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3232Frontline workers wearing PPE still at more than three times the risk of Covid-19 infection, new study finds
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]]>https://virusreports.net/frontline-workers-wearing-ppe-still-at-more-than-three-times-the-risk-of-covid-19-infection-new-study-finds/feed/056 workers at Anchorage seafood processing plant test positive for COVID-19
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https://virusreports.net/56-workers-at-anchorage-seafood-processing-plant-test-positive-for-covid-19/#respondSat, 25 Jul 2020 07:21:14 +0000https://virusreports.net/56-workers-at-anchorage-seafood-processing-plant-test-positive-for-covid-19/Anchorage The Copper River Seafoods plant on East First Avenue in Anchorage on Friday. (Anchorage Daily News photo) We're making coronavirus coverage available without a subscription as a public service. But we depend on reader support to do this work. Please consider joining others in supporting local journalism in Alaska for just $3.23 a week.…
The Copper River Seafoods plant on East First Avenue in Anchorage on Friday. (Anchorage Daily News photo)
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Fifty-six workers at the Copper River Seafoods processing plant in Anchorage have tested positive for COVID-19, the Anchorage Health Department said in a statement Friday night, marking the latest outbreak within Alaska’s seafood industry.
Nearly all of the employees at the plant, which employs 134 workers, live in the Municipality of Anchorage, the health department said. Another 30 test results have not yet been returned and 14 workers were not tested, according to the department. Testing was conducted from July 17 to 22.
The Anchorage Health Department and state Department of Health and Social Services’ Section of Epidemiology are working to conduct contact tracing. The two agencies are coordinating with Copper River Seafoods “to control this outbreak as quickly as possible and prevent further spread of the disease among co-workers, family members and the community,” the Anchorage Health Department said.
“This is a concerning situation for the people of Anchorage,” said Dr. Bruce Chandler, disease control and prevention medical officer with the city health department. “With so many workers now testing positive, it is likely that this outbreak has been in progress for some time and that transmission has already occurred among family, friends and others in the community.”
Those who tested positive were told to follow protocols for isolation established by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the city health department said. Employees with negative test results will stay in quarantine and undergo testing every three days until no more cases are identified. Health officials have instructed them and household members of those who test positive — all considered close contacts — to follow guidelines for quarantine and self-monitoring from the CDC, according to the city health department.
Copper River Seafoods closed the plant for disinfection and deep cleaning after the first case was confirmed, the health department said.
The Copper River Seafoods plant on East First Avenue in Anchorage on Friday. (Anchorage Daily News photo)
The Copper River Seafoods virus cases mark the third-largest outbreak in the state: An OBI Seafoods processing plant in Seward saw 98 cases among workers, and the factory trawler American Triumph identified 85 cases among crew after docking at Dutch Harbor. The fourth-largest outbreak involves 40 cases among workers at the Alaska Glacier Seafoods plant in Juneau.
This week, the state epidemiologist described a change in the makeup of seafood industry workers testing positive for COVID-19. Virus cases within the industry now increasingly involve local residents working at processing plants — individuals going back and forth from the community at large to closed campuses, increasing the risk of the virus spreading from one sphere to another.
Health officials continue to urge the public to wear a face covering in public, keep a distance of 6 feet from people they don’t live with, regularly wash their hands, maintain a small social bubble and avoid big gatherings.
“Anyone who feels even mildly ill is encouraged to get tested,” the city health department said. “If you test positive, please contact your own close contacts if you can, to minimize the time those people might be out in the community, potentially exposing others.”
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]]>https://virusreports.net/56-workers-at-anchorage-seafood-processing-plant-test-positive-for-covid-19/feed/0Essential Workers Hold Walkouts And Protests In National ‘Strike For Black Lives’
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https://virusreports.net/essential-workers-hold-walkouts-and-protests-in-national-strike-for-black-lives/#respondTue, 21 Jul 2020 04:21:05 +0000https://virusreports.net/essential-workers-hold-walkouts-and-protests-in-national-strike-for-black-lives/Members of the 32BJ union participate in a "Strike for Black Lives" rally in New York City, one of the many demonstrations for racial and economic justice that took place across the U.S. on Monday. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Members of the 32BJ union participate in a…
Members of the 32BJ union participate in a “Strike for Black Lives” rally in New York City, one of the many demonstrations for racial and economic justice that took place across the U.S. on Monday.
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Members of the 32BJ union participate in a “Strike for Black Lives” rally in New York City, one of the many demonstrations for racial and economic justice that took place across the U.S. on Monday.
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From Boston to San Francisco, essential workers in cities around the U.S. walked off their jobs and took to the streets Monday to demand racial and economic justice as part of a nationwide “Strike for Black Lives.”
The planned day of strikes and protests was organized by 60 different labor unions and racial and social justice organizations, from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to the Movement for Black Lives to the U.S. Youth Climate Strike Coalition.
Organizers listed four primary demands on their website: “Justice for Black communities, that elected officials use their authority to rewrite the rules so that Black people can thrive, that corporations dismantle racism, white supremacy and economic exploitation including at work and that every worker has the opportunity to join a union.”
They also encouraged workers unable to participate for the full day to take a knee, hold a moment of silence or walk off their jobs at noon local time for 8 minutes and 46 seconds in memory of George Floyd and other victims of police violence.
“Even if you can’t go on strike or join us in the streets, you can still stand up for Black lives,” they said.
According to organizers, tens of thousands of people with front-line jobs in health care, transportation, food services and other sectors staged walkouts and protests throughout the day.
In New York City, essential workers marched in the blazing sun and 100 Teamsters Local 808 building service workers took a knee in honor of Floyd. In Washington, D.C., workers holding signs spelling out “the heroes” gathered outside the Capitol in support of the HEROES Act, the proposed coronavirus relief package.
