PG&E Increases Profits After Rate Hikes
PG&E’s profits predictably increased after they raised utility rates.
CrowdStrike Chaos
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. On July 19, cybersecurity company CrowdStrike released buggy software that caused many computers internationally that run on the Microsoft Windows operating system to crash. The outage impacted millions of computers across the world and had varying […]
“On Call” Doesn’t Mean at Management’s Beck and Call
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Kaiser expects a lot from its on call workers – but the obligation seems to only go one way. The most recent SEIU-UHW contract, for example, allows managers to require on calls give up to 10 […]
California’s Gavin Newsom Declares War On Poor People
On Thursday, California Governor Gavin Newsom passed an executive order that would call on state officials to begin dismantling houseless encampments. The displacement of unhoused people is nothing new and the eviction of encampments from public parks and under freeways and bridges happens all of the time. But this new attack is made possible by […]
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. The way this contract has been presented, some workers feel like there are no good choices. They are caught between a rock and a hard place. A 2% increase every six months […]