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While many local unions have ended their strikes, Local 2 in San Francisco has not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marriott says\u003c/a> the workers are well-compensated and has emphasized that its hotels are still operating well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To replace workers at its San Francisco hotels, Marriott contracted with ESP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early November, several of those substitute workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Temporary-workers-at-striking-SF-Marriott-hotel-13352971.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> they were not being paid for several days’ worth of work. One of them later \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Marriott-hotel-temp-says-she-was-fired-after-13359018.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the newspaper she was fired\u003c/a> after speaking out about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, three housekeepers have filed wage theft claims with the commissioner’s office. Those claims, obtained by KQED, allege ESP did not pay workers the $17 per hour wages they were owed on multiple occasions, neglected to pay overtime and in at least one case, failed to compensate a worker for money he was owed after he quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">Striking Hotel Workers Detail Hardships During Special Board Meeting at S.F. City Hall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0504-2-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach the three workers were unsuccessful. ESP has not responded to several requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Marriott representative emphasized the hotel chain’s contractors abide by the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marriott’s vendor contracts, including its contract with Environmental Services Partners, provide that vendors must comply with federal and state employment laws,” said company spokesman Hunter Hardinge in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage theft cases are part of a pattern, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed but unsurprised to learn of yet another alleged instance of labor violations at a Marriott hotel under strike,” said Unite Here press secretary Rachel Gumpert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marriott is failing to behave as the industry leader it claims to be, and after separate allegations in multiple struck hotels, it’s clear that Marriott needs to audit its contractors and ensure that temporary workers are not being exploited,” Gumpert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage theft claims are set to be the subject of a settlement conference involving the workers, ESP and the state labor commissioner’s office on Dec. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to have both parties try to reach an agreement to resolve the wage claim,” said Paola Laverde, a spokeswoman for the Department of Industrial Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ESP is named in the claims, Marriott could also be held liable for wage violations, according to Fiester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Marriott is benefiting from the fact that Environmental Service Partners are providing these services, there’s a sense that Marriott has an obligation to ensure that these workers are being paid correctly,” Fiester said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NOTE: KQED has decided not to identify the workers who’ve filed wage theft claims in this story because of previous reports indicating they could be at risk of retaliation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several similar Unite Here strikes also took place in San Jose, Oakland and several other cities around the country. While many local unions have ended their strikes, Local 2 in San Francisco has not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marriott says\u003c/a> the workers are well-compensated and has emphasized that its hotels are still operating well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To replace workers at its San Francisco hotels, Marriott contracted with ESP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early November, several of those substitute workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Temporary-workers-at-striking-SF-Marriott-hotel-13352971.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> they were not being paid for several days’ worth of work. One of them later \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Marriott-hotel-temp-says-she-was-fired-after-13359018.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told the newspaper she was fired\u003c/a> after speaking out about the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, three housekeepers have filed wage theft claims with the commissioner’s office. Those claims, obtained by KQED, allege ESP did not pay workers the $17 per hour wages they were owed on multiple occasions, neglected to pay overtime and in at least one case, failed to compensate a worker for money he was owed after he quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">Striking Hotel Workers Detail Hardships During Special Board Meeting at S.F. City Hall\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11703249/striking-hotel-workers-vent-during-special-board-meeting-at-san-francisco-city-hall\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0504-2-1038x576.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Efforts to reach the three workers were unsuccessful. ESP has not responded to several requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Marriott representative emphasized the hotel chain’s contractors abide by the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marriott’s vendor contracts, including its contract with Environmental Services Partners, provide that vendors must comply with federal and state employment laws,” said company spokesman Hunter Hardinge in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage theft cases are part of a pattern, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are disappointed but unsurprised to learn of yet another alleged instance of labor violations at a Marriott hotel under strike,” said Unite Here press secretary Rachel Gumpert.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Marriott is failing to behave as the industry leader it claims to be, and after separate allegations in multiple struck hotels, it’s clear that Marriott needs to audit its contractors and ensure that temporary workers are not being exploited,” Gumpert said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wage theft claims are set to be the subject of a settlement conference involving the workers, ESP and the state labor commissioner’s office on Dec. 11.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is to have both parties try to reach an agreement to resolve the wage claim,” said Paola Laverde, a spokeswoman for the Department of Industrial Relations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While ESP is named in the claims, Marriott could also be held liable for wage violations, according to Fiester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Marriott is benefiting from the fact that Environmental Service Partners are providing these services, there’s a sense that Marriott has an obligation to ensure that these workers are being paid correctly,” Fiester said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>NOTE: KQED has decided not to identify the workers who’ve filed wage theft claims in this story because of previous reports indicating they could be at risk of retaliation.