In Chicago, fast food workers marched to a local McDonald’s where multiple workers had tested positive for the virus. Fast food workers in Florida walked off the job. In Durham, N.C., crowds observed a moment of silence before breaking into chants calling for $15 an hour. They also painted “Strike For Black Lives” in block letters on the street.
In Detroit, workers at five nursing homes participated in a walkout to protest low wages and poor working conditions, exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. And in San Francisco, 1,500 janitors walked off the job.
“All over the United States, farmworkers, nurses’ aides, hotel housekeepers, Uber, delivery, truck and bus drivers, airport cabin cleaners, Amazon warehouse workers, Walmart associates, and more walked off the job to demand an end to police violence against Black people and call on companies to move beyond tweeting that Black Lives Matter and take real action to improve Black lives,” organizers said in a release.
A number of Democratic politicians joined in, expressing support in person and through written statements.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke to crowds outside Trump International Hotel in New York, where he pledged to fight for racial and economic equality and passage of the HEROES Act. Sen. Ed Markey, Rep. Joseph Kennedy III and State Rep. Liz Miranda all spoke at a demonstration outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren also tweeted statements of solidarity.
“Racial inequity touches every aspect of life — from economic justice to environmental justice,” Harris wrote. “Dismantling the very systems that lead to these injustices won’t be easy, but it is possible.”
Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union — which represents nearly 2 million members in the public sector, health care and property services — told Here & Now that essential workers were inspired by the movement for Black lives in response to Floyd’s death, and sought to unite the fights for racial and economic justice.
She said they want corporations not just to say they value Black lives, but to show it, such as by paying employees living wages and making sure essential workers have all of the protective equipment they need to safely do their jobs during a pandemic.
Henry cited reports she has heard from SEIU members, positioned on the front lines against the virus, about unsafe working conditions.
“Nursing home workers are still struggling to get personal protective equipment,” she said. “Fast food workers are being told to wear doggie diapers instead of being provided masks by their employers when infections occur.”
Many of Monday’s demonstrations took place outside of McDonald’s locations. Employees at a number of locations have accused the company of lacking proper safety precautions, and three Black employees in Florida recently filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the chain, alleging racial discrimination.
The company said in a statement it has enhanced more than 50 restaurant processes and distributed more than 100 million face masks to improve worker safety.
“We’re going on strike because McDonald’s and other fast-food companies have failed to protect us in a pandemic that has ravaged Black and brown communities across the country,” said Angely Rodriguez Lambert, an Oakland McDonald’s worker and leader in the Fight for $15 and a Union. “We’re going to keep joining together and speaking out until McDonald’s and other companies respond with actions that show they really value our lives.”
Mounting evidence shows the coronavirus pandemic is disproportionately affecting Black, Hispanic and Asian Americans.
Henry told Here & Now that the dangers posed by the public health crisis have highlighted the need for a unified fight for racial and economic change, which Monday’s widespread demonstrations represent.
“I think it’s a historic moment, a new level of intersection between our fights,” she said. “The labor movement is owning that until Black communities can thrive, none of us can thrive.”
Editor’s note: McDonald’s is among NPR’s financial supporters.
]]>https://virusreports.net/essential-workers-hold-walkouts-and-protests-in-national-strike-for-black-lives/feed/0Thousands of U.S. workers walk out in ‘Strike for Black Lives’
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https://virusreports.net/thousands-of-u-s-workers-walk-out-in-strike-for-black-lives/#respondTue, 21 Jul 2020 03:23:23 +0000https://virusreports.net/thousands-of-u-s-workers-walk-out-in-strike-for-black-lives/Tens of thousands of workers nationwide walked off the job Monday in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, hoping to draw closer scrutiny to the income inequality and systemic racism that organizers say have become more entrenched during the coronavirus pandemic.The “Strike for Black Lives,” as leaders have dubbed the campaign, featured workers from…
Tens of thousands of workers nationwide walked off the job Monday in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, hoping to draw closer scrutiny to the income inequality and systemic racism that organizers say have become more entrenched during the coronavirus pandemic.
The “Strike for Black Lives,” as leaders have dubbed the campaign, featured workers from a broad range of industries. Members of the Service Employees International Union, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, American Federation of Teachers and dozens of other labor and political groups took part.
The campaign is pressing for “an unequivocal declaration that Black Lives Matter” from business and political leaders, and urging government officials to “reimagine our economy and democracy” with civil rights in mind. Organizers also called on businesses to “dismantle racism, white supremacy, and economic exploitation” and ensure access to union organizing, according to a list of demands posted on the strike’s website.
In Washington, strikers gathered on Capitol Hill in support of the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, or Heroes Act, as talks intensify over a fourth coronavirus relief package. Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) joined demonstrators in New York outside Trump Tower. Health workers at a nursing home outside of Los Angeles planned walkouts during multiple shifts, while other workers took part in a car caravan down President Barack Obama Boulevard, a major thoroughfare on the city’s west side.
Organizers encouraged people unable to leave their jobs to take a knee or break away for 8 minutes and 46 seconds — the amount of time a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd, whose death sparked a wave of protests and national reckoning on racial justice.
Organizers did not have exact figures on how many people walked off the job, but said around 1,500 janitors in San Francisco struck together. Close to 6,000 nurses from 85 nursing homes in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut picketed outside their workplaces. Overall, demonstrations took place in 200 cities.
Protesters in some cities called out their employers’ treatment of hourly workers, many of whom are black. McDonald’s employees outside St. Louis marched for higher wages and workers in Detroit called for more workplace protections against the coronavirus, according to SIEU.
McDonald’s in a statement said it had enhanced more than 50 restaurant processes and distributed more than 100 million face masks to improve worker safety. The fast food chain also said many of its franchisees awarded raises and bonuses to workers.
