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The biggest banks — those most likely to cause a systemic economic issue — have healthy balance sheets and plenty of capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2007, the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression rippled across the globe after mortgage-backed securities tied to ill-advised housing loans rippled from the U.S. to Asia and Europe. The panic on Wall Street led to the collapse of the storied Lehman Brothers, founded in 1847. Because major banks had extensive exposure to one another, it led to cascading disruption throughout the global financial system, putting millions out of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943242\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943242\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-800x548.jpg\" alt='A small crowd of people is seen reflected from the window of SVBN headquarters, with the word \"SVB\" on the window in the foreground. Behind the crowd is a carpark on a grey and cloudy day.' width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-800x548.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-1020x699.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1472604869.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People line up outside the shuttered Silicon Valley Bank headquarters on March 10, 2023, in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, there has been unease in the banking sector all week, and the collapse of Silicon Valley pushed shares of almost all financial institutions lower Friday, when they’d already tumbled by double digits since Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank’s failure arrived with incredible speed, with some industry analysts on Friday suggesting it was a good company and still likely a wise investment. SVB executives were trying to raise capital early Friday and find additional investors. However, trading in the bank’s shares was halted before the opening bell due to extreme volatility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before noon Eastern Time, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation moved to shutter the bank. Notably, the FDIC did not wait until the close of business to seize the bank, as is typical in an orderly winding down of a financial institution. The FDIC could not immediately find a buyer for the bank’s assets, signaling how fast depositors had cashed out. The bank’s remaining uninsured deposits will now be locked up in receivership.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ashley Tyrner, CEO, FarmboxRx\"]‘One friend said they couldn’t make payroll today and cried when they had to inform 200 employees because of this issue.’[/pullquote]The bank had $209 billion in total assets at the time of failure, the FDIC said. It was unclear how much of its deposits were above the $250,000 insurance limit at the moment, but previous regulatory reports showed that much of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits exceeded that limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDIC said Friday that deposits below the $250,000 limit would be available Monday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley Bank still appeared stable this year, but on Thursday it announced plans to raise up to $1.75 billion to strengthen its capital position. That sent investors scurrying and shares plunging 60%. They rocketed lower again Friday before the opening of the Nasdaq, where it is traded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As its name implied, Silicon Valley Bank was a major financial conduit among the technology sector, its founders and start-ups as well as its workers. Hundreds of companies held their operating capital with the bank, and it was seen as good business sense to develop a relationship with Silicon Valley Bank if a founder wanted to find new investors or go public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We saw building a relationship with Silicon Valley Bank as a logical step, given their reach,” said Ashley Tyrner, CEO of FarmboxRx, a company that delivers food as medicine to Medicaid and Medicare recipients. While Tyrner has money in other banks and can make payroll, she said a good portion of her business’s profits are now locked up with the bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Silicon Valley’s connections to the tech sector became a liability rapidly. Technology stocks have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-amazoncom-inc-europe-software-business-b23cd72310f20ce2320a36eadc26eded\">hit hard in the past 18 months\u003c/a> after a growth surge during the pandemic and layoffs throughout the industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943252\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11943252\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A white notice is taped to the glass door of SVB headquarters.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1247999987.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A notice of Silicon Valley Bank’s closure hangs at the bank’s headquarters in Santa Clara on March 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the bank was hit hard by the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/inflation-federal-reserve-interest-rates-powell-unemployment-79b7ead4530ab381a17638a6c9df2d90\">Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation\u003c/a> and an aggressive series of interest rate hikes to cool the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Fed raises its benchmark interest rate, the value of bonds, typically a stable asset, start to fall. That is not typically a problem, as the declines lead to “unrealized losses,” or losses that are not counted against banks when calculating the capital cushion they can use should there be a downturn in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, when depositors grow anxious and begin withdrawing their money, banks sometimes have to sell those bonds before they mature to cover that exodus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is exactly what happened to Silicon Valley Bank, which had to sell $21 billion in highly liquid assets to cover the exodus of deposits. It took a $1.8 billion loss on that sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyrner said she’s spoken to several friends who are backed by venture capital. She described those friends as being “beside themselves” over the bank’s failure. Tyrner’s chief operating officer tried to withdraw her company’s funds on Thursday, but failed to do so in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One friend said they couldn’t make payroll today and cried when they had to inform 200 employees because of this issue,” Tyrner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Thousands of Bay Area tech and biotech workers have surged onto sites like LinkedIn, frantically looking for friendly faces, like 36-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/vidhiagrawal/\">Vidhi Agrawal\u003c/a> of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An H-1B visa holder herself, Agrawal works at the San Francisco software company Databricks. She and a friend have been running an informal database linking H-1B visa holders with prospective employers. In the last two weeks, the off-hours project has exploded from roughly 50 friends and acquaintances to over 500 people nationwide. She’s also in contact with about 100 hiring managers and recruiters from multiple companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a sudden thing that happens, and you have family, you have kids here, who’ve grown up here,” said Agrawal. “And to uproot, sell everything and move back to your home country, within two months. For any human, any individual, it’s hard.” To make matters worse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913665/200000-documented-dreamers-are-literally-waiting-a-lifetime-for-a-green-card\">many Indian H-1B holders are in a years-long queue to get a green card\u003c/a>, and leaving the country is tantamount to letting go of a huge investment of time and patience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agrawal added that H-1B visa workers are always particularly vulnerable to layoffs. “We did sign up for this. When we come on work visas, we know what we’re signing up for. It’s not, like, things have changed on us,” she said.