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n her classroom at Bret Harte Middle School in Oakland, teacher Sayuri Sakamoto sits at a desk piled with papers. It’s her precious prep period, and she’s in the middle of scheduling education plan meetings for her special ed students when she remembers something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I actually need to follow up and go give someone an extra asthma treatment, like right now,” she says, as she stuffs her phone into her fanny pack and rushes out the door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Down the hall, Sakamoto pops her head into a classroom and pulls 7th grader Jayare Fulghal-Holloway from his class. Jayare was her student last year, and she knows if he doesn’t use his inhaler multiple times each day, his chest tightens up. He follows her down the hallway. “I feel really cough-y. You get it, coffee?” says Jayare. “But seriously it's really important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today he’s been asking to go home, but Sakamoto is hoping the extra asthma treatment will keep him at school. She walks him to a small room near the front office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's Nurse Williams' room,” Jayare says. But Nurse Williams isn’t here. “She's usually at her other schools,\" Jayare explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, on average, there’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidsdata.org/topic/126/pupilsupportpersonnel-type/Table#fmt=2391&loc=2,127,347,1763,331,348,336,171,321,345,357,332,324,369,358,362,360,337,327,364,356,217,353,328,354,323,352,320,339,334,365,343,330,367,344,355,366,368,265,349,361,4,273,59,370,326,333,322,341,338,350,342,329,325,359,351,363,340,335&tf=95&ch=276,278,280,277,279,807,1136&sortColumnId=0&sortType=asc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one school nurse for every 2,500 students\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because nurse Natasha Williams divides her time between three schools, and a shortage of school nurses in the district means she has to pick up additional assignments, spreading her even thinner. When school started this year, 10 of Oakland Unified School District’s 30 \u003ca href=\"https://ousd.tedk12.com/hire/ViewJob.aspx?JobID=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nurse positions\u003c/a> weren’t filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It falls to other school staff to pick up the slack. Sakamoto does her best to keep track of when students need to take medications. She sets alarms on her phone to remind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the middle of whatever I'm doing, I stop,” she says. “If I don't then, I will forget to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies ... first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us.'\u003ccite>April Harris-Jackson, Bret Harte principal\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But those alarms go off six times per day, so things can get complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have so many alarms set close to each other I'll turn one off because I think I already did that and then, 'Oh no!' It turns out that was the alarm for someone else. Sometimes schedules get way off,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20-30 percent of their time on medical issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could do our jobs much more effectively if we know that there are people who have training in medical emergencies and in first aid and just general knowledge, who are onsite and available to us,” Harris-Jackson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school’s attendance clerk, Carmen Argueta, spends so much time tending to students’ medical needs that Jayare thought she was another school nurse until Sakamoto told him otherwise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 20 percent of students at the school receive special education services. Many of them require medical care. Harris-Jackson says she has students who regularly have seizures, others who rely on gastronomy tubes (G-tubes) and catheters, plus students with life-threatening allergies and chronic conditions that require daily medication.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nurse Williams is in charge of assessing all those students and coming up with treatment plans. She works with their doctors and trains aides and other staff, like the attendance clerk, who provide care. She also does hearing and vision tests, makes sure kids have the medications they need at school, and follows up if kids aren’t coming to class because of medical conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With so few nurses in the district these days, she spends two days each week at Bret Harte, but does daily diabetes rounds at other schools and takes on other assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg\" alt=\"About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care.\" width=\"800\" height=\"554\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11709241\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-800x554.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-160x111.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1020x707.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle-1200x831.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/BretHarteMiddle.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 20 percent of students at Bret Harte Middle School get special education services. Many of them require medical care. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancano/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just question how it’s sustainable,” Harris-Jackson says of nurses’ workload. “How are we getting our needs met here, but also how are those other schools getting their needs met?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Nurse Williams’ office, Sakamoto is doing her best to meet Jayare’s needs. After rifling around in search of the binder where Williams logs treatments, she hands Jayare his inhaler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please do it the right way,” she says, though it’s not clear she knows what that is. “One puff, then a deep breath and hold it — or I don't know if you hold it,” she says. “Just do it slowly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Sakamoto sends Jayare back to class, Nurse Williams bursts through the door. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m sorry! I’m so sorry,” she says. “I just rushed here from another school where I had a new student show up with G-tube feedings.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was due at Bret Harte more than two hours earlier, but she had to train the staff at another school to handle the feeding procedure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was supposed to see many students today here, and of all those students now I can maybe see one,” she says. “The other students will have to be rescheduled to another day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams loves her job and says it’s painful to see the workload take a toll on her relationship with students. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have students telling me all the time, ‘Miss Natasha where are you? I never see you. You never get to sit with me and talk about my medication,’” she says. “I feel like if I was here every day it would make a huge difference.