“McDonald’s unequivocally supports the need for racial equality and social justice and stands with black communities across the globe where we are proud to offer employment opportunities and learn from our team members to make the McDonald’s system stronger,” the company said. “We believe black lives matter, and it is our responsibility to continue to listen and learn and push for a more equitable and inclusive society.”
AT&T call center and logistics workers in Memphis demonstrated over similar issues.
“What we’d like them to understand is if they’re going to go out and advertise that they believe black lives matter, take the steps you need to take to protect the lives of your black employees,” said Randall LaPlante, a member of the executive board of the Communications Workers of America Local 3806. “This is a company that has all the resources in the world to slow the spread of the pandemic and they are failing.”
“Everything we do meets or exceeds the CDC and local guidelines and has been a result of lots of consultation with medical community to minimize risk at our locations,” AT&T said in a statement. “Any suggestion otherwise is wrong.”
Some companies encouraged employees to join demonstrations. Airbnb said in a statement that it shared with employees suggestions on how to join the Strike for Black Lives movement, and authorized workers to take paid time off to join protests.
In New York, Antoine Andrews, a UPS driver in Long Island City and member of Teamsters Local 804, helped lead more than 100 employees in a demonstration in front of their workplace early Monday. Andrews and co-workers did not strike, but wanted to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and send a message to their employer to take issues of inequality seriously.
Andrews, who has worked for UPS for 23 years, invoked the legacy of late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), the civil rights leader who marched at Selma, Ala., and spoke at the famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in his remarks to co-workers.
“If you see something that’s not fair, not right, not just, we have a moral obligation to do something about it,” Andrews said. “I mentioned to the crowd that this is my purpose for being here and that should be our purpose for being here.”
“I left them with the question: What do you choose to do? Do you choose to stand or sit? Do you choose to be silent and complicit, or do you speak out and demand to be heard?” he added. “Let people know where you stand against systemic racism. We have to do this not just for ourselves, but for our children and for children unborn. This is our fight for them.”
]]>https://virusreports.net/thousands-of-u-s-workers-walk-out-in-strike-for-black-lives/feed/0Thousands of workers to walk off the job in Strike for Black Lives
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https://virusreports.net/thousands-of-workers-to-walk-off-the-job-in-strike-for-black-lives/#respondMon, 20 Jul 2020 22:21:23 +0000https://virusreports.net/thousands-of-workers-to-walk-off-the-job-in-strike-for-black-lives/New York (CNN Business)Thousands of essential workers were set to walk off the job Monday to demand corporations raise wages, provide health care and paid sick leave, and grant employees the right to…
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]]>https://virusreports.net/thousands-of-workers-to-walk-off-the-job-in-strike-for-black-lives/feed/0Workers vanished as coronavirus swept through L.A. Apparel. Colleagues struggled for answers
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https://virusreports.net/workers-vanished-as-coronavirus-swept-through-l-a-apparel-colleagues-struggled-for-answers/#respondSat, 18 Jul 2020 07:21:05 +0000https://virusreports.net/workers-vanished-as-coronavirus-swept-through-l-a-apparel-colleagues-struggled-for-answers/As the months passed, people began disappearing. Chairs once occupied by garment workers inside the Los Angeles Apparel factory sat empty. Rumors circulated about how the missing workers had gotten sick, or even died, of COVID-19.Mariana, a 56-year-old woman from El Salvador, felt afraid every day. She said workers like herself received little or delayed…
As the months passed, people began disappearing. Chairs once occupied by garment workers inside the Los Angeles Apparel factory sat empty. Rumors circulated about how the missing workers had gotten sick, or even died, of COVID-19.
Mariana, a 56-year-old woman from El Salvador, felt afraid every day. She said workers like herself received little or delayed information from the South L.A. company about positive cases, leaving them to try and deduce why their colleagues had left.
The company’s founder said that as the coronavirus swept through the factory, management informed employees who may have been exposed in a timely fashion. But garment workers who spoke to The Times tell a different story, saying they were largely kept in the dark as colleagues became sick, and the information they did receive was slow to arrive or vague.
One morning in June, after word spread that several employees had died, workers decided to stage an action. Dozens in one of the company’s plants stood by their stations and refused to sew for nearly two hours, demanding better sanitation.
“We got up, and we said we’re not going to work until you promise to clean the machines,” said Mariana, who agreed to be identified by her middle name for fear of retaliation. “We wanted them to practically close the factory so they would clean.”
A woman has her temperature checked before entering Los Angeles Apparel.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Coronavirus is surging in workplaces across Los Angeles County as the economy reopens. But officials say Los Angeles Apparel suffered the worst coronavirus outbreak of any business in the county, with more than 300 of the factory’s roughly 1,800 employees testing positive. Four have died.
In interviews with The Times in recent days, current and former Los Angeles Apparel workers said the company did not consistently inform them when people got sick, creating a climate of panic and uncertainty. They also said management failed to enforce social distancing and did not adequately train workers on how to stay safe. Vendors were allowed to come into the factory to sell products to workers, they said, heightening the risks.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health said it first shut down operations at Los Angeles Apparel on June 27, after inspectors found “flagrant violations” of infection-control orders and the company failed to cooperate with an investigation of a reported coronavirus outbreak. Last week, the department ordered the continued suspension of operations at the company’s South L.A. buildings until necessary improvements were made.
The state Division of Occupational Safety and Health, Cal/OSHA, opened an on-site inspection in June to investigate a complaint regarding workplace hazards at a Los Angeles Apparel facility, reported by company workers.
The story of Los Angeles Apparel — which shifted to making masks when the pandemic began — underscores growing concerns that California is not doing enough to protect essential workers, many of them in food processing and manufacturing facilities such as garment factories. Black and brown communities have been especially hard hit by COVID-19.