[aside postID=\"news_11913665,news_11931311,forum_2010101891200\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the very least, \u003ca href=\"https://www.immihelp.com/h-1b-visa-layoff-and-60-days-grace-period/\">employers are required to notify federal immigration authorities and cover the cost of a plane flight back to the home country\u003c/a> when they lay off H-1B workers. Many companies, however, offer more support than that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remarking on the mass layoffs at Meta, \u003ca href=\"https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/\">Mark Zuckerberg, for instance, wrote\u003c/a>, “I know this is especially difficult if you’re here on a visa. There’s a notice period before termination and some visa grace periods, which means everyone will have time to make plans and work through their immigration status. We have dedicated immigration specialists to help guide you based on what you and your family need.” Private attorneys, of course, are eager to help for a fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/an-update-on-our-team\">Lyft\u003c/a> offers those on visas \u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/an-update-on-our-team\">the option to extend employment (with no expectation to work)\u003c/a> for an additional eight weeks in lieu of eight weeks of severance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s a huge benefit, because it means they have a greater time runway,” said Sophie Alcorn, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.alcorn.law/\">Alcorn Immigration Law\u003c/a> in Mountain View and writes about immigration for \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/07/dear-sophie-how-can-i-stay-in-the-us-if-ive-been-laid-off/\">TechCrunch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the laid-off tech workers have plenty of savings. They could find another job eventually. But getting through the holiday season with Thanksgiving just now and the December holidays, plus the hiring freezes, it’s going to be really hard to get an offer within the 60-day grace period that would allow the future employer to have enough prep time to do the three to four weeks of work that it takes to get an H-1B ready for filing with the government,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of people familiar with American immigration law say the 60-day grace period doesn’t accurately reflect the panic many workers and their families are in right now because of the paperwork involved in transitioning to a new job. “There’s a whole prefiling subcomponent with a totally different government agency besides USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services) and the Department of Homeland Security,” Alcorn explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to get a certified labor condition application approved with the Department of Labor. 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"content": "\u003cp>Workers at Amazon’s air freight fulfillment center in San Bernardino, which serves the West Coast, walked off the job Friday over what they say are insufficient wages and unsafe working conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inland Empire Amazon Workers United also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against supervisors, charging them with retaliating against employees for organizing. A spokesperson for the federal agency confirmed they received a complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at the facility, the company’s third largest in the U.S., are calling on the online retail giant to increase pay by $5 an hour and to improve job safety, especially during extreme heat. This is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-15/amazon-warehouse-workers-walkout-san-bernardino-air-hub\">second worker strike at the air hub since August\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rex Evans, Amazon worker\"]‘That’s why we had to organize, because they could spend millions on consultants to union-bust, to not let us organize. But they can’t give us the $5 raise.’[/pullquote]Amazon’s transportation and warehouse workers across the country are set to receive about $1 per hour more in their paychecks starting today, according to a company spokesperson. Amazon announced the raise in late September, as part of a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-expands-pay-and-benefits-front-line-employees-new\">$1 billion investment over the next year in its workforce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the starting wage at the San Bernardino facility, called KSBD, will now be about $18 per hour, workers said the boost is not enough to afford the rising cost of rent, groceries and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came back with this pitiful $1, which is nowhere near enough for associates to live off,” said Rex Evans, 61, who helps load cargo planes and directs them to and from tarmac gates. “A lot of associates are angry. They are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans, a former firefighter, said Amazon hired consultants who singled out and harassed workers involved in organizing efforts in recent months. In July, Evans and others delivered a petition to management requesting the $5 increase, which was signed by more than 800 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month, dozens of employees — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-15/amazon-warehouse-workers-walkout-san-bernardino-air-hub\">74 out of more than 1,500\u003c/a>, according to Amazon — abandoned their workstations midday in protest. As temperatures soared above 100 degrees, employees demanded the company fully implement required \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2022/2022-46.html#:~:text=To%20prevent%20heat%20illness%2C%20the,do%20in%20case%20of%20an\">California protections for outdoor workers\u003c/a> and offer first aid care and breaks for any employee feeling sick from the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This company makes huge profits, but they disregard the health and safety and livelihoods of the workers,” said Evans. “That’s why we had to organize, because they could spend millions on consultants to union-bust, to not let us organize. 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They are rallying for better pay among a surge in unionization efforts across the country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Warehouse Worker Resource Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s retail business has boomed during the pandemic, as consumers increasingly shopped online. The company reported an \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220202005957/en/Amazon.com-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-Results\">operating income of nearly $25 billion\u003c/a> last year, compared to about $23 billion in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said the company has “robust protocols” that meet or exceed industry standards and regulations. KSBD and other Amazon air hubs have air-conditioning, fans and a team of safety professionals ensuring employees take extra breaks when needed, wrote Mary Kate Paradis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respect our employees’ rights and freedoms, and take the health and safety of our employees very seriously,” Paradis said. “We’re proud to offer compensation packages for our front-line employees that not only include great pay, but also provide comprehensive benefits for regular full-time employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average pay for front-line Amazon warehouse and transportation jobs is more than $19 an hour, she said, while full-time employees are offered health insurance, a retirement account with a 50% company match and other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling warehouse industry employs more than 200,000 people in the Inland Empire metro area, east of Los Angeles, according to the Warehouse Worker Resource Center. About one-fifth are employed at Amazon facilities. The region has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/corporate-accountability/how-one-click-shopping-is-harming-californias-inland-empire-a1416131827/#:~:text=Amazon%2C%20the%20largest%20private%20employer,dozen%20facilities%20in%20the%20area.\">third largest concentration of Amazon warehouses\u003c/a> in the country, according to research by Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warehousing, transportation and delivery services are notorious for higher injury rates than other kinds of jobs, and are considered “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/hhu-list-2021-2022.pdf\">high hazard\u003c/a>” by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Amazon face more dangerous conditions than the rest of the warehouse industry, and \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-Injury-Machine_How-Amazons-Production-System-Hurts-Workers.pdf\">the company’s overall injury rate increased by 20% between 2020 and 2021\u003c/a>, according to a recent analysis by the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of four labor unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, KSBD’s rate for injuries that required days off work or job restrictions was significantly higher than for the industry as a whole, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">9.4 reported serious injuries per 100 workers\u003c/a>, according to figures kept by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday afternoon, about 100 workers at KSBD joined a picket line, said strike organizers. Amazon did not immediately confirm the number of employees who walked off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-day work stoppage comes days after Amazon warehouse workers in Moreno Valley, just south of San Bernardino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-10-11/amazon-workers-moreno-valley-union-petition\">filed