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Troubling Best-Case Scenario\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Still, Bret Harte is in some ways the district’s best-case scenario. Because it serves so many high-needs students it gets more nursing attention than some schools in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 30 schools don’t have a nurse assigned to them at all. It falls to managers in the district's Health Services Department and nurses like Williams, who already have brimming caseloads, to assess students and train staff at those schools between other work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers, attendance clerks and other staff are left to manage much of students’ day-to-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in the district has school nurses turning to their union, the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oakland Education Association\u003c/a>, for help. In May the union filed a formal grievance accusing the district of violating the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandea.org/contract/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terms of their contract\u003c/a>, which sets a nurse’s maximum caseload at 1,350 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even without the extra tasks thrown her way, Natasha Williams oversees nearly 1,400 students at her three schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The effects of the shortage are really, really burned out nurses. Our turnover is incredible,” says nurse Sarah Nielsen Boyd, who oversees over 2,000 students at Oakland Tech, though there are other trained staff on site. “It's a crazy job. It's very stressful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to monitoring medical services for severely disabled students and kids with medical conditions from cancer to cystic fibrosis, Nielsen Boyd has dealt with mental health issues like panic attacks and self-harm. She’s also the school’s go-to in emergencies. And with nurses so scarce she sometimes gets pulled away to help at other schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the district did not respond to the nurses’ initial complaint, the union tried again. In late August the district rejected the grievance, saying it wasn’t filed in a timely manner, and deemed it null and void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to nurses and union officials, OUSD Director of Community Schools Student Services Andrea Bustamante wrote, “Notwithstanding denial of the grievance due to untimely filing, I find the start of the 2018-2019 school year to be a great opportunity to work collaboratively to improve working conditions for our valued OUSD nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union and district have yet to work out a solution. In the meantime, nurses have turned to other tactics. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Nurses Demand Action\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a \u003ca href=\"http://ousd.granicus.com/player/clip/1321?view_id=4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School Board meeting\u003c/a> in late September, they showed up alongside teachers to demand the district address the shortage. They provided board members with statements they said they’d collected from parents and pediatricians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to take this seriously,” Oakland Education Association treasurer Deirdre Snyder told the board. “You’re going to be sued by some parent! It’s a travesty. I have seen seizures in my room, all kinds of problems, more and more as the years go on. You cannot pretend this isn’t happening. You need to act now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District-wide, there are over 700 students with severe allergies, more than 350 students whose asthma requires regular medication, about 200 students with seizure disorders, 50 students with diabetes and nearly 30 students with sickle cell disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's a high-needs district. We take great pride in filling the medical needs for our kids,” says OUSD spokesman John Sasaki. He points out the district has a vision clinic and dental services, along with independently run general health clinics families can access at over a dozen schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sasaki says in the past five years, several school nurses have retired while others have left for other districts or taken hospital jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11707655\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11707655\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/Bret-Harte2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bret Harte principal April Harris-Jackson estimates she and her staff spend between 20 and 30 percent of their time on medical issues. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The number of full-time credentialed school nurse positions in the district has dropped over time, and so have the number of unfilled positions. Last school year, the district had 32 nurse positions, six of them unfilled. In 2015, there were about 35 positions and only three were unfilled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some nurses say the district hasn’t done enough to recruit nurses, district officials peg the unfilled positions on a shortage that stretches beyond Oakland. In fact, across the state, about ten percent of school nurse positions are unfilled, according to Sheri Coburn, president of the California School Nurses Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coburn blames the shortage in part on the fact that nurses can make more money in traditional hospital settings. School nursing also requires specialized training that takes time and money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We're doing everything we can,” Sasaki says. “We're scrambling to find more nurses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says staff is working to expand the nurse recruitment campaign and the district is working with the union to offer additional incentives, like signing bonuses, referral bonuses and stipends for experienced nurses who support and mentor newer nurses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have shown kids who have access to school nurses \u003ca href=\"http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/137/6/e20160852\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">do better than those who don’t\u003c/a> — they’re absent less, and their teachers can dedicate more time to teaching. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a minimum of one full-time school nurse at every school. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>There’s one thing 32-year-old Jodie Collins always keeps in the trunk of her car: a blanket. That’s because sometimes, in the middle of her marathon workdays, she needs to take a little nap so she can keep on going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three years, Collins has commuted nearly two hours each way from Sacramento to San Francisco on weekends to work as a mobile stylist. She gets gigs doing hair and makeup for clients through apps like Glamsquad and StyleBee. Between appointments, she drives for Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I work 18-hour days sometimes on Saturdays to make the long drive into the city worth it,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This cobbling together of gig work to make a living is a reality for a growing number of people like Collins. They're super commuters, traveling more than 90 minutes for work each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Highs are really, really high, but lows can be really low with these apps. At the end of the day, the pressure all falls on you.'\u003ccite>Jodie Collins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is an especially popular place to find these types of jobs because people who can afford to live in the city are more likely to use on-demand services. The irony is that those who perform these services often cannot afford to live in the city, so they commute from more affordable places, like Modesto, Stockton and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 18-Hour Workday\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a typical Saturday, Collins wakes up at 4:45 a.m. She arrives in San Francisco by 8 a.m. for her first gig. The day I met with her, she was doing hair for a wedding party. Collins says she typically packs in as many clients as she can to make the trip worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6 p.m. she stops styling hair and starts driving people around the city until midnight. Sometimes, she admits, the pay isn’t worth it. People have thrown up in her car, and sometimes she worries about her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drunker people get, the more issues you run into,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Collins finishes driving for Lyft, she either crashes in the city for the night or heads back to Sacramento. She often gets into bed around 2:30 a.m., nearly 24 hours after she first woke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the life she envisioned for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got really, really, really