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And FIFA luxury suites can cost over $200,000 for a single match in Los Angeles. \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/world-cup-suites-sofis-union-workers-unite-los-angeles\">Union workers at SoFi Stadium\u003c/a> say they want their pay to reflect that wealth. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors, has reached \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/hollywood-actors-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-with-studios-streamers\">a tentative four-year deal\u003c/a> with major studios.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2026-05-01/measure-b-could-reshape-shasta-county-elections-if-courts-allow-it\">\u003cstrong>Measure B could reshape Shasta County elections, if courts allow it\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Measure B, also titled, “Local election transparency and security reform,” proposes several changes to how Shasta County’s elections are conducted. It would require that elections take place in one day, ballots be hand counted by volunteers and voters would have to provide photo ID to vote. It would also severely restrict voting-by-mail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28084146-charter-amendment-v2-lhobbs-noi-3525-copy-redacted/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>The proposed charter amendment\u003c/u>\u003c/a> was brought forward by Laura Hobbs, Rich Gallardo and other county residents involved in local politics for years. Gallardo said he’s too busy to be interviewed for this story, and Hobbs did not respond to multiple requests. In a March interview with Jefferson Public Radio, Hobbs said this measure is intended to restore trust in the elections. “The Constitution guarantees a representative form of government,” she said. “And if you do not know that the people that you elected are rightfully in office and that the election was fair and honest, then the very foundation of our government crumbles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s one problem: a lot of what’s proposed appears to violate state and federal laws. One example is hand counting. In 2023, county supervisors’ efforts gained national attention over a similar issue. They \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2023-03-10/a-california-county-has-dumped-dominion-leaving-its-election-operations-up-in-the-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>voted to scrap\u003c/u>\u003c/a> the county’s existing voting machines and attempted to hand-count future elections. Shortly after, state lawmakers \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2023-09-08/california-legislature-bans-hand-counting-in-most-elections-targeting-shasta-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>passed a bill\u003c/u>\u003c/a> outlawing the practice, specifically targeting Shasta County. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1126796538/voting-explainer-hand-counting-ballots-accuracy-cost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Research has found\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that hand-counting ballots is more time-consuming, more expensive and less accurate than machine counting. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23731943-letter-and-manual-tally-analysis/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>A plan by the previous county clerk\u003c/u>\u003c/a> estimated a full hand count of an election would cost around $1.6 million and require 1,300 additional staff members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now activists are again pushing to change elections in Shasta County. But their efforts face some opposition. “It’s going to disenfranchise voters,” said Cork McGowan, a Redding resident who wrote the opposition statement for Measure B. “Particularly in a rural county like Shasta, some people have to drive quite a distance to be able to vote, and to do that on one day is unfair and very unreasonable.” McGowan said he’s not part of any group. He just saw there was no organized opposition to the measure and stepped up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Secretary of State’s office declined to comment on the measure, including whether it was planning a lawsuit. Supporters of the measure say that if it passes, they hope to keep the parts that are legal or tweak the measure to fit existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/hollywood-actors-reach-tentative-labor-agreement-with-studios-streamers\">\u003cstrong>World Cup suites can cost over $200,000. Will SoFi’s union workers reap the benefits?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Spectators in Los Angeles this summer for the World Cup could pay up to $209,000 for a private suite for just one match, but union workers at SoFi Stadium are worried they’ll miss out on the action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bartenders, cooks, dishwashers and servers represented by Unite Here Local 11 have staffed the events held at the stadium since it opened, from the 2022 Super Bowl and NFL games every fall to Taylor Swift and Beyoncé concerts. That includes positions in suites, where fans can pay top dollar for private rooms, food and drink. But FIFA has brought in another entity entirely to run its luxury program for World Cup fans. The company, called On Location, is FIFA’s official “hospitality partner,” offering those that can afford it exclusive seating, special gifts and meals. Their packages can cost tens of thousands of dollars or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at SoFi say they’re worried that FIFA’s relationship with On Location means jobs that would typically go to union workers — and the wages and tips that go with them — will instead go to subcontractors without union protections. It’s one reason they’re threatening to strike when the World Cup comes to town. ”We have so many wonderful workers who’ve been here season after season,” said Kay Blake, a bartender from Inglewood who works at SoFi Stadium. “I don’t see why they would partner with someone else to bring an experience that we can bring ourselves.” Workers also want to be paid a higher rate that reflects the sky-high ticket prices for the eight World Cup matches at SoFi Stadium. 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A contentious rulemaking process has dragged on for five more years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A work safety board was widely expected last month to finally approve rules requiring employers to keep indoor work areas below 87 degrees, provide access to cool-down areas when temperatures hit 82 degrees, and take other steps to minimize heat injuries and illnesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the standard was further delayed due to cost estimates the Department of Finance said it received late in the game, revealing correctional facilities might spend billions of dollars to comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finance department must concur on estimates of the fiscal impact of proposed regulations before they are adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To move forward, the California Division of Occupational Health and Safety, known as Cal/OSHA, announced it plans to exempt state prisons and other correctional facilities from the indoor heat standard so that it can be in effect sometime this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11980459,news_11976710,news_11886628\"]“Cal/OSHA intends to revise the package with a narrow exemption in recognition of the unique implementation challenges that existing text may pose for local and state correctional facilities,” said Eric Berg, deputy chief of health for Cal/OSHA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency will also craft industry-specific heat regulations for state and local correctional institutions in the future, Berg told the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CDCR, which employs tens of thousands of guards, nurses, janitors and other positions, had a \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2023-24/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/FullBudgetSummary.pdf\">$14.4 billion annual budget\u003c/a> approved for this fiscal year. 