, ‘What are you doing, can we support you, can you help us?’ ” Mutual aid kept democratic workplaces resilient as they navigated the confusingly dangerous pandemic, she said. So did their cooperative practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow supported Mandela with supplies of hand baskets. Arizmendi asked Mandela to help distribute pizzas in West Oakland – and Candlestick Courier Collective delivers for Arizmendi and other co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire,\" Fike said. \"Autonomy. Creativity. That blend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Arizmendi, Farnham’s version of community building extends outward from the bakery walls. In a time of unprecedented job loss and insecurity, the bakers worried about when to open, and how to transition from a self-service operation to a walk-up window – but they never had to worry about losing their jobs. This, Farnham says, is a selling point. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our customers, a lot of them understand that the dollars that they spend go right back to the workers, who they see and get to know,” Farnham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow, that unprofitable new curbside service is wildly popular. According to Tink Moss, one of the program’s coordinators, “The customers are really, really excited and thankful about it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing a community need, the store plans to form an e-commerce department with an eye to continuing the curbside service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the best response to COVID,” said customer Deborah Baron, as she loaded prepacked bags into her car. “I come here all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support From Local Officials\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bay Area co-ops had fairly positive interactions with local governments during the pandemic. Fike of Mandela Grocery said Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife was helpful via local aid group Community Ready Corps, which purchased batches of prepaid gift cards from Mandela to support those in need and the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city officials including Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s staff and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development were also helpful, Rainbow worker-owners said. Constant communication between the city and the co-op made it possible to keep up with fast-changing health directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other programs encourage worker-owned companies, such as the city of Berkeley's ongoing partnership with Project Equity, a nonprofit dedicated to helping owners sell companies to employees. California is also among a handful of states that support cooperative enterprises via direct policy and budget initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are embracing the worker cooperatives again, and getting our reach, and our ability to serve people and be transformative in our communities,” Fike said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11819661","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Arizmendi-bread-1020x574.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Federal Paycheck Protection Program loans arrived, helped and were forgiven at Arizmendi — the company’s financial stability and its everybody-first attitude allowed use of those funds for payroll, as intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local and state government support of the cooperative model is good, it’s at the federal level that policy change could really have an impact, according to Schneider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can create financial infrastructure to make it so that worker-owners are on the same or better footing than investor-owners,” Schneider said. “We need to set our goals high. The constraints [to widespread worker-owned successes] are federal. When you open the door there, you can get exponential increases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yet-to-be-implemented Main Street Employee Ownership Act, which passed in 2018, would improve access to capital and expand technical assistance for employee-owned businesses through the federal Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy after the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877992/whats-actually-changed-in-california-now-the-state-has-reopened\">June 15 reopening\u003c/a>, Bay Area co-ops are ready to build community, create jobs and make more co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all figured it out together, and that was one of the amazing things about being part of a co-op during this natural disaster,” Arizmendi’s Farnham said, reflecting on the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bakery may be famous for pizza and pastries, but its sibling, Arizmendi Construction, plans to focus on secondary backyard housing units to address the shortage of affordable and below-market housing. Candlestick Courier plans to file papers to legally become a California cooperative corporation. And NoBAWC is restructuring as a nonprofit to get more funding and help more co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rainbow Grocery, the future means getting more shoppers in the store, but it also means extending support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we do more sponsorships and engagements with events and local organizations, as they’re kind of rebuilding and restructuring?” Frost said. “How are we going to be participating with our donations program?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Bay Area co-ops weathered the pandemic with minimal layoffs and a range of creative responses to new business challenges. No bosses or owners directed their decisions, and in crucial terms, they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard from people at other stores where big swaths of workers went down with COVID,” Edgar said. “And that did not happen here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by the City College of San Francisco Journalism Department and the \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/programs-initiatives/programs/democracy-and-the-informed-citizen/\">Democracy and Informed Citizen Emerging Journalist Fellowship\u003c/a> initiative of California Humanities.