paperwork to hold a union election\u003c/a> — the first time Amazon employees in the state have done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, rideshare and delivery drivers for Uber, DoorDash and other app-based companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928844/rideshare-drivers-rally-for-rights-announce-new-statewide-union\">rallied in San Francisco\u003c/a>, announcing the formation of a statewide union seeking to improve pay and working conditions for gig workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, workers at Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Apple and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/why-starbucks-apple-and-google-are-unionizing-now-for-the-first-time.html\">companies across the country have voted to unionize\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Amazon’s transportation and warehouse workers across the country are set to receive about $1 per hour more in their paychecks starting today, according to a company spokesperson. Amazon announced the raise in late September, as part of a nearly \u003ca href=\"https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/amazon-expands-pay-and-benefits-front-line-employees-new\">$1 billion investment over the next year in its workforce\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the starting wage at the San Bernardino facility, called KSBD, will now be about $18 per hour, workers said the boost is not enough to afford the rising cost of rent, groceries and gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came back with this pitiful $1, which is nowhere near enough for associates to live off,” said Rex Evans, 61, who helps load cargo planes and directs them to and from tarmac gates. “A lot of associates are angry. They are tired of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evans, a former firefighter, said Amazon hired consultants who singled out and harassed workers involved in organizing efforts in recent months. In July, Evans and others delivered a petition to management requesting the $5 increase, which was signed by more than 800 workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following month, dozens of employees — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-15/amazon-warehouse-workers-walkout-san-bernardino-air-hub\">74 out of more than 1,500\u003c/a>, according to Amazon — abandoned their workstations midday in protest. As temperatures soared above 100 degrees, employees demanded the company fully implement required \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DIRNews/2022/2022-46.html#:~:text=To%20prevent%20heat%20illness%2C%20the,do%20in%20case%20of%20an\">California protections for outdoor workers\u003c/a> and offer first aid care and breaks for any employee feeling sick from the heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This company makes huge profits, but they disregard the health and safety and livelihoods of the workers,” said Evans. “That’s why we had to organize, because they could spend millions on consultants to union-bust, to not let us organize. 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They are rallying for better pay among a surge in unionization efforts across the country. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Warehouse Worker Resource Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Amazon’s retail business has boomed during the pandemic, as consumers increasingly shopped online. The company reported an \u003ca href=\"https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220202005957/en/Amazon.com-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-Results\">operating income of nearly $25 billion\u003c/a> last year, compared to about $23 billion in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said the company has “robust protocols” that meet or exceed industry standards and regulations. KSBD and other Amazon air hubs have air-conditioning, fans and a team of safety professionals ensuring employees take extra breaks when needed, wrote Mary Kate Paradis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We respect our employees’ rights and freedoms, and take the health and safety of our employees very seriously,” Paradis said. “We’re proud to offer compensation packages for our front-line employees that not only include great pay, but also provide comprehensive benefits for regular full-time employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The average pay for front-line Amazon warehouse and transportation jobs is more than $19 an hour, she said, while full-time employees are offered health insurance, a retirement account with a 50% company match and other benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling warehouse industry employs more than 200,000 people in the Inland Empire metro area, east of Los Angeles, according to the Warehouse Worker Resource Center. About one-fifth are employed at Amazon facilities. The region has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/corporate-accountability/how-one-click-shopping-is-harming-californias-inland-empire-a1416131827/#:~:text=Amazon%2C%20the%20largest%20private%20employer,dozen%20facilities%20in%20the%20area.\">third largest concentration of Amazon warehouses\u003c/a> in the country, according to research by Consumer Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warehousing, transportation and delivery services are notorious for higher injury rates than other kinds of jobs, and are considered “\u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/documents/hhu-list-2021-2022.pdf\">high hazard\u003c/a>” by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Amazon face more dangerous conditions than the rest of the warehouse industry, and \u003ca href=\"https://thesoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/The-Injury-Machine_How-Amazons-Production-System-Hurts-Workers.pdf\">the company’s overall injury rate increased by 20% between 2020 and 2021\u003c/a>, according to a recent analysis by the Strategic Organizing Center, a coalition of four labor unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, KSBD’s rate for injuries that required days off work or job restrictions was significantly higher than for the industry as a whole, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.osha.gov/Establishment-Specific-Injury-and-Illness-Data\">9.4 reported serious injuries per 100 workers\u003c/a>, according to figures kept by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday afternoon, about 100 workers at KSBD joined a picket line, said strike organizers. Amazon did not immediately confirm the number of employees who walked off the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one-day work stoppage comes days after Amazon warehouse workers in Moreno Valley, just south of San Bernardino, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-10-11/amazon-workers-moreno-valley-union-petition\">filed paperwork to hold a union election\u003c/a> — the first time Amazon employees in the state have done so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, rideshare and delivery drivers for Uber, DoorDash and other app-based companies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928844/rideshare-drivers-rally-for-rights-announce-new-statewide-union\">rallied in San Francisco\u003c/a>, announcing the formation of a statewide union seeking to improve pay and working conditions for gig workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, workers at Starbucks, Trader Joe’s, Apple and other \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/why-starbucks-apple-and-google-are-unionizing-now-for-the-first-time.html\">companies across the country have voted to unionize\u003c/a>. 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Later, they marched to the offices of Lyft and DoorDash in the Mission Bay neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uber and Lyft driver Hector Castellanos said he hopes the new union will lead to benefits for workers like himself, who are labeled independent contractors, whereas companies currently are required only to provide \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">benefits\u003c/span> to employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deserve basic rights like good health care, workers’ compensation, sick days, vacations,” said Castellanos, 55, from Antioch. “These companies are taking more and more advantage of us. So that’s why I’m here, because I want to fight against this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Democratic Party Chair Honey Mahogany, a candidate in the supervisor race for District 6 encompassing Mission Bay, and District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar spoke at the event in support of drivers’ organizing efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar said that the city provided tax breaks and other benefits about a decade ago so start-ups like Uber could grow and get established, and that now those companies should “share the wealth” with their drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that they give back to San Francisco, that they comply with San Francisco values, and that’s supporting the workers,” he said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Hector Castellanos, driver for Uber and Lyft\"]‘We deserve basic rights like good health care, workers’ compensation, sick days, vacations … These companies are taking more and more advantage of us. So that’s why I’m here, because I want to fight against this.’