Latinos in L.A. County are now more than twice as likely as whites to contract the coronavirus, and officials believe many of them get sick at work. The majority of workers at Los Angeles Apparel are Spanish-speakers, county officials said.
The company’s founder, Dov Charney, has refuted assertions that the company did not protect its workers and inform them of positive cases. “There was no secrecy,” he said. Charney said workers were told “right away” and encouraged to get tested and quarantine if needed.
“I’m not saying if there was someone in one building, we told the other building, but we told the people who worked proximately to them,” he said.
Charney said the company had conducted temperature checks and maintained proper social distancing, and that higher infection rates in communities like South L.A. would naturally be reflected in a factory there. Moreover, Charney said he believed there were elevated numbers because the company has had all its workers get tested several times. (The county has said its information confirms that only a fraction of workers were tested.)
Los Angeles Apparel founder Dov Charney, 51, on the sewing floor of the factory. He has held that the company took diligent measures to protect its workers.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
“We believe that at all times — since the launch of the epidemic — we’ve been doing our best in doing social distancing and following every directive we’re aware of,” Charney told The Times last week. “We’re dealing with a massive epidemic that has risen astronomically in our community, in South L.A., and it’s manifested itself in our factory.”
Charney founded Los Angeles Apparel in 2016 after he was ousted from his former business, American Apparel, following allegations of sexual harassment and other misconduct at the company, which he has denied.
Industry experts say the COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted health and safety issues that have long plagued the garment industry in L.A., and that violations are likely much more widespread. The public health department has received at least 19 coronavirus complaints related to the industry, including three about Los Angeles Apparel. It’s currently investigating a coronavirus outbreak at another garment manufacturing facility.
Marissa Nuncio, director of the Garment Worker Center, noted that the type of “insufficient” protections against the virus at Los Angeles Apparel are “most definitely the case or worse in other L.A. garment factories,” many of which are sweatshops employing undocumented immigrants.
“Almost everyone has gotten sick,” said Beto, a 34-year-old Guatemalan garment worker at a small factory in South L.A., where he said mask use is not enforced, and employees are not provided with disinfectant. One employee he was friendly with died after showing symptoms of the virus.
Experts say the virus may spread more easily in factories than other workplaces, since they’re often crowded environments where people touch the same materials. Linda Delp, director of UCLA’s Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program, said pressure to work constantly when earning pay by the piece, as well as inadequate sick-leave policies, may also be contributing factors.
“They’re workers that are already paid low wages, so they don’t have a cushion to depend on,” she said. “Unless they can stay home when they’re sick, when they have been exposed or infected, there’s this real pressure to continue coming to work.”
Three of the coronavirus-related deaths at Los Angeles Apparel occurred in early June and one in early July, officials said.
“There were tremendous numbers of cases, we have the four deaths, and we weren’t getting a response in a timely fashion from L.A. Apparel,” said Jan King, an L.A. County public health officer for West and South Los Angeles.
The department has said a healthcare provider notified it June 19 of a potential outbreak. Health officials asked the company for a list of all employees so they could compare it to testing results the department had received. The company, they said, failed to provide the list after multiple requests. (Charney has said it took time to gather the information.)
During a site visit June 26, the department stated, inspectors observed multiple violations of infection-control protocols, including the use of cardboard as a barrier between workers. King noted that among other violations, disinfectant solution was not readily available, and management was not monitoring social distancing. Workstations, she said, were not six feet apart.
“We observed sometimes when they had employees come in, for instance, to pick up checks, there was not social distancing,” she said. “A lot of companies are putting tape or cones to mark the six feet. That was not being done. If you don’t have that, people have a tendency to bunch up.”
The company, she said, was unable to tell officials where workers had sat, making contact tracing difficult and forcing the department “to determine that everyone that was there was potentially exposed.” It also did not train workers on safety in their primary language, which for most was Spanish, she said. Charney said the company has been providing training sessions this week and that prior to doing so, it communicated to workers how to stay safe.
“We got the message of six feet distancing, the message of not coming to work if you’re ill, the fundamental message that you must wear a mask,” he said. “We communicated those issues.”
Attendees of a training session are told to alert their supervisors if they don’t feel well.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Nuncio at the Garment Worker Center said she began hearing in May from Los Angeles Apparel workers who had gotten sick from the coronavirus. They described how managers would come within six feet of workers and how the factory seemed to allow visitors in without much oversight.
“Vendors would come trying to sell things to employees,” she said. “[Workers] also said that applicants, people looking to apply for work, would come in — that they weren’t preventing that, and there wasn’t protocols in place for those people, whether they maintained social distance, whether they wore a mask.”
Workers said the company didn’t communicate cases of the virus to them, leaving them to suspect that missing employees were sick.
“They were of course concerned and worried it was because of COVID but didn’t get that confirmed,” Nuncio said. “There were rumors about workers passing away, but it wasn’t confirmed.”
Chiara, a 52-year-old woman from Peru who asked to be identified by her last name for fear of backlash, tested positive for the coronavirus after working at the factory for several weeks. When she first felt symptoms in June, it seemed to be “a simple flu.” She worked for a few more days, but after developing a painful headache and feeling faint, she stopped going in. A supervisor advised that she should get tested.
Now, she wonders if she was exposed during her breaks, since she hadn’t made sure that the people who had occupied a lunch table before her had disinfected it. She has questioned whether she should have been better about cleaning her equipment, since she shared it with someone from a different shift.
“We would have taken better care of our health,” Chiara said, had workers been trained on protecting themselves from the virus. But she plans on returning to the factory once it reopens, doubting that she’ll find another job that pays her $14.25 an hour.
“They’re changing things there,” she said. “It gives me security that I’ll be fine there. That’s what I say [now]. I don’t know what will happen.”
But Maribel Maldonado, a 50-year-old Mexican worker who also tested positive for the virus, won’t be coming back.
