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Powerful Amazon Organizing Call Builds Towards February 20 Day of Action Organizing Meeting Support Alabama Amazon Workers https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=461776385192382&ref=watch_permalink...Continue reading

Day Zero: How and Why Cuba Unified its Dual Currency System https://www.resumen-english.org//day-zero-how-and-why-cub/ By Helen Yaffe on February 10, 2021 The first of January 2021 was known as Day Zero in Cuba. After almost three decades of operating with a dual currency, Cuba’s national peso (CUP) and its convertible peso (CUC) were unified as part of a broader process of monetary ordering that also involves major price adjustments, the elimination of excessive [stat...Continue reading

Meet Amazon's Unionbusters Amazon hired a former Teamster official to break the union in Alabama https://ucommblog.com//corporat/meet-amazons-unionbusters by Kris LaGrange on ...Continue reading

One Amazon Warehouse Worker In Alabama Has 'No Doubt' Her Coworkers Will Vote To Unionize https://www.wbur.org//2021/02/11/amazon-union-warehouse-al February 11, 2021 Tonya MosleySamantha Raphelson...Continue reading

2/15/21 Oakland Rally To Demand 1,000 Ca-OSHA Inspectors, PPE & Health and Safety On The Job Stop The Murders and Pandemic In Our Workplaces NOW! Monday February 15, 2021 12:00 noon Oakland State Building OSHA Offices ... 1515 Clay St. Oakland Workers and trade unionists will speak about about the failure of the the California Cal-OSHA to protect workers on the job. There are less than 200 inspectors in California for 18 million workers. In fact there are more Fish and Game inspectors than OSHA inspectors. In Los Angeles over 700 longshoreman are infected and 12 have died. At Foster Farms in the Central Valley 13 workers have died and workers face a lack of PPE and masks to protect their lives and those of their families. Farmworkers in California are being treated as disposable workers. This is over a year after the pandemic has ripped through California workplaces. Healthcare workers at Highland Hospital, San Francisco General, Kaiser, Sutter and UC are still fighting against reusing PPE masks and gowns and Cal-OSHA is unable to do regular physical inspections even after complaints. Healthcare workers are dying as a result of the failure to have proper protection for them and their patients. Plants like billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla in Fremont has no Cal-OSHA inspections to enforce the law and other workers at Amazon, UBER and even public transit agencies are not getting regular inspections because of the virtual collapse of Cal-OSHA. Governor Newsom earlier this year instituted a freeze on hiring. Although this has recently been lifted this we are seeing the death agony of this critical agency in the middle of a deadly and historic pandemic. Apparently profits are above lives for the worker of California Cal-OSHA has become a ghost agency when workers need it the most. For more Information: committeeforlaborparty(at)gmail.com Sponsored by United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP https://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com Alliance For Independent Workers United Public Workers For Action upwa.info

Burlingame (AFSCME) Local 829 nursing home workers strike Action seeks better wages, benefits and more staffing https://www.smdailyjournal.com//article_f64bc00e-6cef-11eb...Continue reading

Prop 22 Is an Assault on the Rights and Dignity of Uber, Lyft, Postmates Workers No Class is an op-ed column by writer and radical organizer Kim Kelly that connects worker struggles and the current state of the American labor movement with its storied and sometimes bloodied past. BY KIM KELLY OCTOBER 30, 2020...Continue reading

How Does Harris View Big Business? Her Time as California’s Top Lawyer Offers Clues As attorney general for six years, Kamala Harris took a moderate, realpolitik approach to going after big business, aides say. https://www.nytimes.com//kamala-harris-california-business...Continue reading

GOP Lt. Gov. Drives Around With Gun and Bible To Protest COVID Restrictions in Idaho as Cases Soar https://www.newsweek.com/idaho-protest-coronavirus-video-lt BY REBECCA SPEARE-COLE ON 10/30/20 AT 9:17 AM EDT ...Continue reading

Big Charter Money in School Board Elections CAMPAIGN FINANCE UPDATE 10/30/20 Big Charter Money in School Board Elections... Charter interests are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy School Board Seats in Oakland and West Contra Costa County. Based on required filings with the County Clerk, Charter interests have contributed more than $189,000 directly to the campaigns of Panas, DePaz, Williams, and Alleyne for the WCCUSD Board of Education Races. By far the largest contributor to the 2020 race is the two-pronged pro-charter school entity: - GO Public Schools (a charter advocacy organization replicated in districts across the country) here as - West Contra Costa Kids Can (WCCKC). This is one of the astro-turf organizations founded and funded by one of our district’s millionaire charter operators, Steve Chamberlain (Summit). This organization is spending about $250,000 to benefit four candidates: Area 1: Estella DePaz Area 2: Golddie Williams Area 5: Tom Panas County BOE: Fatima Alleyne United Teachers of Richmond (UTR) has contributed less than one-third that, about $72,000, to try to counter the charter money to support: Area 1: Jamela Smith-Folds Area 2: Otheree Christian Area 4: Demetrio Gonzalez-Hoy County Area 5: Leslie Reckler BOE: Consuelo Lara Here is the breakdown: 1) WCCKC has contributed $189,000 directly to the four candidates: Depaz, Williams, Panas and Alleyne. Much of this has been in-kind contributions of staff, consulting, and polling which strongly suggests that the WCCKC is actually running the campaigns. 2) WCCKC funds almost the entire campaigns of DePaz, Williams and Alleyne. 3) WCCKC and Tom Panas fund $62,000 of Alleyne's total contributions of $$79,000 4) WCCKC funds $59,000 of Depaz's $70,000 5) WCCKC funds $62,000 of Williams' $65,000 6) Tom Panas and his committee have contributed $9,000 to Fatima Alleyne's campaign. 7) Tom Panas (Area 5) loaned $104,000 and contributed $26,000 to his $170,000 campaign .WCCKC funds $35,00. 8) Leslie Reckler (Area 5) has loaned $42,000 and contributed $10,000 to her $$77,000 campaign. 9) UTR has contributed $72,000 to Smith-Folds, Gonzalez-Hoy, Christian, Reckler and Lara. 10) IBEW Local 302 has contributed $6,000 to two candidates: Christian and Smith-Folds. 11) The vast majority of the financing of DePaz, Williams, Panas, and Alleyne is de-facto from Ron Nahas, Steve Chamberlin (via the organizations WCCKC and GO Public Schools), and Tom Panas. (All of this information is based on required filings as of October 30,2020 with the County Clerk) See our website at publiccore.net or write us at [email protected]