[/pullquote]The rally comes during a week when \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/11/uber-lyft-doordash-stock-tank-gig-worker-rules/\">Uber, Lyft and DoorDash stock prices\u003c/a> plunged after the federal government unveiled proposed rules that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/11/business/economy/biden-gig-workers-contractors-employees.html?login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock\">could make it easier\u003c/a> for gig drivers, as well as millions of construction and home care workers, to be treated as employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed changes aim to “combat misclassification,” which also \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/WHD/WHD20221011-0\">hurts the economy\u003c/a>, according to a statement by the U.S. Department of Labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have seen in many cases that employers misclassify their employees as independent contractors, particularly among our nation’s most vulnerable workers,” wrote Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh. “Misclassification deprives workers of their federal labor protections, including their right to be paid their full, legally earned wages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated \u003ca href=\"https://ucreconomicforecast.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/UCR_CEFD_CA_AppDrivers_Analysis_2_17_2022.pdf\">1.37 million people worked on at least one ride or delivery\u003c/a> for DoorDash, Instacart, Lyft and Uber platforms in California between 2020 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly two years ago, California voters approved a ballot initiative that exempted Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and other app-based businesses from having to treat drivers as employees. Proposition 22 is currently in effect but is being challenged in state court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The companies, which spent more than $200 million to get that measure passed, say changing how they classify drivers threatens the survival of their businesses. In addition, they argue most drivers prefer to remain as independent contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With more than 1 million unfilled traditional jobs and record low unemployment in the state, drivers are still choosing this work because of the earning potential, benefits, independence, and flexibility it provides,” wrote a spokesperson for Lyft. “The special interest groups that claim to support drivers should listen to the vast majority of them who want to keep what they have under Prop 22.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia Olson, who owns a consulting business in Sacramento, fears that becoming an employee would mean she could no longer drive for Uber and Lyft, as she has done for the past five years. She worries that the legal challenge to Proposition 22 or changes to federal rules could strip her of her choice to supplement her income when and where she chooses, for as long as she wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a scary time,” said Olson, 55. “I mean, how would you feel if you knew that the politicians could turn off your ability to work permanently overnight? And there’s nothing you could do about it, because that’s what we are looking at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olson said a flexible schedule allows her to care for her husband, who has multiple sclerosis. She estimates she makes $30 an hour in net income as a driver, even with recent increases in gas prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a reason why so many people choose independent contracting and that’s because it works for them, and that’s their choice. And we all know there’s trade-offs,” she said. “So it makes no sense to force us to be employees, because we didn’t choose that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Uber, Lyft and DoorDash said Proposition 22 delivered a 120% minimum wage guarantee for drivers, while offering health care subsidies and other benefits. They pointed to a UC Riverside analysis that concluded \u003ca href=\"https://ucreconomicforecast.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/UCR_CEFD_CA_AppDrivers_Analysis_2_17_2022.pdf\">drivers earned $25.17 per active hour\u003c/a> in 2021, not including tips. The study was commissioned by the \u003ca href=\"https://protectdriversandservices.com/about/our-coalition/\">Protect App-Based Drivers and Services\u003c/a> coalition, of which Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and Instacart are members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a separate report authored by researchers at PolicyLink and Rideshare Drivers United last month \u003ca href=\"https://nationalequityatlas.org/prop22-paystudy\">estimated drastically lower earnings\u003c/a> for these gig workers. According to that study, typical rideshare drivers in California are taking home just $6.20 an hour, in part because they are not paid for the total time they are working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In statements, Uber, Lyft and DoorDash spokespeople slammed those findings as “deeply flawed,” criticizing the small sample used for the analysis, which was based on data from 3,020 trips by 21 drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several full-time drivers at the protest told KQED that they make significantly less than $15 an hour after they deduct the costs of driving, such as gas and car maintenance, and must work long days to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not going to work 12, 13 hours a day, you’re not going to survive,” said Armen Oganesyan, 57, who drives for Uber and Lyft in Los Angeles. “We basically live in the car … We are working every day from Monday to Sunday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Gig Workers Union, which representatives said is a movement of tens of thousands of people\u003cb data-stringify-type=\"bold\">, \u003c/b>merges two groups that had operated in the southern and northern regions of the state for years: the Mobile Workers Alliance and We Drive Progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Finally in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-leads-effort-seize-backpagecom-internet-s-leading-forum-prostitution-ads\">the Department of Justice seized the website and shut it down for “facilitating prostitution.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The limits of traditional banking\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>A few days after the end of Backpage, Congress \u003ca href=\"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ164/pdf/PLAW-115publ164.pdf\">passed a series of bills into law aimed at curbing sex trafficking.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The laws, known as the Allow States and Victims To Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA), attempted to shut down websites that facilitated sex trafficking online by increasing liability for third-party platforms — like Pornhub, RedTube and others — if they hosted content which played any role in facilitating sex trafficking or other illegal activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13897823\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/nft-artists-composite.jpg\"]Sex workers and advocates for the industry warned that, while the laws were well-intentioned and addressed an important problem, the laws were too vaguely written and could harm sex workers and porn performers conducting their business legally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure enough, in the years that followed, \u003ca href=\"https://lgbtq-economics.org/research/shut-down-shut-out/?fbclid=IwAR2G-691ykt7zDId3KGheoFdLujwbZP_rYhcEE1NSjFWF77_eFXfdlcouJw\">banks like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America cracked down on sex workers\u003c/a> using their financial services and shut down many accounts, for fear of being perceived to be complicit by federal regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Folks had their accounts closed by either banks or fintech companies that also frequently froze the money they had in those accounts, and they had difficulties getting that back,” said Spencer Watson, Executive Director of the Center for LGBTQ Economic Advancement and Research (CLEAR), a Bay-Area based advocacy group. “Some were completely unable to get that back or some had to wait weeks or more in order to have the check from the proceeds of their bank account delivered to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alexandria LaRue, Sex worker\"]‘Even though the work I do is 1,000 percent legal, it doesn’t mean [banks] won’t shut down my account or they won’t take my money away.’