Maldonado said there wasn’t adequate social distancing when she began working in April as a trimmer at Los Angeles Apparel. She would sit at a makeshift cardboard table with about half a meter separating her from others, causing her to ask if she could distance herself more.
In early May, she said, she worked in an area that lacked ventilation. She sat at a long table where workers tried to maintain distance. At one point, she said, the company added more tables because people were sitting too close together.
She tested positive for the coronavirus shortly thereafter, experiencing headaches and feeling nauseous. She’s now taking online classes to prepare for a new job providing financial services related to life insurance — work she can do without close contact with others.
“I wouldn’t return there — least of all now that I’ve just started to get better,” she said. “It’s too hot there. They aren’t careful about distancing.”
Mariana, who has worked at Los Angeles Apparel for about three years, began wearing two masks as she heard of more and more employees who had gotten sick. Before the county shut down the factory, she would get tested several times a month and would bring her own disinfectant from home.
After the June work stoppage, Charney met with workers. He told them to practice social distancing and that a few employees had tested positive, Mariana recalled.
She has noticed improvements. When Los Angeles Apparel opened briefly last week (the company said it was given permission to open, while officials called it a violation), there were “gallons of disinfectants,” she said. Workers passed around a box to raise money to support the family of a colleague who had died from the virus.
In addition to holding safety training sessions, shown, Los Angeles Apparel said it has upgraded its facilities and instituted more robust health screenings.
(Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times)
Charney said that the company has added upgrades such as touchless faucets, better ventilation, more robust screening for symptoms and improved training for cleaning staff. The company, he said, has been helping workers to get tested before reopening.
“The opportunity here is, we’re going to have the best factory,” he said. “If this thing lasts for a long time, we have the best opportunity to keep going and keep everybody safe.”
During a safety training session for workers Wednesday at the factory, 11 people sat in socially distanced rows of chairs. Hand sanitizer and gloves rested on a table nearby. A sign glued to the sanitizer said in Spanish, “Masks are required.”
Several instructors presented in English and Spanish, explaining that many Black and Latino people have died from the virus. Workers were to clean shared work spaces and notify supervisors when they didn’t feel well, they said.
“Your job will be here,” an instructor told the group in Spanish. “We’re trying to prevent more people from getting sick.”
When it was time for questions, one man raised his hand.
“Can you get the virus if you touch someone with the virus?” he asked.
A few seconds later, he had an answer from the instructor. Yes, there was a risk.
]]>https://virusreports.net/workers-vanished-as-coronavirus-swept-through-l-a-apparel-colleagues-struggled-for-answers/feed/0Workers are pushed to the brink as they continue to wait for delayed unemployment payments
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https://virusreports.net/workers-are-pushed-to-the-brink-as-they-continue-to-wait-for-delayed-unemployment-payments/#respondMon, 13 Jul 2020 16:21:44 +0000https://virusreports.net/workers-are-pushed-to-the-brink-as-they-continue-to-wait-for-delayed-unemployment-payments/The automated phone system for the state’s unemployment system takes her to a queue for a callback that has yet to come. Visits to state offices have been fruitless. While Herdez was finally able to get an appointment with someone at the unemployment agency to look at her case, it’s not until August, she said.The…
The automated phone system for the state’s unemployment system takes her to a queue for a callback that has yet to come. Visits to state offices have been fruitless. While Herdez was finally able to get an appointment with someone at the unemployment agency to look at her case, it’s not until August, she said.
The pandemic’s toll on workers who have been furloughed or laid off like Herdez is measured in numbers that splash across headlines: 1.4 million new weekly unemployment claims and 18 million people are already receiving continuous unemployment insurance. Tens of thousands of workers at Levi’s, Wells Fargo and United Airlines learned this past week they could be furloughed or laid off in coming months, sending those workers to seek jobless benefits as well.
Four months into the worst recession since the Great Depression, tens of thousands of workers like Herdez across the country have filed for jobless claims but have yet to receive payments. Many are now in dire financial straits.
“We’ve been only able to make half payments on everything,” Herdez said in an interview. “We bought a large amount of groceries and have been taking things out of the freezer, but as the weeks go by, it’s hard to figure out whether to pay bills or whether we have enough food to last the week.”
The issue has spilled back into public view in recent weeks, as thousands of frustrated workers awaiting payments have camped out, sometimes overnight, in front of unemployment offices in states like Oklahoma, Alabama and Kentucky.
The ongoing delays are the result of a confluence of crises, experts say.
A flood of new jobless applications — about 50 million — has overwhelmed state unemployment offices over the past four months. The agencies themselves are hampered by years of neglect. They rely on reduced staffs and badly outdated technology after years of budget cuts, often at the behest of business groups and Republican legislatures. Issues with fraud and user confusion over the new rules and filing process have further bogged down the process.
But cases like Herdez show what happens when workers simply run out of money and the social safety net malfunctions with defaulted payments and trips to food banks. In more desperate situations, workers become homeless.
“We’ve kind of abdicated our responsibility to the unemployed,” George Wentworth, a senior counsel at the National Employment Law Project and an expert on unemployment insurance. “There need to be more standards and those standards need to be rigorously enforced by the federal government.”
The Department of Labor does not track the percentage of unemployment benefits that have been processed, an agency spokeswoman said in an email. The agency did not offer a comment on the issue of delays in processing benefits.
But previously unreleased data compiled by Andrew Stettner, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, illustrates the scope. By the end of May, about 18.8 million out of 33 million claims — 57 percent — had been paid nationwide. That number has steadily improved from 47 percent of paid claims at the end of April and 14 percent at the end of March.