big dreams,” says Collins. “As an entrepreneur, I have big dreams for a business called Jodie’s Little Gems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the time she was a teenager, Collins dreamt of being a stylist. But with $20,000 in cosmetology debt looming over her head, Collins is just trying to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Highs are really, really high, but lows can be really low with these apps,” she says. “At the end of the day the pressure all falls on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins has gotten speeding and carpool lane violation tickets, and once her car was stolen while she was doing hair for a bridal party. What’s more, some of the apps charge her if she misses an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People like me really do need a little stability and help. Health care is expensive. Taxes are expensive,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full-time job offers a stable income and insurance, but it won’t give her the flexibility she needs to take care of one of the most important people in her life, her older brother, Jeffrey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s had over 28 brain surgeries,” Collins says. “Nine hip and femur surgeries. His cerebral palsy was so bad at some point it was just curling his legs and making them go [cross-legged].”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jeffrey\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey, who is now 40 years old, was not supposed to survive birth. When Collins' mom was pregnant with him, she developed listeriosis, an intense bacterial infection that can cause birth defects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Jodie commutes to San Francisco on weekends to work 18-hour-days so that she can be there to take care of her brother Jeffrey during the week. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-1200x787.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie commutes to San Francisco on weekends to work 18-hour days so that she can be there to take care of her brother, Jeffrey, during the week. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For most of his life, Jeffrey has been in and out of the ICU, which means for Collins, holding down a full-time job is nearly impossible. She says she’s lost many jobs because she had to abruptly leave work to help her brother or her mom, who recently had a double mastectomy. Her father is also struggling. He recently had quadruple bypass surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt a very strong obligation to him,\" says Collins, about her brother. \"It was always like he’s going to die. They prepare us for death. It made me so strong. I am not scared of much these days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey spends his life in a daybed. Collins helps change his diapers and move him to refresh the bedding. Jeffrey can’t say much, but he loves music. He has a radio on the table in front of him. He turns the dial in search of the songs he likes. When he finds one, he dances with his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins sometimes wonders where her career would be if she didn’t have so much responsibility at home. She thinks she might have been a little farther along, or at least not in so much debt — in a place where she didn’t have to rely on gigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I would have been better off in a certain sense,” Collins says. “But then again not, because I wouldn’t be the actual person with the morals and values and goals and work ethic I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Collins does wish is that she didn’t have to choose between being there for her brother and having a full-time job. As long as that’s the case, she’ll keep being an on-demand super commuter, heading to the Bay Area every weekend to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>There’s one thing 32-year-old Jodie Collins always keeps in the trunk of her car: a blanket. That’s because sometimes, in the middle of her marathon workdays, she needs to take a little nap so she can keep on going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last three years, Collins has commuted nearly two hours each way from Sacramento to San Francisco on weekends to work as a mobile stylist. She gets gigs doing hair and makeup for clients through apps like Glamsquad and StyleBee. Between appointments, she drives for Lyft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I work 18-hour days sometimes on Saturdays to make the long drive into the city worth it,\" she explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This cobbling together of gig work to make a living is a reality for a growing number of people like Collins. They're super commuters, traveling more than 90 minutes for work each day.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Highs are really, really high, but lows can be really low with these apps. At the end of the day, the pressure all falls on you.'\u003ccite>Jodie Collins\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is an especially popular place to find these types of jobs because people who can afford to live in the city are more likely to use on-demand services. The irony is that those who perform these services often cannot afford to live in the city, so they commute from more affordable places, like Modesto, Stockton and Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The 18-Hour Workday\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>On a typical Saturday, Collins wakes up at 4:45 a.m. She arrives in San Francisco by 8 a.m. for her first gig. The day I met with her, she was doing hair for a wedding party. Collins says she typically packs in as many clients as she can to make the trip worthwhile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At around 6 p.m. she stops styling hair and starts driving people around the city until midnight. Sometimes, she admits, the pay isn’t worth it. People have thrown up in her car, and sometimes she worries about her safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The drunker people get, the more issues you run into,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Collins finishes driving for Lyft, she either crashes in the city for the night or heads back to Sacramento. She often gets into bed around 2:30 a.m., nearly 24 hours after she first woke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This isn’t the life she envisioned for herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve got really, really, really big dreams,” says Collins. “As an entrepreneur, I have big dreams for a business called Jodie’s Little Gems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the time she was a teenager, Collins dreamt of being a stylist. But with $20,000 in cosmetology debt looming over her head, Collins is just trying to stay afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Highs are really, really high, but lows can be really low with these apps,” she says. “At the end of the day the pressure all falls on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins has gotten speeding and carpool lane violation tickets, and once her car was stolen while she was doing hair for a bridal party. What’s more, some of the apps charge her if she misses an appointment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People like me really do need a little stability and help. Health care is expensive. Taxes are expensive,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A full-time job offers a stable income and insurance, but it won’t give her the flexibility she needs to take care of one of the most important people in her life, her older brother, Jeffrey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s had over 28 brain surgeries,” Collins says. “Nine hip and femur surgeries. His cerebral palsy was so bad at some point it was just curling his legs and making them go [cross-legged].”