\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/11877137/no-boss-bay-area-worker-owned-businesses-thrive-during-the-pandemic-by-prioritizing-health-over-profits","authors":["byline_news_11877137"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_29579","news_29591","news_29580","news_27350","news_19904","news_29589","news_29590","news_4569"],"featImg":"news_11878277","label":"source_news_11877137"},"news_11870797":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11870797","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11870797","score":null,"sort":[1619133865000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"low-wage-workers-lack-covid-protections-fear-retaliation-california-survey-shows","title":"Low-Wage Workers Lack COVID Protections, Fear Retaliation, California Survey Shows","publishDate":1619133865,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Front-line workers in the Bay Area and other parts of California say their bosses often fail to inform them of their rights during the pandemic, and sometimes even retaliate when they ask for COVID-19 protections, according to a new survey of hundreds of workers in the restaurant, home health care, janitorial and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ALC-Workers-Rights-COVID-Report-202103-R7_digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a>, which was published Wednesday, polled more than 630 mostly low-wage workers as coronavirus cases spiked last fall. It found a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19, with many employees worried they were putting their lives at risk to earn a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the survey’s respondents were concentrated in the Bay Area, and included many immigrants and people of color. Many feared contracting the virus at work and infecting others at home, as well as not being able to support their families if they got sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/ETS.html#:~:text=California%20recently%20approved%20Cal%2FOSHA,OSHA's%20Aerosol%20Transmissible%20Diseases%20standard.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">must\u003c/a> provide health and safety information and training, and let workers know of coronavirus-related benefits available to them, such as paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of the surveyed workers said their employer did not inform them what to do if they had COVID-19 symptoms or exposure. And three in five surveyed said they weren’t informed about their right to use paid sick leave for COVID-19, according to the report titled “Few Options, Many Risks.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Winnie Kao, attorney with the Asian Law Caucus\"]'Workers really feel that they're risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you're potentially losing your job.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are troubling for efforts to contain the virus, since one in three respondents felt uncomfortable reporting coronavirus symptoms to their bosses, said Winnie Kao, an attorney with San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus and one of the authors of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be protections out there on paper, but many folks don't know about them,” said Kao, who leads her organization’s workers rights project. “Workers really feel that they're risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you're potentially losing your job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kao said many workers are not speaking up about COVID-19 concerns out of fear of retaliation or doubt that their employer will address the problem. But even worse, dozens of workers who did ask for COVID-19 protections, such as masks or paid leave, reported retaliation from their employers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870819\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11870819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-160x184.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Velazquez, a mother of two sons, says her employer retaliated by cutting her hours after she took time off to get her COVID-19 vaccine and recover from side effects. \u003ccite>(Fight for $15 campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey was disseminated through nonprofit groups serving immigrants and low-wage workers, and about 40% of respondents identified as Asian, with another 40% Latinos. The vast majority of participants responded to the survey in Chinese or Spanish, suggesting they were immigrants, said Kao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-income communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the virus. For example, since the beginning of the pandemic, 10,400 working-age Latinos in California have died from COVID-19, four times the number of white people in the same age group, according to California Department of Public Health figures. People who work outside the home face a higher risk of exposure to the virus, say public health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But basic prevention measures were not available to many of the workers surveyed, with 33% of all respondents — including more than half of restaurant workers — saying they could not physically distance most of the time at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers in California are responsible for providing masks or reimbursing employees who buy their own, but 12% of respondents said they did not receive face coverings or protective equipment from their bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another troubling finding of the report: nearly one in five workers reported being paid less than the state’s minimum wage. The report authors say that’s often a signal of other violations in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Department of Industrial Relations said the agency’s enforcement divisions have been working hard to educate employers about their responsibilities and to investigate workplace complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued more than $4.6 million in citations for COVID-related health and safety violations, said Erika Monterroza, with the Department of Industrial Relations. She added that the Labor Commissioner’s Office is investigating more than 1,200 wage and retaliation complaints connected to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsafe working conditions, wage theft and employer retaliation are long-standing problems for the lowest paid workers in the state. But the pandemic has brought a new urgency to addressing these abuses, and fixing them will require more funding, staffing and attention at the government agencies that enforce labor laws, said Alejandra Domenzain, a co-author of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"large\" align=\"center\" citation=\"Alejandra Domenzain, program coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley\"]'As long as there is no vigorous enforcement of labor laws, employers will continue to violate workers' rights.