In Wisconsin, where about 13 percent of claims remained unprocessed as of July 7, residents told local reporters that they had waited 10 weeks or longer for their claims to be processed, leaving some on the brink of bankruptcy and eviction. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development said through a spokesman that the average time from application to payment is 21 days. In Pennsylvania, another 15 percent of claims were still in review as of mid-June.
Oklahoma has approved 235,000 out of about 590,000 claims, with about 2,000 still under review as of June 21, but the state also has denied a whopping 350,000 claims, said Shelley Zumwalt, the interim director of the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission. Zumwalt said a small portion of the denied claims — about 47,000 — are people who have applied for the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), a program for gig and self-employed workers who must get rejected from regular unemployment insurance before qualifying for the expanded benefit for gig workers.
Nevada has also had issues processing these gig worker jobless claims, fulfilling only 74 percent of the 106,667 eligible PUA claims by June 19.
Samuel Jarman, 25, filed for unemployment in Oklahoma in early April, after his start date at a new job to work on software for a payroll services company was pushed back indefinitely. Jarman said the issues he’s had collecting unemployment insurance were part of the reason he moved back to his parents’ house.
It took nearly eight weeks to get his first payment, a lump sum of all the benefits he was owed at that point. But last month, his claim was flagged for fraud, and his payments stopped, he said. He doesn’t know why his claim was flagged for fraud. But at one point, one of the people who helped him with his claim over the phone asked him for his full social security number — something he thought was suspicious, as workers are not supposed to do that, state officials say.
Jarman has had problems getting through to the unemployment office in recent weeks, ending up trapped in an automated phone system unable to reach anyone with answers. He said he’s frustrated by elected officials, like Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R), who he feels have not been transparent and fail to take threats raised by the pandemic seriously.
“They keep saying ‘unprecedented.’ We’re four months into this — how unprecedented is it still?” he said. “If you’re up front about it, it’s a lot better than just lying to our faces saying it’s all going smoothly.”
Other unemployed workers described similarly time-consuming attempts to navigate unemployment systems.
Kelly Johnson, 48, a restaurant manager and single mother of five in Dunedin, Fla., waited almost two months to receive her first payment after she was furloughed in March. She spent much of April calling the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity, about 400 times, she estimates. She wasn’t able to get through.
When her payment did finally arrive, it was backdated just two weeks. She said she’s given up on recovering any of her owed benefits, or filing another claim to recoup income from personal training work that also evaporated during the pandemic.
So she makes do every week with the $71 she gets from the state as well as the $600 in federal supplemental benefits.
“It’s just messed up,” she said. “It’s an overloaded system.”
One problem is that some states have made it tougher to access benefits. Florida was one of many Republican-led states that restricted unemployment benefits in the aftermath of the Great Recession. After sustained lobbying from corporations hoping to reduce unemployment taxes, the state, under then Gov. Rick Scott, limited unemployment to 12 weeks and capped weekly benefits at $275, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
By contrast, unemployed workers in Florida, and across the nation, are temporarily eligible for $600 in supplemental federal benefits every week, but that’s slated to expire at the end of the month unless Congress extends them.
A report written in 2017 by Wentworth, the unemployment expert, found those types of changes, which both limit the amount of benefits paid out and add restrictions, disqualifications or higher burdens for workers applying, had drastically reduced the number of unemployed workers collecting benefits in states around the country.
“States that have been the most restrictive in moving people off unemployment insurance — those states have had the hardest time processing claims now,” Stettner said in an interview.
The pandemic has brought a multitude of new challenges, according to state unemployment offices. Zumwalt, the newly appointed director of Oklahoma’s unemployment agency, said the state’s system relies on a mainframe computer from 1978, which has hampered the speed with which it can process large batches of claims.
“Remember the Oregon Trail? That’s what my mainframe looks like,” she said. “We have many full-time people whose job is just making sure that thing doesn’t die.”
Zumwalt said staffing at the agency had dropped to 450 from 700 since 2017, although officials are making a push to hire workers.
She also rented out space in a convention center outside of Oklahoma City for the unemployed to get help with outstanding claims, which has improved their ability to process them — from about 170 claims a day to around 500 to 600 now. Claimants are given masks and have their temperature taken before entering, she said.
Still, there is a never-ending list of knots to untangle.
Nearly 200 Vietnamese speakers showed up, unexpectedly, needing help and language assistance one day. A pregnant woman’s water broke while she was waiting in line. Others have overheated while waiting on hot summer days. Many of the complaints are complicated to untangle, like those from people like Jarman, the software troubleshooter, who have had claims flagged as fraudulent, in some instances because they’ve been impersonated, Zumwalt said.
“Every person that walks in my door is angry, and they have a right to be angry,” she said.
The state has forwarded 90,000 claims to be investigated for fraud.
Other states systems are similarly bogged down by outdated or poorly designed technology, concerns about fraud and staffing issues. In Nevada, the interim director for the state unemployment system resigned in June after facing threats from angry workers. In Washington state, 100 National Guard members have been called in to help sort through issues around fraudulent cases.
The delays in getting jobless benefits to the unemployed have led to some informal organizing — social media groups with thousands of members have cropped up on Facebook and other sites in states like Wisconsin, Nevada, Florida and Oklahoma.
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https://virusreports.net/four-residents-two-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19-at-pearl-city-nursing-home/#respondMon, 13 Jul 2020 07:21:03 +0000https://virusreports.net/four-residents-two-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19-at-pearl-city-nursing-home/Dr. Scott Miscovich of Premier Medical Group Hawaii said his team was brought in to Pearl City Nursing Home to test about 100 residents and 200 workers on Friday and Saturday. Four residents and two staff members tested positive for COVID-19. He said a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus late Thursday, who believed…
Dr. Scott Miscovich of Premier Medical Group Hawaii said his team was brought in to Pearl City Nursing Home to test about 100 residents and 200 workers on Friday and Saturday. Four residents and two staff members tested positive for COVID-19.