[/pullquote]In 2019, the Sex Workers Outreach Project’s (SWOP) Sacramento branch and non-profit Reframe Health + Justice \u003ca href=\"https://lgbtq-economics.org/research/shut-down-shut-out/?fbclid=IwAR2G-691ykt7zDId3KGheoFdLujwbZP_rYhcEE1NSjFWF77_eFXfdlcouJw\">conducted a national survey of more than 60 sex workers and their experiences with traditional banking systems\u003c/a>. 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Startups have popped up with snappy names like CumRocket, TitCoin and Model-X. Until federal regulators start to write laws that take into account cryptocurrency, these companies can operate outside the rules traditional banks must follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11860999\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/Protest_1-1-1020x573.png\"]When banks like JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America do provide service to adult entertainment websites, they often \u003ca href=\"https://www.ft.com/content/a6b5f2ca-daeb-483f-8004-d8189d99ded3\">charge high rates, because of a high frequency of “chargebacks,”\u003c/a> when a customer disputes a charge on their account statement and claims the charge was made fraudulently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cryptocurrency, on the other hand, is immutable, so it can’t be disputed or taken back. Once a payment is made, it’s accounted for on the distributed ledger and is set in stone. Adult entertainment sites that accept cryptocurrency, instead of payment from traditional banks, don’t have to pay high fees from those cryptocurrency platforms and therefore don’t pass along the cost to the performers who post their content on their sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaRue was one of the early adopters of SpankChain, a website on which adult entertainers can post explicit pictures and videos and get paid for their work in cryptocurrency. The company launched BOOTY ERC20, which has a lower volatility in value than a cryptocurrency coin like Bitcoin or Ether. It also recently launched Spank Pop Shots, where customers can buy one-of-a-kind digital, erotic pictures of models and performers called nonfungible tokens (NFTs).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cryptocurrency still remains a mystery to many porn performers looking for alternative banking solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sage the Flame, a performer based in Atlanta, started out in adult entertainment by posting erotic pictures on Snapchat. She handled money through PayPal, but the company eventually flagged her account for suspicious activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"arts_13901451\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/08/022_SanFrancisco_TransgenderDistrictStaff_07292021-1020x680.jpg\"]“I guess my account got flagged just because of the small frequent payments that were happening on my account,” Sage said. “And they were just like, this is against our terms of service. 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"content": "\u003cp>Thirty years ago, The New York Times did not have a website. Now, the company employs more than 700 tech workers, almost half its number of journalists. On Tuesday, those tech workers \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/13/business/stock-market-today#new-york-times-tech-workers-form-a-union\">announced they want to form a union\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost half the Times is already unionized, including most of the journalists, along with more traditional newspaper technologists: the printers. Now, the tech workers want to join the journalists in their union, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nyguild.org/about-the-new-york-times\">The NewsGuild\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times’ tech workers include everyone from software engineers and data scientists to designers and project managers. These are the people who develop the apps and website, make tools for journalists, analyze data about traffic, and just like the journalists, work around the clock when there is big news like an election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the latest in a series of unionizing efforts by both white collar tech workers and blue collar workers impacted by the internet and digital technology. If the Times workers are successful in their union bid, it will become the largest of any contemporary white collar tech worker organizing effort to be recognized by the National Labor Relations Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At KQED, we have been covering tech worker union efforts, but this story hits closer to home. My older brother is a programmer at the Times and part of the organizing effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I would obviously be partial when it comes to any negotiations with management, so I’m not reporting on any of that. Katie Robertson at The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/04/13/business/stock-market-today#new-york-times-tech-workers-form-a-union\">is covering how the union came together and how this union bid is being received\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What is happening at the Times though is a major development in a bigger story I have been reporting on for years: the growing realization among tech workers that they don’t have as much say on the job as they’d wish, and how organizing could be a way to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The New York Times is a large media company, but like many remaining big newsrooms it’s also a growing tech company. Some of the tech workers do jobs specific to media, like making sure the story layouts transfer to print or helping journalists create visualizations for data. But there are teams of developers and engineers doing the same kind of work that happens at Google or Facebook: building apps, managing traffic and analyzing user data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I spoke with tech workers at The New York Times about why they wanted to form a union and how they see themselves in relation to other workers in the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Organizing to Make a Different Kind of Tech Company\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Senior software engineer Nozlee Samadzadeh helps build the internal site for Times journalists to compose and edit their stories. She got into tech after working as a writer and editor herself. Samadzadeh says it’s important for her to have a say in what she builds and how it is used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samadzadeh says, “Unionizing is the only way to introduce a democratic process in your workplace, to kind of get a seat at the table with people in charge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Labor Coverage' tag='labor']Like many of the tech workers at the Times, Samadzadeh says she’s at the company because of the mission. She doesn’t want to work at big tech companies or startups. “I just could not ever, I think, justify that for myself,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samadzadeh says she couldn’t be somewhere focusing primarily on profit instead of social good. She hopes a union will help workers at the Times advocate for the company to resist that influence from Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shay Culpepper is an engineer who makes dashboards to track metrics on the Times’ homepage. She feels the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really like going to work every day and not having to sit and contemplate the ethics of the tech I am building,” Culpepper says. “There are definitely ethical considerations, but I am not having cognitive dissonance about the things we are building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the workers have firsthand experience of doing exactly that in Silicon Valley. Dylan Nugent is a senior software engineer at the Times. He works on tools to take the stories input by journalists and display them across all the Times’ platforms. Before that, he worked at startups in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these companies were not very diverse, and did not have an emphasis on diversity and inclusivity,” Nugent says. “A lot of them had the mentality of like: ‘We pay you well so any form of mistreatment or unpaid overtime, well, you shouldn’t have to worry about it because you’re already compensated well.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nugent says tech workers, and especially white men like him, should organize so they can use their relative privilege to help others in tech, as well as those in industries where workers have less power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I have a more powerful voice, let me use it to amplify the concerns of the people who aren’t being listened to,” he says. “Let me use it to help build a democratic workplace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kathy Zhang, New York Times senior analytics manager\"]‘There is this myth of meritocracy that says, ‘If you can work really hard or if you gain these specialized skills, that will set you apart from everyone else and you’ll be able to reap these benefits that other people don’t have.”