Today's labour news
California A double whammy for California’s jobless workers 2020-10-23 [Mercury News]
California Risk factors for occupational heat‐related illness among California workers, 2000–2017 2020-10-22 [Wiley Online Library]
California Silicon Valley's workforce is feeling more burned out than before the pandemic, with nearly 70% reporting work-home-home exhaustion 2020-10-18 [Biz Insider]
VIDEO California Call To Jail UBER/LYFT CEO's: Workers & Unions In Rally In SF At UBER World HQ Against CA Anti-Labor Prop 22 For more info 2020-10-16 [LVP]
VIDEO California Gig Economy Hurts Workers - Vote ‘No’ to Hold Companies Accountable for Minimum Wage, Other Labor Rights 2020-10-15 [Human Rights Watch]
VIDEO California Rochester Labor Council Calls For General Strike If Trump Refuses to Abide By Election Results For more info 2020-10-15 [LVP]
California #MeToo Update: Hollywood Workers Demand Accountability for Sexual Abuse 2020-10-12 [Ms.]
California East Bay health care workers strike forces county to disband the boss 2020-10-11 [Labor Notes]
VIDEO California Striking AHS SEIU 1021 & NNU-CNA Workers Hear Alameda Supervisors Promise To Fire AHS Bosses For more info 2020-10-09 [LVP]
VIDEO California SEIU 1021 AHS Highland Hospital Workers Strike For PPE, Against Contracting Out and Privatization For more info 2020-10-08 [LVP]
California Understaffed and Unsafe, Bay Area Hospital Workers Strike 2020-10-07 [Labour Notes]
California How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws 2020-10-05 [The American Prospect]
VIDEO California CCSF Black Trade Unionists & Supporters Speak Out At SF City Hall Against Systemic Racism And Corruption For more info 2020-10-04 [LVP]
VIDEO California AHS San Leandro Hospital NNU CNA Nurses Fighting Covid, For PPE & Conditions For Nurses & Patients For more info 2020-10-02 [LVP]
California CA governor vetoes bill to help displaced workers For more info 2020-10-01 [KCRA]
California Do California hotel workers deserve extra job security? They think so 2020-09-27 [LATimes]
California Worker’s Rights Board Hearing on Health Worker’s Work Conditions at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital - Sept 26, 2020 2020-09-27 [Sonoma Cty Gazette]
VIDEO California Stop Murders At Foster Farms Factory In Livingston! Workers/Community Demand 'Lives Over Profits' For more info 2020-09-26 [LVP]
VIDEO California 'Stop Rigging The Election' SEIU 1021 Oakland Workers Demand Union Democracy In Midst Of Covid Pandemic For more info 2020-09-25 [LVP]
California California, Here’s How to Protect Essential Workers 2020-09-24 [CA Health Report]
California ‘I’m so scared’: California nail salon workers face ruin as pandemic wears on 2020-09-20 [SFChronicle]
California CalMatters: Bill’s defeat keeps undocumented garment workers in meager wages 2020-09-20 [Ukiah Daily Jrnl]
VIDEO California IUOE 39 Members Standing Up In The Middle Of A Pandemic! SF Solidarity Rally For Striking Macy's IUOE 39 Engineers For more info 2020-09-18 [LVP]
VIDEO California The Foster Farms Covid-19 Deaths and The Community With Deep Singh of The Jakara Movement For more info 2020-09-14 [LVP]
California These workers in Monterey CA were picking peas in thick smoke & haze for .54 cents a pound. The UFW continues to advocate for all farm workers 2020-09-13 [UFW]
California ‘I am part of the collateral damage’: Trump’s TikTok battle creates nightmare for some tech workers 2020-09-12 [LATimes]
VIDEO California 9/11 & Maximum Yield: John Sferazo Ironworker 9/11 First Responder For more info 2020-09-12 [LVP]
California Pacifica’s Covid, Race & Democracy On LaborDay 2020 For more info 2020-09-09 [Pacifica]
VIDEO California Labor Day Unite Here 2 and SEIU 87 Protest Lyft Union Busting & For Healthcare and Income With Covid For more info 2020-09-08 [LVP]
California Domestic workers like me deserve health and safety protections like other workers 2020-09-06 [Cal Matters]
California Uber Is Hurting Drivers Like Me in Its Legal Fight in California 2020-09-05 [NYTimes]
California Apple Must Pay Workers for Time Undergoing Exit Searches 2020-09-02 [Bloomberg]
California AHMC Healthcare Workers Hold Vigil For Colleagues Who Lost Battle With Coronavirus 2020-09-02 [CBS]
California Foster Farms to temporarily close poultry plant after 8 workers die of COVID-19 2020-08-30 [LATimes]
VIDEO California DeJoy Resign! SF APWU Postal Workers & Supporters Of Post Office Protest Privatization and Attacks on USPO For more info 2020-08-30 [LVP]
California 'They don't care about the workers': Foster Farms employee at Livingston plant says he's scared to go back 2020-08-29 [ABC]
California California COVID-19 workers’ comp claims soar 2020-08-27 [Lake Cty Record-Bee]
California Farm workers are laboring in dangerous wildfire smoke. What is Cal/OSHA doing to protect them? 2020-08-27 [UFW]
California Overturning Austerity 101 2020-08-26 [Labor Notes]
California All hail the California court that put the brakes on Uber and co 2020-08-25 [The Observer]
VIDEO California 'Pay Us Benefits' and 'No On Prop 22' UBER Workers Protest At SF UBER World HQ For more info 2020-08-21 [LVP]
VIDEO California In Midst Of Covid Pandemic SMART Local 1741 SF School Bus Drivers Face Attack By SFUSD & First Student On Healthcare For more info 2020-08-19 [LVP]
California H-1B: Bay Area foreign tech workers stranded in India after President Trump’s visa order 2020-08-17 [Mercury News]
California Wage theft plagues L.A. garment workers. Why aren’t fashion retailers held responsible? 2020-08-17 [LATimes]
California Low-wage workers face retaliation for demanding COVID-19 safety measures at work 2020-08-15 [The Times]
VIDEO California Giant's Owner 'Trying To Boot Us Out' Unite-Here Local 2 Concession Workers Protest At AT&T Stadium For more info 2020-08-15 [LVP]
California California sues Uber, Lyft for driver wage theft 2020-08-14 [Brinkwire]
California Dying Young: The Health Care Workers in Their 20s Killed by COVID-19 2020-08-13 [KHN]
California CA Labor Commissioner’s Office Files Lawsuits Against Uber and Lyft for Engaging in Systemic Wage Theft 2020-08-08 [Sierra Sun Times]
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