He said a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus late Thursday, who believed to have contracted it through a family member. According to Dr Miscovich, the employee hadn’t been at work for a while but the administration acted quickly.
“They brought all hands on deck,” Dr. Miscovich said. “We had numerous meetings. They cooperated with all the testing events that we put up, they immediately followed through all the protocols that we were recommending when it came to setting up a true isolation zone, which I helped them design, moving those residents positive into a true what we call red zone or a quarantine ward, and the staff was all trained on the infection control processes.”
The state Department of Health is doing contact tracing.
Other nursing homes and long-term care facilities have faced outbreaks including Hale Nani Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Kalakaua Gardens and Maunalani Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. While it is impossible to keep COVID-19 out, Dr. Miscovich says such places need to be prepared.
“We need each island to have a designated quarantine facility for intermediate care, skilled nursing. And more importantly, like for example here on Oahu, we have 4,000 people in nursing homes, we have 8,000 in the smaller assisted living home care where they have three people living in someone’s private home. I can’t go too far into it. But I was just made aware last night that there are another couple positives in a small home care, senior living area in the center of the island. What you should do effectively looking at the models in the mainland is we need to take those people immediately out of that facility and put them into a facility that is set and geared to how to help them.”
He also advocates for preventative testing in group living situations, but with Hawaii’s testing capacity diminished by rising cases in other states, he suggests one way resources can be stretched.
“We start doing pooling as a preventative measure in group living facilities throughout the state, where the people have a common path, a common number of people around you, can pool staff in that area too,” he said.
The idea is to combine samples from one group together in one test. If the results are negative, there’s no need to test each sample.
The important thing, Dr Miscovich says, is to test aggressively, especially when it comes to our kupuna.
Following CDC, CMS, and DOH recommendations, we will continue to conduct temperature scans and screen all employees for signs and symptoms of COVID- 19 during their work shift. We will also continue to follow recommendations concerning screening, PPE usage, hand washing and sanitizing, and proper social distancing when appropriate. Staff assigned to the red zone will enter and exit the facility through separate doors and will not interact with others in the building. We will continue to maintain these practices as long as it is recommended by the Department of Health and Premier Medical Group.”
]]>https://virusreports.net/four-residents-two-workers-test-positive-for-covid-19-at-pearl-city-nursing-home/feed/0More than 70 workers contract coronavirus at farm in Herefordshire
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]]>https://virusreports.net/more-than-70-workers-contract-coronavirus-at-farm-in-herefordshire/feed/0Tech workers are opening their wallets to beat Trump even with stock prices soaring and profits near records
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https://virusreports.net/tech-workers-are-opening-their-wallets-to-beat-trump-even-with-stock-prices-soaring-and-profits-near-records/#respondSat, 04 Jul 2020 23:21:39 +0000https://virusreports.net/tech-workers-are-opening-their-wallets-to-beat-trump-even-with-stock-prices-soaring-and-profits-near-records/US President Donald Trump (r) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak to the press during a tour of the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple's Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019.Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty ImagesTheir stock prices are near record levels. So are their profits. Their founders are…
US President Donald Trump (r) and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak to the press during a tour of the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple’s Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019.
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Their stock prices are near record levels. So are their profits. Their founders are among the wealthiest people on the planet.
But while the world’s most valuable tech companies have expanded their dominance in the 3 1/2 years of Donald Trump’s presidency, with an assist from corporate tax breaks, employees at those same companies are more adamant than ever about unseating him.
“A lot of people have been making a lot of money in Silicon Valley while watching the world fall apart,” said Misha Chellam, a former start-up founder who last year started the non-partisan Council on Technology and Society to engage tech executives on political issues. “They’ve seen their fortunes rise and seen much of the rest of the country’s fortunes fall.”
For decades, the tech industry has leaned left, particularly in the hotbeds of Silicon Valley and Seattle. Heading into this November’s contest, the partisan disparity has never been so lopsided.
Employees at the big five tech companies — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Facebook— have thus far contributed a total of almost $15 million to Democratic candidates, compared to just under $3 million to Republicans, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics‘ OpenSecrets website.
That means Democrats have received 84% of employee donations, an increase from 68% in 2016 and 79% in the 2018 mid-term elections, when the Democrats won the House back from Republicans. Campaign finance laws restrict the amount an individual can contribute in an election to $2,800, or $5,600 between the primary and general election.
The gap could narrow as the general election nears. A good chunk of tech spending to date went towards a competitive Democratic presidential primary, while Trump effectively ran unopposed. But since Joe Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee, the imbalance has actually expanded. Between the two candidates, Biden has collected more than 92% of the donated money from the top tech companies, according to OpenSecrets.
Tech workers aren’t just eyeing the White House. They’re also sinking money into tight Senate races, aiming to help Democrats pick up the four seats necessary to reclaim a majority. Amy McGrath, who’s running to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, is getting a big boost from tech money, along with Jaime Harrison, the Democrat taking on Lindsey Graham in South Carolina, and Mark Kelly, who’s running against Martha McSally in Arizona.
Travel ban and trade war
Trump’s tumultuous relationship with the tech industry dates back to his anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric and efforts to impose a Muslim travel ban shortly after he took office in 2017. That year, Trump also refused to call out white nationalism after the violent Charlottesville rally and pulled out of the Paris climate agreement. His inconsistent and often incoherent trade war with China has won him few fans in tech, which benefits from healthy trade relations with the world’s second-biggest economy.
That was all before the calendar turned to 2020, a year that started just after Trump’s impeachment in the House and brought with it wide criticism for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and nationwide protests against police violence.
But Trump’s presidency has also coincided with record business success for Big Tech.