Seven California home health care providers appeal over SEIU taking Medicaid payments from their paychecks https://www.mdjonline.com//article_ca6a3394-e7cb-53f2-bc43 By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square Oct 26, 2020 Updated Oct 26, 2020 ...Continue reading

Governor Newsom & Corrupt CA Democrats Took Money From Criminal PG&E Murders From Fires-Demos Let PG&E Off The Hook https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA2TuDHbxvA&feature=youtu.be California Governor Gavin Newsom accepted money from a convicted felon | PG&E Investigation 109,931 viewsJul 2, 2019... A convicted federal felon donated more than four million dollars to influence California politics and the money was accepted by California Governor Gavin Newsom, the vast majority of members of the state legislature, and both major political parties. That felon: PG&E. Full story: https://www.abc10.com/article/news/in... Follow Brandon on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brandonritti... EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is part of the ABC10 Originals project FIRE - POWER - MONEY, a documentary series that breaks down California’s wildfire crisis into its core elements. In three episodes, we expose the reasons wildfires are deadlier than ever, how PG&E influences our politics despite felony convictions and being blamed for starting fires that killed 107 people, and what it’ll cost to pay for the damage and make California safer from fire.

How Amazon keeps a close eye on employee activism to head off unions https://www.cnbc.com//how-amazon-prevents-unions-by-survei PUBLISHED SAT, OCT 24 202010:30 AM EDT...Continue reading

FBI arrests white supremacy leader in extremism crackdown in Michigan https://www.detroitnews.com//fbi-arrests-accus/6067038002/ Robert Snell...Continue reading

US Unions discussing general strike if Trump refuses to accept Biden victory Union federations in Rochester, Seattle and Massachusetts approved resolutions should Trump seek to subvert outcome https://www.theguardian.com/.../us-unions-general-strike... Steven Greenhouse Fri 30 Oct 2020 03.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 30 Oct 2020 13.19 EDT...Continue reading

Whistleblower Protection Public Health Emergencies Concerning a worker's rights in the workplace for conduct related to a principal's actions during a public health emergency, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation. https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1415 HB20-1415 SESSION: 2020 Regular Session... SUBJECT: Labor & Employment BILL SUMMARY The act prohibits a principal, which includes an employer, certain labor contractors, public employers, and entities that contract with 5 or more independent contractors, from discriminating, retaliating, or taking adverse action against any worker who: In good faith, raises any concern about workplace health and safety practices or hazards related to a public health emergency to the principal, the principal's agent, other workers, a government agency, or the public if the workplace health and safety practices fail to meet guidelines established by a federal, state, or local public health agency with jurisdiction over the workplace; Voluntarily wears at the worker's workplace the worker's own personal protective equipment, such as a mask, faceguard, or gloves, under specified circumstances; or Opposes a practice the worker reasonably believes is unlawful or makes a charge, testifies, assists, or participates in an investigation, proceeding, or hearing of alleged unlawful acts. Additionally, a principal is prohibited from requiring or attempting to require a worker to sign a contract or other agreement that limits or prevents the worker from disclosing information about workplace health and safety practices or hazards related to a public health emergency. A worker who knowingly discloses false information or discloses information with reckless disregard for the truth or falsity of the information is not protected under the act. A person may seek relief by: Filing a complaint with the division of labor standards and statistics (division) in the department of labor and employment; Bringing an action in district court, after exhausting administrative remedies; or Bringing a whistleblower action in the name of the state in district court, after exhausting administrative remedies. The division is authorized to adopt rules necessary to implement the act. $270,153 is appropriated to the department of labor and employment from the employment support fund, of which $206,193 is allocated for use by the division for enforcement of worker's rights related to a public health emergency, based on the assumption that the division will require an additional 2.5 FTE, and $63,960 is reappropriated to the department of law for legal services. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as enacted.)

Meatpacking Plants are COVID-19 Houses of Horror https://hunter-14379.medium.com/meatpacking-plants-are-covi Hunter Ogletree...Continue reading

USPS Is Again Notifying Employees That DeJoy's Reforms Are Null and Void Court issues new mandate amid renewed spikes in mail delays. https://www.govexec.com//usps-again-notifying-empl/169628/...Continue reading

AFT, AFSCME, WSNA, and UNAC/UHCP Sue Trump Admin for Shelving Standard That Would Protect America’s Healthcare Workers From Exposure to Infectious Diseases https://www.aft.org//aft-afscme-wsna-and-unacuhcp-sue-trum For Release: Thursday, October 29, 2020 Contact:...Continue reading