[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\n“As long as there is no vigorous enforcement of labor laws, employers will continue to violate workers' rights,” said Domenzain, a program coordinator at the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley. “If an employer knows that there will be absolutely no accountability, then there's very little incentive for a lot of these low-wage employers to comply with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/covid/paid-sick-leave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are entitled\u003c/a> to up to 80 hours of paid sick leave (depending on the size of their employer) if they have coronavirus symptoms, must care for a relative with COVID-19 or have vaccine-related side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Lorena Velazquez took time off to get her vaccine on April 6 and then recover from an ensuing fever and arm pain, she said her employer at a McDonald’s in Oakland retaliated by cutting her hours in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to work four days per week regularly, but then they only gave me two days,” said Velazquez, 45, in Spanish. “Now I’m worried about paying my bills and rent.” [aside tag=\"workers-rights, low-wage\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of worker advocates, Velazquez filed a complaint about the alleged retaliation with the Labor Commissioner’s Office this week. Other workers at the same McDonald’s also filed complaints with Cal/OSHA, alleging their employer failed to notify them of potential exposure to co-workers confirmed with COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/AB6852020FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as required\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant’s manager was not available to respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Velazquez, who has two young sons to support, rallied with other fast food workers outside the McDonald’s on E. 12th St. in Oakland in support of a state bill that aims to improve conditions for fast food workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 257\u003c/a>, by Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, would also make fast food franchisors liable for violations of employment, safety and other laws by their franchisees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Additional information on reporting a labor violation can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/Know_Your_Rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> (available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report a labor law violation \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToReportViolationtoBOFE.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to file a retaliation/discrimination complaint can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileRetaliationComplaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The report polled more than 630 mostly low-wage workers as coronavirus cases spiked last fall — finding a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1619193426,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1282},"headData":{"title":"Low-Wage Workers Lack COVID Protections, Fear Retaliation, California Survey Shows | KQED","description":"The report polled more than 630 mostly low-wage workers as coronavirus cases spiked last fall — finding a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Low-Wage Workers Lack COVID Protections, Fear Retaliation, California Survey Shows","datePublished":"2021-04-22T23:24:25.000Z","dateModified":"2021-04-23T15:57:06.000Z","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":"11870797 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11870797","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/22/low-wage-workers-lack-covid-protections-fear-retaliation-california-survey-shows/","disqusTitle":"Low-Wage Workers Lack COVID Protections, Fear Retaliation, California Survey Shows","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/43a73111-3cac-4772-80da-ad1201100f28/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11870797/low-wage-workers-lack-covid-protections-fear-retaliation-california-survey-shows","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Front-line workers in the Bay Area and other parts of California say their bosses often fail to inform them of their rights during the pandemic, and sometimes even retaliate when they ask for COVID-19 protections, according to a new survey of hundreds of workers in the restaurant, home health care, janitorial and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ALC-Workers-Rights-COVID-Report-202103-R7_digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a>, which was published Wednesday, polled more than 630 mostly low-wage workers as coronavirus cases spiked last fall. It found a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19, with many employees worried they were putting their lives at risk to earn a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the survey’s respondents were concentrated in the Bay Area, and included many immigrants and people of color. Many feared contracting the virus at work and infecting others at home, as well as not being able to support their families if they got sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/ETS.html#:~:text=California%20recently%20approved%20Cal%2FOSHA,OSHA's%20Aerosol%20Transmissible%20Diseases%20standard.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">must\u003c/a> provide health and safety information and training, and let workers know of coronavirus-related benefits available to them, such as paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of the surveyed workers said their employer did not inform them what to do if they had COVID-19 symptoms or exposure. And three in five surveyed said they weren’t informed about their right to use paid sick leave for COVID-19, according to the report titled “Few Options, Many Risks.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Workers really feel that they're risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you're potentially losing your job.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Winnie Kao, attorney with the Asian Law Caucus","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are troubling for efforts to contain the virus, since one in three respondents felt uncomfortable reporting coronavirus symptoms to their bosses, said Winnie Kao, an attorney with San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus and one of the authors of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be protections out there on paper, but many folks don't know about them,” said Kao, who leads her organization’s workers rights project. “Workers really feel that they're risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you're potentially losing your job.”\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>Kao said many workers are not speaking up about COVID-19 concerns out of fear of retaliation or doubt that their employer will address the problem. But even worse, dozens of workers who did ask for COVID-19 protections, such as masks or paid leave, reported retaliation from their employers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870819\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11870819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-160x184.