Apple, Microsoft and Amazon (despite Trump’s vendetta against CEO Jeff Bezos) have soared past $1 trillion in market cap, with Alphabet closing just above that mark on Thursday, and Facebook in fifth place at over $600 billion. No other public U.S. company is close in value. Shares have gained between 79% (Alphabet) and 257% (Amazon) in value since Trump’s inauguration.
Tech executives lauded the Trump administration in 2018 for lowering the tax on repatriated cash, allowing them to bring hundreds of billions of dollars back from overseas, paving the way for heftier buybacks. He also reduced the corporate tax rate, giving a boost to earnings.
Regulations haven’t posed much of a problem either. Threats of regulating Big Tech have circulated since last July, when the Department of Justice said it was opening a broad antitrust review. But the loudest voices demanding that tech giants be broken up have been on the left from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
I’m just exasperated at the fact that Adobe stock hits all-time highs at the same time that the economy has been hit so hard.
Jonathan Brown
Mobile apps developer at Adobe
Not even an economic crisis has impeded tech’s growth. The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated by Covid-19, but the Nasdaq, powered by programmers working from home, is trading at an all-time high. While Apple, Amazon and Google are expected to take an earnings hit this year related to Covid-19, analysts expect them to all be back at record profits in 2021.
‘I’m just exasperated’
Silicon Valley veterans are quick to recall a tech industry that was historically liberal on social issues but conservative on fiscal matters, in favor of small government and fearful of higher taxes and more regulation. You don’t have to go far to find people who voted for Mitt Romney, John McCain and George W. Bush.
But Trump made it hard in 2016 for many mainstream Republicans to suck it up and support their party’s candidate. Clinton won by a wider margin in Seattle and across most of the Bay Area than did Obama four years earlier, and employees at the five most valuable tech companies contributed 60 times more to Clinton than to Trump.
They’ve now had almost four years to see their concerns play out.
Jonathan Brown, a mobile apps developer at Adobe who started working there in 1995, is doing great financially. The software maker’s stock price is up 34% this year and has quadrupled since Trump took office, pushing its market value past $200 billion.
But like many of his colleagues, Brown is unhappy with where the country is headed.
“I’m just exasperated at the fact that Adobe stock hits all-time highs at the same time that the economy has been hit so hard,” said Brown, who’s based in Seattle. “I feel responsible to leverage some of my wealth to move politics in the right direction.”
Brown contributed $500 to Jamaal Bowman, who just recently won his Democratic primary in New York over incumbent Congressman Eliot Engel, and $500 to Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who was first elected to congress in 2018. Brown says he’s no fan of Biden, and actually contributed to Sen. Warren in the presidential primary.
Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman poses outside a subway station on June 17, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City.
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He’s mostly focused on backing liberal Democrats in their primary elections and hasn’t yet decided what he’ll do during the general elections.
“This is the first year that I’ve really paid that much attention to political campaign giving,” Brown said, adding that he’s previously been more inclined to donate to nonprofits.
Adobe has always been a heavily pro-Democratic company, based on donations in past elections, but with four months still to go until the 2020 contest, employees have already contributed more to candidates than in any previous cycle, according to OpenSecrets.
But even some tech companies that were farther to the right on the political spectrum have swung dramatically toward the Democrats. Employees at Oracle, whose founder Larry Ellison and CEO Safra Catz are Trump supporters, have sent 67% of their cash to Democrats, up from 49% in 2016. The shift at Cisco is even more stark, with Democrats receiving 80% up from 36% four years ago.
An executive at one San Francisco financial technology company, who asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the subject matter, said the overwhelming emotion among his peers is fear.
His company and the industry as a whole count on immigration for talent and sensible trade policies for conducting business. Within his circle of tech workers, the executive said, people are concerned that the U.S. is losing its appeal and becoming a frightening place.
Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) speaks during a news conference on healthcare April 30, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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The executive has donated to Biden as well as Democratic Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama, who’s fighting to keep his seat. He also sent money to the Lincoln Project, a political action committee formed by anti-Trump Republicans to run a series of hard-hitting ads.
Margaret O’Mara, a history professor at the University of Washington, said that the tech industry is more politicized than ever. Even before 2020, employees at Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce had protested contracts their companies had with the government. There was also the role that Facebook, YouTube and Twitter played in enabling the spread of misinformation and foreign meddling in our Democratic process.
Employees have shown a willingness to jeopardize their jobs to demand transparency and accountability from their bosses. When it comes to political leaders, they’re voting with their wallets.
“This is a different historical moment,” O’Mara said. “It’s become harder to stay on the sidelines.”
Even top tech execs are getting more vocal.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins, who succeeded lifelong and vocal Republican John Chambers at the helm in 2015, joined the parade of tech executives in tweeting #BlackLivesMatter after the killing of George Floyd in late May by a police officer in Minneapolis set off a wave of nationwide protests.
Three days after Trump tweeted, “when the looting starts the shooting starts,” Robbins told his followers that Cisco was committing $5 million to groups including Equal Justice Initiative, Black Lives Matter and its own fund for fighting racism.
“Look, I think what’s happened here is that the issues that exist have just been highlighted, and I think the entire community of business leaders and society have said, ‘That’s it,'” Robbins told CNBC in a mid-June interview. without criticizing Trump directly.
Facebook’s billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, said last month in a letter to scientists who fund their philanthropic organization that they were “deeply shaken and disgusted” by Trump’s rhetoric. Zuckerberg was under pressure from donors for allowing hate speech to flourish on Facebook, an issue that’s become a major concern over the last couple weeks, with many global brands boycotting advertising on the site.
Jotaka Eaddy, founder and CEO of political consulting firm Full Circle Strategies, said CEOs are being forced into the action.
“You can’t say Black Lives Matter and I care about Black lives but then continue to allow the perpetuation of hate and violence on your platform,” said Eaddy, who splits her time between Washington, D.C., and the Bay Area. “They contradict each other.”