[/pullquote]Kathy Zhang is senior analytics manager on a team that measures traffic and other data for Times news products. She is excited to be part of a union that can push for diversity and equity in the workplace. She says tech workers need to realize they have something to gain from organizing just like any other worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is this myth of meritocracy that says, ‘If you can work really hard or if you gain these specialized skills, that will set you apart from everyone else and you’ll be able to reap these benefits that other people don’t have,’ ” Zhang says. “But I don’t think of myself as apart from other people. I don’t think that, just because I can write SQL and I can put some dashboards together, that means I should think of myself as exceptional. I don’t make any decisions in front of the board at shareholders meetings, right? I work for a paycheck.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the tech workers I spoke with were drawn to the Times by the mission and journalism of the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Allowing citizens around the world to be well-informed and to understand things, I think that sense of purpose is so beautiful,” Culpepper says. On top of that, she says the paper was doing incredible things digitally. She says she was obsessed with the cooking and sudoku apps before she started working there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My brother, Benjamin Harnett, used to read the paper cover to cover when he was a boy, and our mother had to politely ask for him to stop filling in the crossword before she got to it. He has been an engineer at the Times for nine years, disregarding the stream of recruitment emails from companies like Google and Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The normal thing in the tech industry is to hop from company to company every two years,” he says. “You do a big project, get a promotion and then move on. You can’t build anything meaningful that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samadzadeh sees the union as a way for workers to be more involved and committed to the company. She says, “Everyone at the Times cares so much. The ability to get a chance to be part of making the Times better is just so exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Tech Workers Are Workers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The tech workers at the Times could get material advantages they currently don’t have by joining The NewsGuild: things like overtime, a pension and a say in their health care through union reps. None of that is typical in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guild organizer Marybeth Seitz-Brown says there is an interesting parallel between the tech workers of today and the journalists at The New York Times who first organized back in the 1930s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Intellectual workers, like journalists, were often identifying as professionals instead of workers that have things in common with the people they work with,” Seitz-Brown says. “In some ways, we are seeing the next wave of that same process that journalists went through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While tech workers are relatively well paid compared to some other workers in the economy, they have similar concerns over pay and job protection as all workers. Over the decades they have faced the same kinds of attacks by management and owners that KQED detailed in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/howwegothere\">a three-hour documentary on the erosion of worker power\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There have been abrupt layoffs of tech workers during economic crises, with the pandemic being the latest example. Hundreds of workers at some companies were fired en masse, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52091615\">sometimes over Zoom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 1990s, tech companies pioneered techniques to cut labor costs by outsourcing, contracting and temping workers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-vizcaino-v-microsoft-corp\">all of which led to a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft\u003c/a>. Today \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11741371/two-tiered-caste-system-the-world-of-white-collar-contracting-in-silicon-valley\">there is a distinct two-tiered system in Silicon Valley\u003c/a> of full-time workers with benefits, and part timers and contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11741371 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/04182019_Google-qut-1020x697.jpg']There is a lot of misinformation about the wealth of tech workers. Big payouts can come from stock options, but that’s rare. Most tech workers are not at startups or high up at big tech companies. A majority rely on their wages, which have been relatively \u003ca href=\"https://www.computerworld.com/article/2493845/if-tech-is-so-important--why-are-it-wages-flat-.html\">stagnant for decades\u003c/a> along with everyone else’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>An Upswing in Organizing Despite Opposition\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Big tech companies have made organizing harder for tech workers than it is at media organizations like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, where some tech workers are already unionized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, the big tech companies are much larger than a media organization like the Times. On top of that, companies like Google and Facebook have divided their workers through contracting and outsourcing all over the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech giants are also actively fighting unionization efforts at the top and bottom of their workforces. Just last week, Amazon \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/04/09/982139494/its-a-no-amazon-warehouse-workers-vote-against-unionizing-in-historic-election\">defeated efforts to unionize workers\u003c/a> at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Amazon stopped the union for blue collar workers, union efforts are growing among white collar tech workers. Over 800 workers at Alphabet, Google’s parent company, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11853806/its-not-easy-to-unionize-at-tech-companies-but-google-employees-are-doing-it\">are organizing\u003c/a>. It’s a small fraction of the company’s approximately 250,000 workers – but just a few years ago you would have been hard pressed to find any tech worker in Silicon Valley \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11679302/in-a-direct-challenge-to-their-employers-tech-workers-begin-to-organize\">who was even talking about organizing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ruth Milkman, City University of New York\"]‘If you look historically at labor movements, they don’t grow incrementally, they grow in spurts. Everyone is wondering at the moment, are we at the early stage at such a spurt?’[/pullquote]The organizing movement in tech has spread from less privileged workers upward. First, service workers at companies like Apple and Facebook joined unions like the Teamsters and SEIU. Uber and Lyft drivers and other gig workers formed groups like \u003ca href=\"https://www.drivers-united.org/\">Rideshare Drivers United\u003c/a>, and \u003ca href=\"https://gigworkersrising.org/\">Gig Workers Rising\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White collar tech worker organizing has been spurred by conflicts with management, but also over issues like a lack of diversity and equity, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11714714/time-is-up-employee-unrest-grows-at-silicon-valley-companies\">and more political concerns about what their companies are building and how the products are being used\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tech workers have formed organizations like the \u003ca href=\"https://techworkerscoalition.org/\">Tech Workers Coalition\u003c/a> and employees at companies like Google and Microsoft have spoken out publicly against contracts with the military and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a group of around 90 subcontracted workers at Google in Pittsburgh joined the United Steelworkers union. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11839817/how-a-scrappy-group-of-tech-workers-formed-one-of-the-only-unions-in-the-industry\">Smaller companies like Kickstarter\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/02/following-unionization-glitch-signs-collective-bargaining-agreement/\">Glitch\u003c/a> started their own unions. Alongside this organizing, a string of online media organizations \u003ca href=\"https://culturalworkersorganize.org/digital-media-organizing-timeline/\">like Quartz, Vox and Slate have unionized\u003c/a>. The bid for a union at The New York Times is by far the biggest effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you look historically at labor movements, they don’t grow incrementally, they grow in spurts,” says Ruth Milkman, a sociologist who teaches labor studies at the City University of New York. “Everyone is wondering at the moment, are we at the early stage at such a spurt?