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And then, when a city or state enacted unfavorable regulations, the companies would threaten to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes the companies would leave for a few months, but they always came back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angry customers, meanwhile, put pressure on politicians who often caved and dropped regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garden said the victories Uber and Lyft enjoyed early on dissuaded other local regulators from trying to rein in the companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11833891\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11833891\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-1170572546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-1170572546.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-1170572546-800x534.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-1170572546-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/GettyImages-1170572546-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco police officer monitors a protest outside of Uber headquarters on Aug. 27, 2019 in San Francisco, where dozens of Uber and Lyft drivers staged a protest in support of AB 5, and to organize a union for ride-hail drivers. \u003ccite>(ustin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They knew regulation would be met with the companies ignoring the regulations and then fighting tooth and nail,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft grew rapidly over the next five years and, by 2018, had amassed a combined $20 billion in venture capital. Meanwhile, a spate of new companies like Postmates and Instacart began adopting similar contract-labor models.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>The ‘ABC Test’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In 2018, drivers seeking employee status scored a major victory — ironically, as a result of a California Supreme Court case that had nothing to do with gig companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This case began in 2005, three years before smartphones even existed, and close to a decade before the dawn of the gig economy. A truck driver sued a delivery company called Dynamex for classifying him as a contractor and not paying employee benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2018 — 13 years after the case started — the court ruled in favor of the driver. The ruling established an “ABC test” for employment, in which workers can only be considered contractors if they:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>a. are free of control and direction from the company;\u003cbr>\nb. perform work outside the normal course of the company’s business;\u003cbr>\nc. regularly engage in some kind of independently established trade or occupation\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, in the absence of any enforcement, Uber and Lyft continued to classify their drivers as contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following year, the state Legislature took up the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 5, introduced by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, went into effect Jan. 1, 2020, codifying the Dynamex decision into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In advocating for the bill, Gonzalez specifically called out gig companies like Uber and Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In letting a new industry come in and say, ‘Because I hire you through an app, I don’t have any rules’ — that jeopardizes everything,” Gonzalez told lawmakers as they debated the bill in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Uber and Lyft have since still continued to classify drivers as contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to AB 5, Uber, Lyft and the delivery company DoorDash put more than $110 million behind Proposition 22 — on the statewide ballot this November — which would exempt gig companies from the new legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>And Then Came the Pandemic ...\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March, the coronavirus pandemic delivered a nightmare scenario for drivers who saw a precipitous drop in customers and weren't eligible for the paid sick time and unemployment benefits afforded regular employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the pandemic raged on, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in May finally stepped in, announcing a lawsuit against the companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra admitted that it had taken the coronavirus for the state to act on the issue of worker misclassification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes it takes a pandemic to shake us into what that really means and who suffers the consequences of it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra\"]'Sometimes it takes a pandemic to shake us into what that really means and who suffers the consequences of it.'[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nAnd on Aug. 10, Judge Schulman issued his preliminary order to make Uber and Lyft classify their workers as employees while the state lawsuit unfolds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft went on the offensive. 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"content": "\u003cp>A California judge has ordered Uber and Lyft to reclassify their workers from independent contractors to employees with benefits, a ruling that could be consequential for gig economy workers if it survives the appeals process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman \u003ca href=\"https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7032764/Judge-Ethan-Schulman-Order-on-Lyft-and-Uber.pdf\">ruled Monday\u003c/a> that Lyft and Uber's thousands of contract drivers should be given the same protections and benefits under labor law as other full-time employees of the ride-hailing companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schulman said Lyft and Uber use \"circular reasoning\" by only treating tech workers, not drivers, as employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Were this reasoning to be accepted, the rapidly expanding majority of industries that rely heavily on technology could with impunity deprive legions of workers of the basic protections afforded to employees by state labor and employment laws,\" Schulman wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said Uber and Lyft have refused to comply with \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/01/04/793142903/as-california-tries-to-make-contract-workers-employees-industries-push-back\">a California law\u003c/a> passed last year that was supposed to make it harder for companies in the state to hire workers as contractors, so gig economy workers such as drivers for the ride-hailing companies would receive health insurance, workers' compensation and paid sick and family leave. As independent contractors, Uber and Lyft drivers are not provided these benefits. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It bears emphasis that these harms are not mere abstractions; they represent real harms to real working people,\" Schulman wrote. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra called the judge's preliminary order a victory for drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court has weighed in and agreed: Uber and Lyft need to put a stop to unlawful misclassification of their drivers while our litigation continues,\" Becerra said in a statement. \"Our state and workers shouldn't have to foot the bill when big businesses try to skip out on their responsibilities. We're going to keep working to make sure Uber and Lyft play by the rules.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge's order does not take effect for 10 days. Both Uber and Lyft said they plan to appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The vast majority of drivers want to work independently, and we've already made significant changes to our app to ensure that remains the case under California law,\" Uber spokesman Matt Kallman said. \"When over 3 million Californians are without a job, our elected leaders should be focused on creating work, not trying to shut down an entire industry during an economic depression.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Lyft said: \"Drivers do not want to be employees, full stop. We'll immediately appeal this ruling and continue to fight for their independence. Ultimately, we believe this issue will be decided by California voters and that they will side with drivers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the new state law, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/09/18/762108954/california-governor-signs-law-protecting-gig-economy-workers\">known as AB 5\u003c/a>, was passed, Becerra and city officials in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/05/05/850969759/california-sues-uber-and-lyft-for-cheating-drivers-and-taxpayers\">sued\u003c/a> Uber and Lyft to force the companies to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday's order comes ahead of a trial in that case. But Schulman said there was an \"overwhelming likelihood\" that the state of California would win the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft have asked the court to delay the order until after November when California voters will be asked whether to keep drivers as independent contractors, but Schulman rejected this request.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Defendants are not entitled to an indefinite postponement of their day of reckoning,\" the judge wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='uber,lyft']Uber and Lyft, which already have trouble turning a profit, have argued that converting drivers to full-time employees would force the companies to lay off drivers and result in higher prices for passengers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ride-hailing companies have suffered mightily during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its earnings call with investors this month, Uber said its core business of picking and dropping people off has fallen nearly 75%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber is now making more money delivering food than it is from ride-hailing. 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What they should do is point the fingers at themselves as well, because racial justice is economic justice. Those things are linked together,” Murphy said. “The same conditions that exploit and harm and cause the killing of Black and brown lives are the same conditions that exploit and harm black and brown folks who want to earn a livable wage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829888\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44014_017_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44014_017_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44014_017_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44014_017_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44014_017_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44014_017_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bonnie Alexander (left) and Jacob Klein hold signs saying that the McDonald’s is closed during a ‘Strike for Black Lives’ rally at a McDonalds on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland on July 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest issues at the protest was how corporations use stock buybacks and dividends to enrich shareholders. McDonald’s in particular has been criticised for paying dividends to shareholders during the pandemic. In just the last 5 years, the company has spent over 40 billion in stock buybacks and dividends to enrich shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11829892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11829892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44019_022_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44019_022_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44019_022_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44019_022_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44019_022_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/RS44019_022_KQED_Oakland_McDonaldsStrike_07202020-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators take a knee for eight minutes and 46 seconds, the time prosecutors say a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd, during a ‘Strike for Black Lives’ rally outside of a McDonalds on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland on July 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SEIU president Mary Kay Henry was at the rally. 