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jeffrey\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey, who is now 40 years old, was not supposed to survive birth. When Collins' mom was pregnant with him, she developed listeriosis, an intense bacterial infection that can cause birth defects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11708741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-800x525.jpg\" alt=\"Jodie commutes to San Francisco on weekends to work 18-hour-days so that she can be there to take care of her brother Jeffrey during the week. \" width=\"800\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-800x525.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-160x105.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-1020x669.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey-1200x787.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/JodieAndJeffrey.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jodie commutes to San Francisco on weekends to work 18-hour days so that she can be there to take care of her brother, Jeffrey, during the week. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For most of his life, Jeffrey has been in and out of the ICU, which means for Collins, holding down a full-time job is nearly impossible. She says she’s lost many jobs because she had to abruptly leave work to help her brother or her mom, who recently had a double mastectomy. Her father is also struggling. He recently had quadruple bypass surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt a very strong obligation to him,\" says Collins, about her brother. \"It was always like he’s going to die. They prepare us for death. It made me so strong. I am not scared of much these days.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeffrey spends his life in a daybed. Collins helps change his diapers and move him to refresh the bedding. Jeffrey can’t say much, but he loves music. He has a radio on the table in front of him. He turns the dial in search of the songs he likes. When he finds one, he dances with his hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collins sometimes wonders where her career would be if she didn’t have so much responsibility at home. She thinks she might have been a little farther along, or at least not in so much debt — in a place where she didn’t have to rely on gigs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think I would have been better off in a certain sense,” Collins says. “But then again not, because I wouldn’t be the actual person with the morals and values and goals and work ethic I have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Collins does wish is that she didn’t have to choose between being there for her brother and having a full-time job. As long as that’s the case, she’ll keep being an on-demand super commuter, heading to the Bay Area every weekend to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of unionized hotel workers who have been striking at Marriott hotels in San Francisco for the last month flooded into San Francisco City Hall on Friday, revealing stories of hardships to get by in one of the most expensive regions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Unite Here Local 2, who walked off the job starting in early October, wore red shirts with the words “one job should be enough” and shared their struggles before a special Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them cried as they described how tough it’s been to get by, working several jobs on wages they consider too low, barely able to afford high rents and mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m living on a razor’s edge from one day to the next,” said Nicholas Javier, a server at the Westin St. Francis who lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julian Penrose, a bellman at the W hotel, said he has to work multiple jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11703377 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Morales (right) waits in line with other hotel workers on strike to attend a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting on Nov. 2, 2018. Morales works at the W Hotel in San Francisco and has been a Marriott employee for 19 years. \u003ccite>(J.P. Dobrin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like my wife and I can afford to have children in this city,” Penrose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One job should be enough to make ends meet. One job should be enough to have a family, provide for your family … to cover health care … to retire in dignity,” Penrose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a city where it’s in demand to have two jobs: one just to pay rent and one for survival,” said Diana Gochez, a hotel culinary worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing came a day after San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf urged Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson to “listen and work” with the union to help end the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who serve in our city’s hotels and restaurants deserve to have one job that is enough to live on,” Breed and Schaaf said in a letter to Sorenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11703378 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Marriott hotel employee is consoled after delivering a public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 2, 2018. Many longtime employees expressed frustration with their low wages and the cost of living in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(J.P. Dobrin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Marriott spokesperson said the company is reviewing the letter but would not comment on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the two mayors came two days after Sorenson rejected an invitation to attend Friday’s hearing. In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Supervisor Hillary Ronen, Sorenson criticized Unite Here, said its members were well compensated, and accused its leadership of focusing on orchestrating a nationwide job action instead of working a contract out at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hoped to reach an agreement months ago. Unfortunately, the union seemed more interested in participating in a long planned, multi-city, 23-hotel strike against Marriott than they were in engaging in any meaningful negotiations,” Sorenson said in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman expressed outrage that Sorenson refused to attend the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m incredibly disappointed, and in fact, insulted that you decided not to show up today,” Ronen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Hillary Ronen voices support for the striking Marriott workers at the beginning of a special supervisors meeting on Nov. 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(J.P. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of unionized hotel workers who have been striking at Marriott hotels in San Francisco for the last month flooded into San Francisco City Hall on Friday, revealing stories of hardships to get by in one of the most expensive regions in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of Unite Here Local 2, who walked off the job starting in early October, wore red shirts with the words “one job should be enough” and shared their struggles before a special Board of Supervisors hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them cried as they described how tough it’s been to get by, working several jobs on wages they consider too low, barely able to afford high rents and mortgages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m living on a razor’s edge from one day to the next,” said Nicholas Javier, a server at the Westin St. Francis who lives in a single-room-occupancy hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julian Penrose, a bellman at the W hotel, said he has to work multiple jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703377\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11703377 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0388.