Opening Doors Central Valley

Just couldn't resist taking a few vids of this guy in action. Tried to play on my computer and didn't have an app. So I had to try it on FB to see how the vids came out.

https://www.vice.com//could-the-4-day-work-week-be-the-way I’m going to stop you right here because I have a few comments from eye-witness experience. Take you back to 1991. I was fresh out of the Army with a marriage/divorce under my belt and a college degree. This was the time when the computer started entering the business office and no one would have known what you meant if you talked about the internet. There was a movie released in 1995 called The Net which was a ...thriller with Sandra Bullock. There was a movie called Enemy of the State which was released in 1998. The desk top computer was colonizing every American home after business offices had been totally invaded and taken over. I first used a 286 computer when I first started working in a business office. That was about 1991. I brought home my first Pentium computer running Windows in 1996. I tell you all this to give you some perspective on the 4-day work week. It was during this time in and about 1991 when the world was changing, all for the better. People were accustomed to using fax machines. We were on the verge of powerful labor-saving devices situated in the business office. (And let me tell you, working with a typewriter is a complete pain in the behind.) I carried around some article in a business magazine, painting the future for the next 10 years, where walls were coming down in offices and people were working in an open communal space. The idea of work-from-home or working remote was being suggested. Even those 286 computers with their limitations, running DOS, were lightyears ahead of the old business model with a room full of women on noisy clanking typewriters. And that was the time I first heard it. The legendary 4-day work week. Or from the other perspective, WEEKLY 3-day WEEKENDS. Woohoo! So, the commentators of the day play up that old 4-day work week, especially at a time when the world was changing before us. No one talked about Silicon Valley yet, but Silicon Valley was taking over the world. I say all this to make a very distinct point The situation we face now is completely reverse from the way it was thirty years ago. There was discussion of the 4-day work week when it now seemed feasible to pull it off. Now we’re coming out of the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression is happening right now, and all bets are off as to which event will ultimately be worse, then or now. We don’t need a four-day work week. We need to regain control from the corporate interests now organizing our lives for the benefit of people other than us. See more

This is from an article entitled "Reopening Isn't Reopening - It's Cutting Off Unemployment." Talks about the fact the rush to send everyone back to work isn't about protecting Americans that are going broke by not working. It's about cutting off (generous) unemployment benefits. Couple this with the fact that Trump White House has asked Employers to Rat-Out their employees who refuse to come back to work so that there benefits will be cut off. The following is OSHA 654 5(a)...1 that essentially says that "employers shall furnish ... a place of employment which [is] free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death..." This is the biggest net and is the # 1 Cited Violation for 1910/1926 and MSHAever. OSHA 654 5(a)1 The General Duty Clause. OSHA Laws & Regulations OSH Act of 1970 OSH Act of 1970 Table of Contents General Duty Clause Complete OSH Act Version (All-in-One) SEC. 5. Duties (a) Each employer (1) 29 USC 654 shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees; (2) shall comply with occupational safety and health standards promulgated under this Act. (b) Each employee shall comply with occupational safety and health standards and all rules, regulations, and orders issued pursuant to this Act which are applicable to his own actions and conduct. And ‘Recognized’ totes a lot of water.

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