Speak Out Now Online Townhall • Sat. April 4, 2020 Part 1: presentation by Garrett Brown, a workplace health and safety professional with extensive experience in the developing world. He recently retired after over 20 years as a field inspector for Cal/OSHA. Earlier...
From an Oakland Bus Driver Public transit workers are on the front lines and need to be valued as such. In fact, transit workers have always been on the front lines, the pandemic just proves the point. Transit workers have always been exposed to colds, the flu,...
From an Oakland Healthcare Worker For those of us working in healthcare, the current pandemic has put us in an impossible situation, having to choose between our safety and serving our patients. Most of us working in healthcare find a strong sense of purpose in what...
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed some of the inherent shortcomings of the capitalist economic system. The recent labeling of “essential employees” during quarantine highlights the indispensability of certain jobs performed by low-wage earners, such as restaurant and...