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ronald Morales (right) waits in line with other hotel workers on strike to attend a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting on Nov. 2, 2018. Morales works at the W Hotel in San Francisco and has been a Marriott employee for 19 years. \u003ccite>(J.P. Dobrin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t feel like my wife and I can afford to have children in this city,” Penrose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One job should be enough to make ends meet. One job should be enough to have a family, provide for your family … to cover health care … to retire in dignity,” Penrose said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We live in a city where it’s in demand to have two jobs: one just to pay rent and one for survival,” said Diana Gochez, a hotel culinary worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing came a day after San Francisco Mayor London Breed and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf urged Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson to “listen and work” with the union to help end the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who serve in our city’s hotels and restaurants deserve to have one job that is enough to live on,” Breed and Schaaf said in a letter to Sorenson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11703378 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0537.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Marriott hotel employee is consoled after delivering a public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting in San Francisco City Hall on Nov. 2, 2018. Many longtime employees expressed frustration with their low wages and the cost of living in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(J.P. Dobrin/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Marriott spokesperson said the company is reviewing the letter but would not comment on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message from the two mayors came two days after Sorenson rejected an invitation to attend Friday’s hearing. In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11702796/marriott-ceo-slams-hotel-workers-union-refuses-to-attend-s-f-hearing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter\u003c/a> to Supervisor Hillary Ronen, Sorenson criticized Unite Here, said its members were well compensated, and accused its leadership of focusing on orchestrating a nationwide job action instead of working a contract out at the bargaining table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We hoped to reach an agreement months ago. Unfortunately, the union seemed more interested in participating in a long planned, multi-city, 23-hotel strike against Marriott than they were in engaging in any meaningful negotiations,” Sorenson said in the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen and Supervisor Rafael Mandelman expressed outrage that Sorenson refused to attend the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m incredibly disappointed, and in fact, insulted that you decided not to show up today,” Ronen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11703379\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11703379\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/mariott-strike-city-hall-0480.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Hillary Ronen voices support for the striking Marriott workers at the beginning of a special supervisors meeting on Nov. 2, 2018. \u003ccite>(J.P. 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"content": "\u003cp>Google employees worldwide are walking off the job to protest the company's treatment of women and its handling of sexual assault cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees walked out out of Google offices at 11:10 a.m. in each time zone on Thursday. Workers have walked out in Singapore, Zurich, London, Dublin, and New York City, filling nearby streets, sidewalks and parks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And at Google's Mountain View headquarters, employees streamed out of its offices and filled plazas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We demand structural change in the name of transparency, accountability and equity,\" said Celie O'Neil-Hart, a Google employee who helped organize the protest. \"We demand an end to forced arbitration. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the aftermath of an August incident in which a worker died working in a Muni tunnel, San Francisco agencies say they do not yet have a comprehensive system in place to warn each other about contractors who have had safety problems while working on city construction projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, city officials say they’ve begun building a database in which departments can enter information about contractors — including any documented safety concerns — that other agencies will be able to access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue was raised last week in a Board of Supervisors committee meeting prompted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686567/worker-dies-after-twin-peaks-tunnel-project-construction-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Aug. 10 death\u003c/a> of Patrick Ricketts, 51, a worker with Shimmick Construction killed by a falling steel beam in Muni’s Twin Peaks Tunnel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the hearing of the board’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee, Supervisor Norman Yee asked John Thomas, a San Francisco Public Works engineer and deputy director for infrastructure, whether the department notifies other city agencies about contractors that have had safety issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this information used for future potential contracts?” Yee asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If, for instance, you see a pattern and it doesn’t really stop and they haven’t done any corrective actions, do you use that information to say ‘you know something, we can’t be giving this particular company a new contract?” Yee inquired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At this point, no, it is not used as part of the selection process,” Thomas answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11700900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg\" alt=\"Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker's death near West Portal Station.\" width=\"800\" height=\"524\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11700900\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-960x629.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-240x157.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-375x246.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee-520x341.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/NormanYee.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Norman Yee called a hearing last week in response to questions that arose after a worker’s death near West Portal Station. \u003ccite>(Sara Bloomberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When asked about Thomas’ remarks, Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon said city departments have begun a pilot project using an internal website, completed last February, where they can store reviews of construction jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, records from eight projects have been entered in the site. City officials plan to add more in the coming months as the project continues to roll out, Gordon said in emailed responses to questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said documenting city officials’ concerns is key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The issue is largely about making a fair decision that is supported by documentation of poor performance,” she said. “If a department doesn’t award a contract because of its concerns about the ability of the contractor to perform, it must backup that decision with documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gordon also pushed back against the idea that city agencies don’t have access to safety information about contractors that bid on city projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Departments may ask about safe work history on past work for the city,” Gordon said in an email. “The department may check references by asking its employees or those of other city departments,” Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee called last week’s hearing in response to questions that arose after Ricketts’ death near West Portal Station.