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Velazquez, a mother of two sons, says her employer retaliated by cutting her hours after she took time off to get her COVID-19 vaccine and recover from side effects. \u003ccite>(Fight for $15 campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey was disseminated through nonprofit groups serving immigrants and low-wage workers, and about 40% of respondents identified as Asian, with another 40% Latinos. The vast majority of participants responded to the survey in Chinese or Spanish, suggesting they were immigrants, said Kao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-income communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the virus. For example, since the beginning of the pandemic, 10,400 working-age Latinos in California have died from COVID-19, four times the number of white people in the same age group, according to California Department of Public Health figures. People who work outside the home face a higher risk of exposure to the virus, say public health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But basic prevention measures were not available to many of the workers surveyed, with 33% of all respondents — including more than half of restaurant workers — saying they could not physically distance most of the time at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers in California are responsible for providing masks or reimbursing employees who buy their own, but 12% of respondents said they did not receive face coverings or protective equipment from their bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another troubling finding of the report: nearly one in five workers reported being paid less than the state’s minimum wage. The report authors say that’s often a signal of other violations in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Department of Industrial Relations said the agency’s enforcement divisions have been working hard to educate employers about their responsibilities and to investigate workplace complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued more than $4.6 million in citations for COVID-related health and safety violations, said Erika Monterroza, with the Department of Industrial Relations. She added that the Labor Commissioner’s Office is investigating more than 1,200 wage and retaliation complaints connected to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsafe working conditions, wage theft and employer retaliation are long-standing problems for the lowest paid workers in the state. But the pandemic has brought a new urgency to addressing these abuses, and fixing them will require more funding, staffing and attention at the government agencies that enforce labor laws, said Alejandra Domenzain, a co-author of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'As long as there is no vigorous enforcement of labor laws, employers will continue to violate workers' rights.","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"large","align":"center","citation":"Alejandra Domenzain, program coordinator, Labor Occupational Health Program, UC Berkeley","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“As long as there is no vigorous enforcement of labor laws, employers will continue to violate workers' rights,” said Domenzain, a program coordinator at the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley. “If an employer knows that there will be absolutely no accountability, then there's very little incentive for a lot of these low-wage employers to comply with the law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/covid/paid-sick-leave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">are entitled\u003c/a> to up to 80 hours of paid sick leave (depending on the size of their employer) if they have coronavirus symptoms, must care for a relative with COVID-19 or have vaccine-related side effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when Lorena Velazquez took time off to get her vaccine on April 6 and then recover from an ensuing fever and arm pain, she said her employer at a McDonald’s in Oakland retaliated by cutting her hours in half.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I used to work four days per week regularly, but then they only gave me two days,” said Velazquez, 45, in Spanish. “Now I’m worried about paying my bills and rent.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"workers-rights, low-wage","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the help of worker advocates, Velazquez filed a complaint about the alleged retaliation with the Labor Commissioner’s Office this week. Other workers at the same McDonald’s also filed complaints with Cal/OSHA, alleging their employer failed to notify them of potential exposure to co-workers confirmed with COVID-19, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/AB6852020FAQs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as required\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The restaurant’s manager was not available to respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Velazquez, who has two young sons to support, rallied with other fast food workers outside the McDonald’s on E. 12th St. in Oakland in support of a state bill that aims to improve conditions for fast food workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assembly Bill 257\u003c/a>, by Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, would also make fast food franchisors liable for violations of employment, safety and other laws by their franchisees.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Resources:\u003c/h3>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Additional information on reporting a labor violation can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSE/Know_Your_Rights.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a> (available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog and Vietnamese).\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Report a labor law violation \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToReportViolationtoBOFE.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>How to file a retaliation/discrimination complaint can be found \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/HowToFileRetaliationComplaint.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\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/11870797/low-wage-workers-lack-covid-protections-fear-retaliation-california-survey-shows","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_26334","news_27504","news_29044","news_29382","news_29383","news_4569"],"featImg":"news_11870815","label":"news"},"news_11869694":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11869694","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11869694","score":null,"sort":[1618529141000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"some-laid-off-workers-must-be-offered-their-jobs-back-under-bill-sent-to-newsom","title":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom","publishDate":1618529141,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As more businesses reopen across California as coronavirus cases decline, the Legislature on Thursday passed a bill requiring some hotels and other hospitality companies to offer laid-off workers their jobs back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitality companies were some of the hardest hit by the state's stay-at-home order, with no people to stay in hotels while empty office buildings and deserted airports needed fewer janitors and food service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has been relaxing coronavirus restrictions as more people are getting vaccinated and the number of new cases declines. If things continue to improve, Newsom said he will lift all restrictions on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With companies preparing to resume normal operations, Democrats who control the Legislature said they wanted to make sure laid-off hospitality workers are first in line to get their old jobs back. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB93\">Senate Bill 93\u003c/a> requires hotels, private clubs and janitorial service companies to let their former employees know when their jobs are available again and give them five days to decide on whether they want to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed a similar bill last year. But Newsom vetoed it, saying it was too broad and put too much of a burden on struggling businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers made revisions this year to change Newsom's mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, the new bill only applies to workers who had their job for at least six months before the pandemic started and were laid off specifically because of the pandemic. Also, laid-off workers cannot file lawsuits to enforce the law. Instead, the Division of Labor Standards has \"exclusive jurisdiction\" to enforce it. And the bill will automatically expire on Dec. 31, 2024, unless lawmakers agree to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not said if he will sign this bill into law. But lawmakers used the budget process to pass the bill, meaning the governor's office was part of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Labor Coverage' tag='labor']The bill applies to hotels with 50 or more rooms, and event centers – including stadiums, arenas, racetracks and convention centers – that have at least 50,000 square feet or 1,000 seats used for public performances or meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses that don't comply could be hit with fines of $500 per employee per day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Heath Flora, R-Ripon, said most companies don't need to be forced to rehire their former workers, saying many will be eager to do so because those workers are already trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But to put the burden, to the fines, the fees, the liability on the employer is unacceptable,\" Flora said on Monday during a debate on the bill in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats said the the bill protects workers. State Sen. Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, said women lost more jobs and left the workforce in greater numbers than men during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So you could also look at this bill as a very important bill to get women back in the workplace,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The bill lawmakers passed on Thursday applies to hospitality employees who had their jobs at least six months before the pandemic started and who lost their jobs because of it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1618531426,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":494},"headData":{"title":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom | KQED","description":"The bill lawmakers passed on Thursday applies to hospitality employees who had their jobs at least six months before the pandemic started and who lost their jobs because of it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom","datePublished":"2021-04-15T23:25:41.000Z","dateModified":"2021-04-16T00:03:46.000Z","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":"11869694 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11869694","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/04/15/some-laid-off-workers-must-be-offered-their-jobs-back-under-bill-sent-to-newsom/","disqusTitle":"Some Laid-Off Workers Must Be Offered Their Jobs Back Under Bill Sent to Newsom","nprByline":"Adam Beam\u003cbr />Associated Press","path":"/news/11869694/some-laid-off-workers-must-be-offered-their-jobs-back-under-bill-sent-to-newsom","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As more businesses reopen across California as coronavirus cases decline, the Legislature on Thursday passed a bill requiring some hotels and other hospitality companies to offer laid-off workers their jobs back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitality companies were some of the hardest hit by the state's stay-at-home order, with no people to stay in hotels while empty office buildings and deserted airports needed fewer janitors and food service workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has been relaxing coronavirus restrictions as more people are getting vaccinated and the number of new cases declines. If things continue to improve, Newsom said he will lift all restrictions on June 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With companies preparing to resume normal operations, Democrats who control the Legislature said they wanted to make sure laid-off hospitality workers are first in line to get their old jobs back. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB93\">Senate Bill 93\u003c/a> requires hotels, private clubs and janitorial service companies to let their former employees know when their jobs are available again and give them five days to decide on whether they want to come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Legislature passed a similar bill last year. But Newsom vetoed it, saying it was too broad and put too much of a burden on struggling businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers made revisions this year to change Newsom's mind.\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>For one thing, the new bill only applies to workers who had their job for at least six months before the pandemic started and were laid off specifically because of the pandemic. Also, laid-off workers cannot file lawsuits to enforce the law. Instead, the Division of Labor Standards has \"exclusive jurisdiction\" to enforce it. And the bill will automatically expire on Dec. 31, 2024, unless lawmakers agree to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom has not said if he will sign this bill into law. But lawmakers used the budget process to pass the bill, meaning the governor's office was part of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More Labor Coverage ","tag":"labor"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bill applies to hotels with 50 or more rooms, and event centers – including stadiums, arenas, racetracks and convention centers – that have at least 50,000 square feet or 1,000 seats used for public performances or meetings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Businesses that don't comply could be hit with fines of $500 per employee per day. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblyman Heath Flora, R-Ripon, said most companies don't need to be forced to rehire their former workers, saying many will be eager to do so because those workers are already trained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But to put the burden, to the fines, the fees, the liability on the employer is unacceptable,\" Flora said on Monday during a debate on the bill in the Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats said the the bill protects workers. State Sen. 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The push comes as thousands of local workers in battered industries – including most recently United Airlines workers at SFO – face a fresh round of furloughs and layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press event Tuesday, Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael, said the pandemic has devastated his district’s economy, which is driven by tourism, travel and recreation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We still got a really long, difficult road ahead of us and without decisive, comprehensive help, families and employers in my district, also throughout California and around this country, just can't keep the lights on for much longer,” said Huffman, whose district spans from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huffman and 218 other House Democrats \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/02/26/biden-stimulus-covid-relief/\">passed the American Rescue Plan Act last weekend\u003c/a> without a single Republican vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://huffman.house.gov/imo/media/doc/UPDATED%20HR%201319%20The%20American%20Rescue%20Plan%20Act.pdf\">bill\u003c/a> includes a one-time stimulus check of up to $1,400 per person, and emergency measures to protect jobs, such as $15 billion to extend the Payroll Support Program, which has stopped furloughs and layoffs for workers in the aviation industry but is set to expire on March 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Jan. 29, United Airlines notified more than 3,100 workers based at San Francisco International Airport of potential involuntary furloughs starting in April, according to official \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/Jobs_and_Training/Layoff_Services_WARN.htm\">filings\u003c/a> the company submitted with the California Employment Development Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the United workers at SFO who are facing furloughs are flight attendants, said Taylor Garland, a spokesperson for the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA union, which represents nearly 50,000 flight attendants at 17 airlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flight attendants around the country are calling their representatives and senators to encourage them to vote \"yes\" on the American Rescue Plan Act, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The last year has been devastating for the airline industry and especially the people on the front lines, including flight attendants,” said Garland. “We fully expect that bill to pass and for the Payroll Support Program to be extended before these furloughs would take effect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Coronavirus Coverage' tag='coronavirus']Republican lawmakers have so far opposed the bill, \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhansen/2021/03/02/mcconnell-says-republicans-will-fight-bidens-19-trillion-stimulus-bill-in-every-way-that-we-can/?sh=253b6b546005\">saying\u003c/a> it is too expensive and contains provisions that are not directly related to fixing the health crisis. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, vowed to fight the proposal, which he \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/politics/stimulus-covid-relief-bill-senate/index.html\">called\u003c/a> a \"bonanza of partisan spending.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The relief package that was approved by the Democratic-controlled House and sent to the Senate would also provide more than $71 billion to expand COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, $27 billion to address health disparities and protect vulnerable populations, and nearly $130 billion to reopen K-12 schools safely, among other measures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nationwide, United Airlines notified 14,000 employees of potential temporary layoffs on April 1, said Annabelle Cottee, a spokeswoman with the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, United also put 36,000 employees on furlough notices, including nearly 7,000 at SFO. Those temporary layoffs were set to go into effect in October 2020, but the company was able to keep many of the workers employed, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cottee stressed the current round of furloughs may also impact fewer employees than the number that received notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are working on lowering that number just like we did last year,\" Cottee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Bay Area members of Congress are calling on GOP lawmakers to support a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as thousands of local workers in battered industries face new furloughs and layoffs.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1614813437,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":571},"headData":{"title":"As SFO's United Workers Face Furloughs, Lawmakers Say COVID-19 Relief Bill Could Help Save Bay Area Jobs | KQED","description":"Bay Area members of Congress are calling on GOP lawmakers to support a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill as thousands of local workers in battered industries face new furloughs and layoffs.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"As SFO's United Workers Face Furloughs, Lawmakers Say COVID-19 Relief Bill Could Help Save Bay Area Jobs","datePublished":"2021-03-03T21:00:02.000Z","dateModified":"2021-03-03T23:17:17.000Z","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":"11862897 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11862897","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/03/03/as-sfos-united-workers-face-furloughs-lawmakers-say-covid-19-relief-bill-could-help-save-bay-area-jobs/","disqusTitle":"As SFO's United Workers Face Furloughs, Lawmakers Say COVID-19 Relief Bill Could Help Save Bay Area Jobs","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2021/03/RomeroTravelRelief.mp3","path":"/news/11862897/as-sfos-united-workers-face-furloughs-lawmakers-say-covid-19-relief-bill-could-help-save-bay-area-jobs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area members of Congress are calling on Republican lawmakers to support a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill that the U.S. Senate is expected to take up this week. The push comes as thousands of local workers in battered industries – including most recently United Airlines workers at SFO – face a fresh round of furloughs and layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a press event Tuesday, Rep. 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