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"content": "\u003cp>Philz Coffee is laying off roughly 180 employees across the country due to the COVID-19 pandemic, management of the cafe chain announced to staff Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The severity and duration of the pandemic has been worse than Philz reasonably anticipated, and the company now must proceed with layoffs it hoped to originally avoid,\" the company wrote in a mass email to laid off workers. The company said it had roughly 800 employees before the layoffs, which are scheduled for the week of July 15, in its cafes located in San Francisco, Southern California, Chicago, Washington D.C. and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lost jobs come on the heels of weeks of turmoil for the Bay Area-based coffee chain, with more than 100 employees organizing to protest Philz' handling of worker safety during the pandemic and skewering its reaction to the Black Lives Matter movement. Staff posted anti-Philz leaflets across downtown San Francisco and circulated that messaging on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke to roughly a dozen employees, some of whom were laid off, and some of whom still work for the company and spoke under condition of anonymity, who described the brewing backlash against Philz and its CEO, Jacob Jaber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, staff pushed back against Philz offering discounts on its coffee to police officers, a practice the chain has offered to all first responders since before 2010, at least, which especially galled them considering Philz supportive Black Lives Matter messaging on social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philz will no longer offer discounts to the police or any group, save for its own employees, starting in August, the company confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barista Maiya McQueen worked at the Folsom and Beale Street Philz until she was laid off, Friday. She is Black and felt her words were not respected by management at a time when Black voices, in particular, should be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've been super vocal about holding the company accountable for being anti-Black since their first statement about Black Lives Matter went up, and have been in multiple meetings with leadership where I was blatantly disrespected (and) disregarded,\" McQueen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ReiBioco/status/1280586415932231690\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff also skewered the company for choosing to keep its locations open after employees tested positive for COVID-19 in San Francisco and locations in other cities, among other safety practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacob Jaber, Philz' CEO and son of the coffee chain's founder, Phil Jaber, said this was a difficult time for his company, but that he is trying his best to listen to his employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding the broad concerns raised by his staff, Jaber said, \"This is an opportunity for us to strengthen our culture, we’ve been actively working on that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>COVID-19 and coffee\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Lauren Hartz started work at Philz Coffee in Santa Monica in early 2019, and was laid off Friday. At first, she was impressed with the company's commitment to strict safety guidelines when her location reopened in April, after shelter-in-place restrictions began to loosen up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We wore gloves at all times, and were provided paper masks by the company once masks were mandated in Los Angeles County,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the end of May, the company's practices changed. Citing advice from One Medical, Philz management told its employees it was now safe to work more closely together at work stations as long as employees washed their hands, wore gloves and wore face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hartz said Philz told employees “that the store practices were incredibly safe, but we kept seeing evidence to the contrary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In particular, Hartz said her fellow Philz staffers in Southern California were scared to learn some of their colleagues in San Francisco tested positive for COVID-19. Philz staffers like Rowan Allen helped spread the word to baristas across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen worked at the Ocean Avenue Philz Coffee near City College of San Francisco, and was also laid off Friday. Allen verified that staffers communicated about the positive cases with screenshots of messages from other baristas over the last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/PhilzCoffee/status/1270462468502872068\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Philz tried to keep too many people working to be safe, Allen claims, which did not allow for workers to maintain an appropriate distance from one another. Allen says the chain also \"forced\" employees to accept cash for in-person orders, despite publicly saying they would only accept mobile phone orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Philz has tried to maintain maximum productivity while sacrificing safety,\" Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaber declined to verify to KQED whether or not baristas at San Francisco Philz Coffee locations contracted COVID-19, citing health privacy laws, but did say the company informs baristas when a particular location with a case is confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also pushed back on claims that his coffee shops were unsafe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaber also said an \"ample supply\" of personal protective equipment is provided to staff at all locations. Employees are granted three weeks of pay if they have COVID-19 or are impacted by it, he said, \"so people don't feel pressured to come to work if they're not feeling well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His cafes are then closed for a \"deep cleaning\" and are reopened with staff from other stores when a COVID-19 case is reported there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We take safety extremely seriously and always err on the side of caution,\" Jaber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No coffee for cops\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In a Facebook post made by Philz coffee ten years ago, the company wrote \"Are you a Fireman? Paramedic? Police Officer? If so, you can start enjoying a 20% discount on your cup of Philz! This is our way of saying thank you! Cheers!