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11686976/muni-chief-downplays-safety-concerns-in-sf-tunnel-project-after-worker-death\">Muni Chief Downplays Safety Concerns in S.F. 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He urged all departments to ask contractors to list all workplace safety incidents they’re associated with, even those still under investigation or appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Siew-Chin Yeong, SFMTA’s director of capital programs and construction, said that her agency wants to require contractors to submit annual summaries of work-related injuries when bidding on a project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Yee pointed out that on many city construction jobs, the project’s main contractor hires smaller companies to do large parts of the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we control that?” Yee asked, looking for city rules on how the agencies track the safety records of subcontractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The general contractor is fully responsible for the safety site including the safety of the sub-contractor,” Yeong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the focus of the hearing and of previous news coverage has focused on weaknesses in vetting the safety records of contractors, it should be noted that city officials in recent years have been meeting to collaborate more efficiently on what they know about construction companies, emphasized Nicholas King, a process improvement analyst for Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that you’ve heard from three departments today, and you guys are asking questions and the public’s here and the press is watching,” King said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to be clear that we’re all on the same page, and we’re all on the same team, and we’re all committed to safety.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We will remain in close communication and look forward to the mayor's support as we go forward.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, Oct. 13:\u003c/strong> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has decided to get involved in San Francisco's most extreme \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696561/marriott-hotel-workers-in-san-francisco-walk-off-the-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hotel labor dispute\u003c/a> in more than a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed says she supports the 2,300 workers who have walked off the job at seven Marriott hotels in the city and has asked their union to meet with her next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word of the mayor's involvement in the dispute comes a day after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/striking-marriott-workers-marching-sf-streets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of Unite Here members were arrested\u003c/a> during a protest outside the Marriott Marquis at 4th and Mission streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the arrested, according to the union, were Anand Singh, the head of Unite Here's San Francisco Division, Local 2, and Wei-Ling Huber, president of the union's East Bay unit, Local 2850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698425/s-f-supervisors-back-hotel-strikers-mayor-still-mum?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=kqednews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several San Francisco supervisors\u003c/a> announced support for the strikers, including Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who called for Breed to take a more active role in the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday evening, the mayor did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a longtime supporter of organized labor, I support the rights of workers to organize, collectively bargain, and advocate for better wages and benefits,\" Breed said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been in contact with Unite Here Local 2 and I have invited representatives from the union to my office next week to discuss potential paths forward,\" the mayor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-1200x773.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 4 housekeepers, kitchen workers, bartenders bellmen and others walked off the job at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown, the Marriott Marquis, the Marriott Union Square, the Palace Hotel, the St. Regis, the W and the Westin St. Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar strikes by Unite Here workers are taking place in San Jose, Oakland and several other cities around the country including San Diego, Boston and Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2 officials say the San Francisco strike is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698130/san-francisco-marriott-hotel-strike-far-from-resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not expected to end any time soon\u003c/a>. A union organizer said that since the walkouts began the two sides have not met, although there are plans to in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union says its members are fighting for livable wages, job security and \"an end to unsafe overwork,\" but has declined to offer details about its contract proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott has consistently said that it's disappointed in the union's decision to strike and that the company's hotels will remain open during the labor action. A spokesman for the hotel chain, though, has repeatedly declined to answer questions about the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union's five-year agreement with Marriott ended Aug. 15. During that contract, the median income for its hotel workers was $44,000, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkouts have struck in the belly of one of San Francisco's most profitable sectors, its tourism and hospitality industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how much pain that industry is feeling. There are some reports of customer complaints at hotels where workers are striking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hotel Council of San Francisco has declined to comment on the strike\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's travel association says it's not seeing a lot of conferences that are changing plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are aware of one organization that moved from one San Francisco hotel (on strike) to another San Francisco hotel and all ran smoothly,\" said Laurie Armstrong Gossy, a spokeswoman for San Francisco Travel, in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"No citywide groups (using multiple hotels) have canceled or failed to book due to the labor action,\" Gossy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marriott strike marks the biggest hotel labor dispute since workers were locked out of more than a dozen city hotels in 2004, part of a weeks-long conflict that at one point, involved then-Mayor Gavin Newsom briefly joining a picket line.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed says she supports the 2,300 workers who have walked off the job at seven Marriott hotels in the city and has asked their union to meet with her next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Word of the mayor's involvement in the dispute comes a day after \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/striking-marriott-workers-marching-sf-streets/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dozens of Unite Here members were arrested\u003c/a> during a protest outside the Marriott Marquis at 4th and Mission streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the arrested, according to the union, were Anand Singh, the head of Unite Here's San Francisco Division, Local 2, and Wei-Ling Huber, president of the union's East Bay unit, Local 2850.