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milkman says we’re seeing lots of more privileged, educated workers starting to organize, which bodes well for the labor movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Skilled workers, in manufacturing and construction have often been in the vanguard of organizing, not so much out of a sense of, you know, that they can help their coworkers, but partly because they have the leverage,” Milkman says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, the future of more and more companies rests on their tech workers. Milkman says the core grievance of workers at The New York Times is simple — and the same as the factory workers of the past — they want more say on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Finding a vaccine appointment can be confusing and complicated — especially if you’re not particularly comfortable using the internet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11855623/where-can-i-get-a-covid-19-vaccine-in-the-bay-area-your-questions-answered#county\"> County public health webpages in the Bay Area\u003c/a> \u003cem>have\u003c/em> progressively gotten easier to navigate as vaccine information has become more available. But it wasn’t so easy a few months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoelle Egner was working in the marketing department for a big tech company, from home in Oakland, and was also frantically trying to find vaccine information. Egner said she saw friends doing exactly the same, “calling 20, 30 locations, trying to understand [if they] were eligible for a vaccine, how they get an appointment — and over and over again, really hitting walls.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11856204/californias-clearest-covid-19-vaccine-appointment-dashboard-is-run-by-volunteers\">she and her friends decided to do something about it\u003c/a>. They created \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinateca.com/\">VaccinateCA.com\u003c/a>, an aggregator website that compiles data from clinics and pharmacies across the state. After typing in your ZIP code or county name, a list of sites will pop up with vaccination information for eligible people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we call the people who can actually give you a vaccine and we write down what they say — do they have a vaccine, who is eligible and how do you get an appointment — then hopefully, hundreds or even thousands of phone calls don’t need to be made [by members of the public,” said Egner.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11855623\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VaccinateCA swiftly expanded as more volunteers signed up to help maintain the site. But Egner and her team weren’t the only people using technology to address information gaps around vaccination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Freemer created \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaxxmax.com/\">VaxxMax,\u003c/a> a website that fetches data from pharmacy websites, including Walgreens, CVS and Rite Aid, on the status of vaccination slots at each provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I quickly became frustrated with the process you have to go through on the pharmacy sites,” Freemer said. “I brainstormed a bit and thought of a mechanism that could help in the process, originally only for my own personal use.” Freemer created a code and built a website that others could use, scraping code for Rite Aid stores. Eventually, the website expanded to other vaccine providers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>VaccinateCA and VaxxMax are just two of many sites that promise a clearer answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Where can I find a vaccine?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like \u003ca href=\"https://vaccinefinder.org/\">VaccineFinder\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.vaccinespotter.org/CA/\">Vaccine Spotter\u003c/a>, scan available appointments at clinics and pharmacies near your ZIP code — essentially aggregating information that’s already available online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sign-up sites like \u003ca href=\"https://hidrb.com/\">Dr. B\u003c/a> go further, and will put you on a waitlist for a leftover vaccine that could be available near you at a moment’s notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What \u003cstrong>— and Who — \u003c/strong>Gets Left Out?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s worth clarifying that these kinds of sites aren’t run by public health departments, or the state itself. As such, their priorities — including speed and convenience — aren’t necessarily those of public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, public health and internet ethics watchdogs have misgivings about some of these kinds of sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irina Raicu, director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/internet-ethics/\">internet ethics program at Santa Clara University’s Markkula Center,\u003c/a> worries that while these sites are easy to use for many Bay Area residents, they also require internet access and a fair amount of internet literacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anytime something is done through the internet, it means that it’s leaving some people out,” said Raicu.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"news_11856204\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her colleague Dr. Charles Binkley, the Markkula Center’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/bioethics/\">director of bioethics\u003c/a>, feels that the existence of \u003cem>multiple\u003c/em> sites is part of what’s confusing the public around vaccines. He also cautions that it’s impossible for people using these sites to be completely sure of their accuracy, despite the best efforts of those running them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of VaccinateCA’s method of volunteers calling vaccination sites to aggregate information, Binkley believes that “it’s very unlikely that the person who is answering the phone is going to have this global view of how many doses they have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I’d rather see are these engineers working within the system that’s already in place to make it better, rather than trying to duplicate it outside,” said Binkley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these volunteer or pop-up websites were created months ago, back when public health departments were scrambling to handle an influx of traffic from eager residents looking for vaccine information, all as eligibility shifted frequently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not only have counties somewhat improved the navigability of their public health websites, but in late January, the California Department of Public Health launched \u003ca href=\"https://myturn.ca.gov/\">My Turn \u003c/a>— a centralized place for Californians to assess their eligibility for a vaccine, and then find an appointment near them as supplies allow. And in light of these developments, Raicu believes privately created sites like VaccinateCA or Dr. B might have outlived their usefulness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be that this kind of site maybe made every ethical sense in the world for a week, while something better wasn’t around,” Raicu said. “And maybe it needs, at some point, to just go away — because it’s interfering with the efforts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>The Ethics of Hunting Leftover Vaccines\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Sites like Dr. B have encouraged people, eager for their vaccine, but not yet eligible, to be on the lookout for a leftover dose. But while some sites \u003cem>will\u003c/em> dole out leftover vaccines to ineligible people at the end of the day, other vaccination sites — especially those operated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency — have strict regulations for where leftover vaccines can go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandarena.com/ring-central\">RingCentral Coliseum\u003c/a> in Oakland is a FEMA-operated site. According to officials from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, site operators will call the Alameda Office of Education, the Sheriff’s Office and the Transportation Commission to give leftover vaccines to vulnerable individuals in high-risk jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other sites, like San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/location/moscone-center-south-covid-19-vaccine-site\">Moscone Center\u003c/a>, operated through Kaiser Permanente, have different guidelines that allow them to be more loose with their leftover vaccines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Standard practice is that appointments are required at the Moscone vaccination hub,” a spokesperson from San Francisco’s COVID Command Center said — but “occasionally, when small amounts of unused vaccines are left over at the end of the day, vaccines may be made available to a limited number of people who do not have appointments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Binkley is skeptical of this standby-line model for vaccine distribution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is ‘first-come, first-served’ really a great ethical model? 