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most recent social media references to offering police officers discounted coffee have been scrubbed from Philz accounts, however. Now that it is ending, Philz current and former baristas are critical of Jaber for ending all discounts, instead of those just for police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 Philz employees across the United States organized on social media to demand change not only for the company's COVID-19 practices but for its long-standing discount for police officers and other first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828640\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11828640 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/20200711_194333.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A protest sign in downtown San Francisco critiques Philz Coffee for its Black Lives Matter stances and COVID-19 safety practices. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Philz Coffee employees in Costa Mesa and San Francisco were fired July 2 and July 3 after expressing their views against police brutality and murder of Black folk,\" one of the baristas' posters claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McQueen, the San Francisco barista who demanded change from Philz Coffee before she was laid off Friday, was repeatedly rebuffed by Jaber in emails she shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he said in those emails that he wanted to spend time listening to all of his baristas before taking further action on Black Lives Matter, McQueen pushed him to finally end the police discount and to make donations to Black Lives Matter organizations, hire Black people into leadership positions and institute implicit bias training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By June 10, Jaber said they would create an \"equality and inclusion committee\" within Philz, and later announced the end of all discounts to first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McQueen said she felt \"every interaction I had with him felt like a reminder that he didn't care about my life,\" and that his words to support Black Lives Matter feel performative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaber said \"I don't agree with those opinions, but I respect them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One month later, McQueen was laid off, along with many of the Philz staffers who critiqued the company's policies. 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He said the officer shrugged and told him the property belonged to 121 inmates who had transferred there at the end of May from the California Institution for Men in Chino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-five of those men subsequently tested positive for the virus, and were believed to be the source of what’s become the largest COVID-19 outbreak in a California prison, infecting more than 1,600 men incarcerated at San Quentin and killing seven.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Larry Williams, COVID-19 survivor incarcerated at San Quentin\"]‘They need to provide a better facility that they can keep COVID-free, because right now, I’m one of the lucky ones.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most inmates at the prison in Marin County are being restricted to dorms or cells to prevent further spread of the virus, some routinely left those cells to provide essential work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorm porters like Williams clean group living spaces, including inmate’s toilets and showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most prison jobs pay between $.09 to $1.40 an hour, but Williams said he was not financially compensated for his work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our pay was being able to come out [of our cells], stay out a little extra, being able to use the phone,” he said. “We moved the boxes because we were afraid of losing our privileges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11828235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11828235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Larry-Williams-caught-Covid-19-at-SQ.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Williams, who is incarcerated at San Quentin and has underlying health conditions that put him at risk of dying from COVID-19, tested positive for the virus after a correctional officer asked him to help move hundreds of boxes that had belonged to infected inmates transferred from Chino.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1767\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Larry-Williams-caught-Covid-19-at-SQ.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Larry-Williams-caught-Covid-19-at-SQ-800x736.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Larry-Williams-caught-Covid-19-at-SQ-1020x939.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Larry-Williams-caught-Covid-19-at-SQ-160x147.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/07/Larry-Williams-caught-Covid-19-at-SQ-1536x1414.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Williams, who is incarcerated at San Quentin and has underlying health conditions that put him at risk of dying from COVID-19, tested positive for the virus after a correctional officer asked him to help move hundreds of boxes that had belonged to infected inmates transferred from Chino. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Larry Williams)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Dana Simas responded to the allegations in a July 8 email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our top priority is the health and safety of all those who live and work in our state prisons, including the incarcerated population that fulfill critical work assignments,” Simas wrote. “We are taking every precaution possible to protect the critical worker population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those precautions include providing surgical masks during critical workers’ shifts, personal protective equipment if warranted and training on infection control, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an essential worker at San Quentin who cleaned the rooms of COVID-19 patients recently told a filmmaker such protections were not in place for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The worker] told me that his initial COVID training didn’t require them to use masks when they were cleaning areas where people who had been infected had been,” said Adamu Chan on a phone call from San Quentin last week. “Some of his coworkers had become infected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who makes films about life at the prison through the nonprofit program \u003ca href=\"https://restorecal.org/firstwatch/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Watch\u003c/a>, recently interviewed a member of a team that cleaned COVID-19 treatment rooms. 