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698425/s-f-supervisors-back-hotel-strikers-mayor-still-mum?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=kqednews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">several San Francisco supervisors\u003c/a> announced support for the strikers, including Supervisor Hillary Ronen, who called for Breed to take a more active role in the conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday evening, the mayor did just that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a longtime supporter of organized labor, I support the rights of workers to organize, collectively bargain, and advocate for better wages and benefits,\" Breed said in a statement to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have been in contact with Unite Here Local 2 and I have invited representatives from the union to my office next week to discuss potential paths forward,\" the mayor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698480\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-800x515.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed.\" width=\"800\" height=\"515\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-800x515.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-1200x773.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-1180x760.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-960x618.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-240x155.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-375x241.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/Breed-520x335.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Mayor London Breed. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Oct. 4 housekeepers, kitchen workers, bartenders bellmen and others walked off the job at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown, the Marriott Marquis, the Marriott Union Square, the Palace Hotel, the St. Regis, the W and the Westin St. Francis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similar strikes by Unite Here workers are taking place in San Jose, Oakland and several other cities around the country including San Diego, Boston and Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unite Here Local 2 officials say the San Francisco strike is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698130/san-francisco-marriott-hotel-strike-far-from-resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not expected to end any time soon\u003c/a>. A union organizer said that since the walkouts began the two sides have not met, although there are plans to in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union says its members are fighting for livable wages, job security and \"an end to unsafe overwork,\" but has declined to offer details about its contract proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marriott has consistently said that it's disappointed in the union's decision to strike and that the company's hotels will remain open during the labor action. A spokesman for the hotel chain, though, has repeatedly declined to answer questions about the dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union's five-year agreement with Marriott ended Aug. 15. During that contract, the median income for its hotel workers was $44,000, according to Unite Here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walkouts have struck in the belly of one of San Francisco's most profitable sectors, its tourism and hospitality industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear how much pain that industry is feeling. 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"content": "\u003cp>Several San Francisco supervisors are voicing support for the 2,300 hotel workers whose strike against Marriott hotels in the city is now entering its second week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of Unite Here Local 2, the union representing kitchen workers, bartenders, bellmen and others at seven hotels in the city, say the strike that began Oct. 4 is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11698130/san-francisco-marriott-hotel-strike-far-from-resolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not expected to end any time soon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11696561/marriott-hotel-workers-in-san-francisco-walk-off-the-job\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walkout\u003c/a> is linked to similar labor actions against the hotel chain in other Bay Area cities and around the nation. Union leaders say they want better wages and job security, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, supervisors Hillary Ronen, Ahsha Safai and Vallie Brown endorsed the strike and advocated for the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“An incredibly profitable company like Marriott, whose CEO earns millions and millions of dollars a year, should be able to pay their workers enough so that they can work one job,” Ronen said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said she stands with the union and hopes that both sides “quickly come together to produce an equitable contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our hotel workers need to be safe at work, especially female workers,” Brown said in an email. “Tourism is keystone in the pillar of our economy — our hotels need to open, our visitors need to feel welcome, and our workers need to be able to return to work on fair terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11698170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-800x543.jpg\" alt=\"Striking hotel workers picket outside San Francisco's Palace Hotel, part of Marriott Hotels, on Oct. 6, 2018.\" width=\"800\" height=\"543\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11698170\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-1020x693.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-1200x815.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-1180x801.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-960x652.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-240x163.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-375x255.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/HotelWorkersStrike-520x353.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Striking hotel workers picket outside San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, part of Marriott Hotels, on Oct. 6, 2018. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/gedankenstuecke/\">Bastian Greshake Tzovaras\u003c/a>/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Safai said San Francisco city officials should take a larger role in the labor dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do believe the city has a vested interest in getting involved in this strike as the tourist industry and in particular the hotel industry is an integral part of our economy,” Safai said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These workers do some of the hardest and most undesirable work in our city and should be paid a living wage,” Safai said. “Our economy has grown by leaps and bounds and hotels have realized historic profit. The workers deserve to realize some of this wealth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed has yet to make a statement on the strike, despite several requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen called on Breed to voice support for the employees on the picket lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that the mayor will take leadership and stand with these workers who have incredibly reasonable demands,” Ronen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As elected leaders in San Francisco it is on us to do something about this and the least that we can do is support these workers in their righteous struggle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Marriott spokesman did not respond to questions about the supervisors’ concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past the company has reiterated that it’s disappointed that the union is striking and emphasized that its hotels will stay open throughout the labor action.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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