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"content": "\u003cp>When the Big Three, which is to say, the CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter, testify before a U.S. Senate or \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/dw6wJ7dFiPs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">House committee\u003c/a> — as they do again on Thursday — they will face an increasingly familiar litany of challenges from lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top among them: Why do these companies, among the wealthiest and most technologically sophisticated in the world, have such trouble scrubbing their platforms of misinformation, disinformation and hate speech?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are also asking: Why do these companies have such trouble scrubbing their platforms of objectionable material in languages other than English?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/dw6wJ7dFiPs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Think Facebook is failing with disinformation in English? You won’t believe what’s happening in Spanish.” So says a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/NqpIAJdz2c0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video\u003c/a> launched recently as part of a campaign called #YaBastaFacebook, or “Enough Already.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mounting Pressure\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The campaign is organized by a coalition of advocacy groups, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanprogress.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for American Progress\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.freepress.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free Press\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nhmc.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Hispanic Media Coalition\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://the-citizens.com/real-facebook-oversight/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Real Facebook Oversight Board\u003c/a>, a British-based group of journalists, filmmakers and others critical of \u003ca href=\"https://oversightboard.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation= \"U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Los Angeles\"]‘My mother-in-law is saying, ‘Is it true that there’s some kind of an electronic thing that they’re going to put in your body?’ ‘[/pullquote]Collectively, they claim Facebook’s efforts to scrub Spanish-language content of political and health-related misinformation and disinformation have been underwhelming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. Tony Cárdenas, D-Los Angeles, is on board with the campaign, because, he says, this issue is as personal to him as his 78-year-old mother-in-law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My mother-in-law is saying, ‘Is it true that there’s some kind of an electronic thing that they’re going to put in your body?” he said during a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/uQtcbfUKRcQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press conference\u003c/a> the coalition held last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cárdenas was referring to one of the most popular myths that has spread across the internet, in multiple languages: that the COVID-19 vaccine contains a microchip that allows the government to track people. Cárdenas says Facebook — by far the largest social media company, which owns three popular platforms, including WhatsApp and Instagram — has the money to do more, and should do more, before federal lawmakers force it to do more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should not be left to the not-for-profits and to the community at large to do the job Facebook admits that they actually do in English. I’m not saying that they do a good job in English, but the job that they’re doing in Spanish and in other languages is almost nonexistent by comparison,” Cárdenas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/facebook_coronavirus_misinformation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a recent study\u003c/a> published last year by the human rights nonprofit Avaaz, just 29% of misinformation in Spanish is flagged on Facebook, compared to 70% of comparable material in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study found, for example, that it took 22 days for Facebook to flag a \u003ca href=\"http://archive.vn/vP4fB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video in Spanish \u003c/a>that falsely claimed the virus was deliberately created in a lab at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan. It took nine days for the video to be fact-checked and another 13 days for the company to add the misinformation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By that time, the video had already been viewed 33 million times.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘Aggressive’ Steps\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Facebook spokeswoman Dani Lever told KQED in an email that the social media giant is taking “aggressive” human and automated steps to fight misinformation in Spanish and dozens of other languages, including by removing millions of pieces of misleading content related to COVID-19 and the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, she added, wants “to continue our dialogue with these [advocacy] groups to strengthen our approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives from YouTube and Twitter said much the same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community guidelines and approach to misinformation apply to all content in any language. And we have reviewers and raters in all relevant languages, looking at e.g. Spanish videos when flagged,” said Elena Hernandez, a spokeswoman for Google, whose parent company owns YouTube, said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twitter spokesman Trenton Kennedy wrote that his company’s goal was to eventually use both automated and human review to address content that violates its COVID-19 vaccine misinformation rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Machine learning and automated language processing takes time to be effective,” he wrote. “As such, we will begin with English-language content first and use this same process as we work to expand to other languages and cultural contexts over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"misinformation\"]But as a growing list of incidents around election tampering, racially motivated attacks and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy clog news headlines worldwide, the heat is on Silicon Valley companies to up their game substantially.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasingly, social media giants face \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/23/facebook-lawsuit-deceptive-practices-disinformation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">litigation\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8636/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/25/big-tech-how-europe-became-the-worlds-top-regulator.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">regulation\u003c/a> across the globe. Critics argue that, at best, platforms aren’t doing enough to moderate toxic content. At worst, they say, platforms are intentionally amplifying toxic content to profit off of the advertising revenue it brings in, a process they’ve dubbed the “hate-for-profit” economic model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That growing backlash comes even as these platforms, which treat much of their data as proprietary intellectual property, make it difficult for journalists, academic researchers and advocacy groups to keep track of problematic content and efforts to control it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are unable to say how significant the harms are, and therefore, whether there is enough being done to combat them,” said Ivan Sigal, executive director of \u003ca href=\"https://globalvoices.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global Voices\u003c/a>, a citizen media network that operates in about 40 languages. “We do not have visibility into the companies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Reaching Across Borders\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Global Voices conducted an in-depth, international study of popular COVID-19 content in a dozen different languages. 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