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"content": "\u003cp>From caring for COVID-19 patients to disinfecting hospital rooms to counseling victims of domestic abuse, medical workers are on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they work to help patients across the Bay Area, they’re also trying to juggle their own health and safety — and that of their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four medical workers share their stories here — stories of dedication, bravery, teamwork and an ability to adapt to the constantly changing demands of life under COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/003_KQED_Oakland_MedicalWorkers_ShelekaCarter_04192020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Sheleka Carter responds to cases in the emergency room at Highland Hospital that involve domestic violence, sexual assault, or human trafficking.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/003_KQED_Oakland_MedicalWorkers_ShelekaCarter_04192020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/003_KQED_Oakland_MedicalWorkers_ShelekaCarter_04192020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/003_KQED_Oakland_MedicalWorkers_ShelekaCarter_04192020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/003_KQED_Oakland_MedicalWorkers_ShelekaCarter_04192020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheleka Carter responds to cases in the emergency room at Highland Hospital that involve domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Sheleka Carter, Highland Hospital\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sheleka Carter is a domestic violence advocate at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where she responds to cases in the emergency room that involve domestic violence, sexual assault or human trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current public health crisis, Carter said she’s seen a rise in domestic violence cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has been a spike in a lot of domestic violence cases that I’m noticing,” she said. “A lot of women are coming in, specifically women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a typical day, she can spend up to six hours at the bedside of a patient in the emergency department. While many organizations have transitioned to virtual advocacy, she and her team continue in-person visits despite concerns for their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter said she tries to build a relationship with her patients, make them laugh and get their mind off of what’s happened to them. Wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of COVID-19 has made it more difficult to build rapport with patients who have just experienced trauma, Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your face shows your emotions, your expressions,” she said. “We have to wear masks. And so it changes the dynamic of the interaction and the intimacy and the compassion of the job as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But concern can go both ways, Carter said, recalling one woman who was referred to her recently because of a domestic violence situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She was laying in the bed, and I was talking to her, and I had the mask on, and the masks when you wear them … it makes you feel really hot. So I started sweating,” Carter recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She could see the worry on the face of her patient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, she had just gone through her worst day and she was looking at me with concern,” Carter said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter continues to advocate not only for her patients but for her fellow health workers, taking on leadership roles within her union, Service Employees International Union Local 1021. During this time of increased challenges, “everybody’s sort of in their trauma response, and I think I’m fighting right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813364\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_MedicalWorkers_ShaneWard_04192020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Shane Ward is a medical-surgical nurse at Seton Medical Center in Daly City. Her department has transitioned to becoming strictly a COVID-19 unit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_MedicalWorkers_ShaneWard_04192020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_MedicalWorkers_ShaneWard_04192020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_MedicalWorkers_ShaneWard_04192020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/007_KQED_DalyCity_MedicalWorkers_ShaneWard_04192020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shane Ward is a medical-surgical nurse at Seton Medical Center in Daly City. Her department has transitioned to becoming strictly a COVID-19 unit. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Shane Ward, Seton Medical Center\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Shane Ward is a medical-surgical nurse at Seton Medical Center in Daly City, where she’s often treating patients in critical condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the state leased more than half of the beds at Seton to treat people with COVID-19, Ward’s department transitioned to caring solely for those patients, many of whom need constant monitoring and care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Shane Ward, medical-surgical nurse, Seton Medical Center\"]“It’s just a lot of high stress waiting for the surge that you think is going to hit you any second. Then it doesn’t. And they’re like, oh, no, no, it’s coming. It’s coming the next day.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s tough. I mean, I’m gonna go to work, I’m gonna do my job, we’re gonna take care of the patients. We’re all trained to do that,” Ward said. “We’ve been doing it for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ward said she continuously worries about a potential surge in coronavirus cases and whether there’s enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for hospital staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a lot of high stress waiting for the surge that you think is going to hit you any second,” she said. “Then it doesn’t. And they’re like, oh, no, no, it’s coming. It’s coming the next day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early April, nurses at Seton had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810376/nurses-at-daly-city-coronavirus-hospital-sound-alarm-over-shortage-of-n95-masks-medical-supplies\">rallied\u003c/a> to protest what they said was insufficient supplies of protective masks and gowns at the hospital. Ward said she’s dedicated to her work, but to do it well, needs to stay safe herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people like me are considered technically a vulnerable population, or immunocompromised,” Ward said. “You can’t go into something … if it’s going to endanger yourself. Once you assess that it is [safe], then you go in and do everything that you possibly can to help save that life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From doctors and nurses to lab technicians and respiratory therapists, staff at the hospital have pulled together, Ward said. For example, if someone’s gown has come open, someone else will stop and help secure it, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody’s worried, everybody’s stressed. We’re just doing the best we can to look out for each other,” Ward said. “We always work as a team, but this has really, really brought us together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11819577\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11819577\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/027_KQED_MedicalWorker_DerrickBoutte_05162020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Derrick Boutte is an environmental services worker at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he often cleans up to 15 hospital rooms a day.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/027_KQED_MedicalWorker_DerrickBoutte_05162020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/027_KQED_MedicalWorker_DerrickBoutte_05162020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/027_KQED_MedicalWorker_DerrickBoutte_05162020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/027_KQED_MedicalWorker_DerrickBoutte_05162020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrick Boutte is an environmental services worker at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he often cleans up to 15 hospital rooms a day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Derrick Boutte, Highland Hospital\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Derrick Boutte has worked for 21 years in environmental services at Highland Hospital, where he’s responsible for cleaning and sanitizing hospital rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past weeks and months, he and his team have been trying to properly sanitize for COVID-19, even though, he says, there’s been scant guidance on how best to battle the virus. Doctors and nurses are passing along information as they receive it, but much remains unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boutte often cleans up to 15 rooms a day, taking 35 to 45 minutes each, depending on the type of risk factors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Derrick Boutte, environmental services worker, Highland Hospital\"]“Knowing that you could potentially infect family members that you love and care about is, you know, it’s a dreadful thought every day.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his team are concerned, as many people are, about having the correct types of cleaning supplies and proper personal protective equipment for their job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Us as employees, we’re just trying to understand how we’re supposed to be prepped and prepared to actually do a job that eliminates infections being caused by the coronavirus,” Boutte said. “Just knowing that any mistake you possibly do make, it can be vital. … We want to always be for sure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he and many of his colleagues still show up to work, even if they are worried or scared. Boutte said of his colleagues, “They’re so dedicated to doing their jobs and needing to provide for their families that they’re putting their selves out there on the front line to make sure that we’re protecting this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every day when Boutte returns home from work, he sheds all of his clothes in the backyard and immediately showers, he said. He worries the most about his family, he said — for now, his daughters, who are home from college, are staying with their grandmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boutte said that if his daughters were living with him, he would most likely be sleeping in his car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Knowing that my daughters were at home, I wouldn’t even come home,” he said. “Knowing that you could potentially infect family members that you love and care about is, you know, it’s a dreadful thought every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11814088\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11814088\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/004_KQED_PaloAlto_CarolynBenson_04222020-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Carolyn Benson is a nurse educator at Sutter Health's Palo Alto Medical Foundation, where she works closely with patients before, during, and after a major surgery.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/004_KQED_PaloAlto_CarolynBenson_04222020-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/004_KQED_PaloAlto_CarolynBenson_04222020-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/004_KQED_PaloAlto_CarolynBenson_04222020-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/004_KQED_PaloAlto_CarolynBenson_04222020.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carolyn Benson is a nurse educator at Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation, where she works closely with patients before, during, and after a major surgery. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Carolyn Benson, Palo Alto Medical Foundation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Carolyn Benson is a registered nurse with Sutter Health’s Palo Alto Medical Foundation. She is currently a nurse educator who works closely with patients to prepare them for every step of the surgery process — for her department, chest surgeries of the heart or lung or for cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spends hours talking with patients, getting to know them, their family and their friends, she said. Often for a serious operation, patients want their loved ones involved in the process, she said. But because of the coronavirus, many typical in-person visits have been shifted to video chats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of surgeries has also declined during COVID-19, Benson said, primarily because of patient concerns about being exposed to the virus in the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of people put their surgeries on hold. Some were super elective, some had cancer,” she said. “They asked the surgeon, ‘Can I wait? I really don’t want to go in. I don’t want to go near a hospital.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a cancer survivor herself, Benson said she feels for these patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew how I felt going into my operation with my diagnosis of cancer,” she said. “I wanted to go in as quick as possible to get it out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some patients were told that their surgeries could not wait, Benson said. When those patients asked whether they would be safe at the hospital or how many cases of COVID-19 were at the hospital, she could only reassure them that staff had put in place all necessary protocols to keep patients safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, Benson said that her team was able to shift back to in-person post-operative visits, an important development because, “for heart patients, you almost have to look at them. You have to see the color of their skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to look in their eyes,” she added. “Eyes change after heart surgery. 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The suit aims to force the two companies to recognize their workers as employees under the authority of Assembly Bill 5, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773833/california-legislature-passes-ab-5-but-uber-says-it-might-refuse-to-follow-it\">a state law\u003c/a> that went into effect this year that significantly limits which workers can be classified as contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra\"]‘Sometimes it takes a pandemic to shake us into realizing what [worker classification] really means and who suffers the consequences of it.’[/pullquote]In announcing the lawsuit, Becerra outlined its three goals: to stop misclassifying workers, assign penalties and seek restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The litigation, he said, is based on the premise of “unfair competition” — which asserts that Uber and Lyft have an advantage over other businesses that are following the law and providing their workers with employee protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the effort is successful, the two companies could be forced to pay a penalty of as much as $2,500 per driver, which would amount to billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies are willing to take these workers’ labor as drivers,” Becerra said at a press conference Tuesday. “But they don’t want to accept the worker protections that should go with that work, as these employees should get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to KQED, Lyft said, “We are looking forward to working with the Attorney General and mayors across the state to bring all the benefits of California’s innovation economy to as many workers as possible.” Uber said it would contest the suit in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of protections for Uber and Lyft drivers has come to a head in the current pandemic. Stay-at-home orders have left hundreds of thousands of ride-hail drivers in California with little to no work, forcing them to apply for unemployment benefits. But because of their status as contractors, they have never paid into the state’s unemployment fund. And that means \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812496/uber-and-lyft-arent-paying-for-drivers-unemployment-you-are-confirms-newsom\" rel=\"noopener\">the state is currently covering the cost\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the lawsuit has been in the works for months, but admits that the pandemic sped up the process. 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But he said he’s also concerned it will get snared in the court system and drag on at a time when so many drivers desperately need protections and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uber and Lyft have a giant army of attorneys,” Aloudi said. “I worry this could last for months or years. … Maybe I won’t see AB 5 in my lifetime. But I hope my kids at least do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra and city attorneys said they were more hopeful about a speedy resolution. 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We are here to assure that no company gets an unfair advantage, particularly at the expense of the workers they employ and the taxpayers on whom all of us rely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera said he hoped the lawsuit would help curb a disturbing trend in businesses, particularly those in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully we are going to bring an end … to the mindset that has developed over the last 10 years or so that you don’t have to ask permission, you just need to ask for forgiveness,” Herrera said. “Responsible business leaders know that there’s a way to conduct yourself and a way not to. Folks like us shouldn’t be forced to have to bring repetitive actions to make sure companies are adhering to the law and acting in a responsible way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you’ve ever looked at San Francisco’s skyline, you’ve probably seen the Marriott Marquis, a luxury hotel located downtown. And if you’ve been inside one of the 1,362 rooms or 138 suites on the building’s 39 floors, you’ve probably encountered something that has been cleaned by Larrilou Carumba.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carumba has worked as a housekeeper at the Marriott Marquis for eight years. She estimates that she’s changed tens of thousands of beds and folded hundreds of thousands of towels. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, she has been without work now for a month and a half — and counting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of income has been hard. Carumba is a single mom with three kids. She said she's spent the last two years saving tips and taking on extra shifts to pay off $35,000 in credit card debt from a toxic relationship that she escaped. Carumba was getting close to debt free, she said, until last year, when her landlord raised the rent by $800 a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11813762 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-Carumba-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Larrilou Carumba has been a housekeeper at the Marriott Marquis for eight years, but has been out of work for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-Carumba-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-Carumba-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-Carumba-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-Carumba.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larrilou Carumba has been a housekeeper at the Marriott Marquis for eight years, but has been out of work for weeks due to the coronavirus pandemic. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Unite Here! Local 2)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Carumba couldn’t pay, so she moved her family into a room in her sister’s home. She took on more shifts, changed more beds, folded more towels and put away more money. At the end of February, she finally thought she had enough money to move out of her sister’s place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But then the coronavirus hit, and for now, she’s stuck. There are nine of them in the house, including Carumba's 88-year-old mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carumba chips in for rent and utilities, but she said the one-floor bungalow is crowded, especially now with the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t want them to feel that they are burdened because of the four of us, but usually we are just hanging in the room,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like tens of thousands of other workers that Marriott furloughed, Carumba is not getting paid by her employer. Instead, she said she’s collecting state unemployment and getting a little help from her kids’ school in the form of milk and PB&J sandwiches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her kids are sad to be stuck inside all day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell them just to pray and just let’s hope this will end soon,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11815063\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11815063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-800x525.jpeg\" alt=\"Larrilou Carrumba is sharing a house with her sister's family, where she said a total of nine people are living.\" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-800x525.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-160x105.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-1020x669.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou-1122x738.jpeg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Larrilou.jpeg 1125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larrilou Carrumba is sharing a house with her sister's family, where she said a total of nine people are living. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Larrilou Carrumba)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Corporate Philosophy Focused on Shareholder Profit\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carumba’s employer, Marriott International, and its investors have done very well in recent years. Like many major hotel chains, it has used its profits to buy back its own stocks and enrich investors with dividends. As the world’s largest hotel chain, it has sent the most money back to investors and over the last decade, funneled $16 billion into stock buybacks, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/197859/total-number-of-guestrooms-of-us-hotel-companies-worldwide/\">Statista\u003c/a> and S&P Global Marketing Intelligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1997, members of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.businessroundtable.org/\">Business Roundtable\u003c/a>, an association comprising chief executives from major corporations, signed a declaration that said the primary duty of executives was to look out for shareholders — a logic that CEOs had been following for decades. Chicago economist Milton Friedman summed it up with a famous line published in the New York Times in 1970 when he wrote, “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last summer, however, the Business Roundtable promised a shift in corporate philosophy. \u003ca href=\"https://opportunity.businessroundtable.org/ourcommitment/\">It issued a \u003c/a>pledge signed by 181 CEOs from America's largest companies,\u003ca href=\"https://opportunity.businessroundtable.org/ourcommitment/\"> \u003c/a>saying executives should be concerned not just with shareholder profits but also with workers and the local community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each of our stakeholders is essential,” the pledge said in part.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson was one of the executives who signed the pledge. Then, in February, the COVID-19 pandemic hit and put his promise to the test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dividends Flow Even During the Pandemic\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 19, Sorenson \u003ca href=\"https://marriott.gcs-web.com/events/event-details/business-update\">had a business update call with investors\u003c/a>. Because of the pandemic, Sorenson said the company would not be repurchasing shares and would stop issuing dividends to investors for the time being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorenson acknowledged that the public was not happy with the idea of companies doing things to enrich shareholders during a public health crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know there is popular sentiment which is strongly against share repurchase and to some extent a crisis like this might fuel that,” Sorenson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, toward the end of the call, Sorenson echoed again the corporate philosophy of looking after its shareholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The cash that we produce, if it is not needed to invest in our business, belongs to our shareholders,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On March 31, Marriott issued its last dividend payment for the time being. 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