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"content": "\u003cp>After sorting and loading packages through a 100-plus-degree heat wave at an Inland Empire Amazon air freight hub last July, workers and their advocates called California’s workplace safety agency to complain of unsafe conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA inspectors came out, and in a citation issued in January and announced this week, agreed with the workers: The online retail giant hadn’t done enough to address the heat for those working outside on the tarmac and had committed “serious” safety violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But workers didn’t get all the accountability they wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal/OSHA dismissed nearly half their complaints — the ones alleging hot working conditions inside the warehouses. One possible reason: While California requires employers to reduce the risks of heat illness for outdoor workers, a comparable rule still isn’t on the books for indoor workers. And though state lawmakers ordered one in 2016 and set a 2019 deadline, it won’t be until next month when the state is finally expected to adopt a rule to go into effect by the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Shane Gusman, lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during discussions\"]‘There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this. It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.’[/pullquote]Excessive heat can cause nausea, vomiting, fainting, and, in the most extreme cases, heat stroke, leading to organ damage or death. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from indoor heat from 2010 through 2017. In recent years, summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/these-southern-california-temperatures-are-now-the-highest-ever-recorded/\">across southern California\u003c/a> have broken historical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon disputed the citation and said it is appealing. It said that its San Bernardino air hub is air-conditioned, workers are encouraged to take breaks, and the company generally supports an indoor heat standard. It declined to comment on the state’s proposed rule. “We’ve seen the positive impacts of an effective heat mitigation program and believe all employers should be held to the same standard as we have proactively set,” company spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why a state rule has taken so long — even with lives at stake — is to take a journey through the byzantine world of administrative rulemaking in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters review found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The 2016 law gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> the option to adopt an indoor heat rule targeted at certain industries, but the agency wrote a broad one, prompting immediate pushback from a wide swath of employers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Cal/OSHA advisory committee took employer and worker input and drafted a rule by the 2019 deadline, but it had to be submitted to a little-known state workplace safety board for approval;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, that safety board, part of the understaffed Department of Industrial Relations, was focused on emergency COVID-19 prevention rules;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before any vote could happen, the rule triggered a requirement in state law for an economic impact study;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state hired two different contractors to complete the economic assessment and didn’t submit the final study until September 2021;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After another year-plus of “detailed consultation” with other agencies, the safety board started its own rulemaking process in March 2023. Still, there have been four public comment periods since — more than most other recent regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/oshsb.html\">Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> is expected to give final approval to the rule at its March 21 meeting, making California the third state with indoor heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Approval would come at the last possible minute:\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>If there are further amendments and the vote doesn’t happen in March, the workplace safety board’s formal rulemaking process — which can take as long as a year — would have to start over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of push and pull between the employers’ and the workers’ side on this,” said Shane Gusman, a lobbyist who represented the Teamsters and other unions during the discussions. “It’s just something at this point in time we need to get in place. Summer’s coming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s in the indoor heat rule\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rule would require employers statewide to provide cooling areas and monitor workers who take cooling breaks for signs of heat illness when indoor workplaces hit 82 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the temperature hits 87, or if workers wear restrictive clothing or work near a heat source, businesses would have to take further steps: First, to cool the worksite, if feasible. If not, employers must adjust work schedules, slow production, allow more breaks or rotate workers through assignments. They’d have to provide personal fans or cooling vests as a last resort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Industries expected to be most affected include warehouses, manufacturing and restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sara Fee, former Amazon air hub employee\"]‘The humidity inside the building was unbearable. You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.’[/pullquote]Neither advocates for workers nor employers are satisfied with the proposed rule. Workers want to require lower temperatures. Employers said the rule is too complicated, conflicts with the outdoor heat rule and is too broad to apply to vastly different indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this regulation for California employers has been trying to find language that works equally well for an office building, a restaurant kitchen and a storage shed,” said Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ advocates said their top priority now is to get a rule on the books without further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the indoor rule, workers complaining of heat at the Amazon warehouse last summer asked Cal/OSHA to inspect inside under a general rule requiring safe workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The humidity inside the building was unbearable,” said former air hub employee Sara Fee, who helped file the complaint along with the San Bernardino-based Warehouse Worker Resource Center, where she now works. “You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauling packages in and out of truck trailers was the hottest task. The metal containers sitting in the sun easily climbed above 100 degrees, Fee said, and even with air conditioners in the warehouse and fans near the trucks, the trailers “feel like a sauna” with workers in “constant motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a plaid shirt on a black tshirt and a black truckers hat with a map behind her and looking at the camera with a slight smile. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Empire Amazon Workers United founder Sara Fee in front of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario on Feb 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The heat that comes from the trailer almost knocks you over,” Fee said. “We had fans you could turn around and face into the trailers, but you might as well be standing there with a straw in your mouth blowing air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency found no evidence of safety violations indoors, according to the citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon is appealing the outdoor citations and disputed claims about hot working conditions both inside and outside the 660,000-square-foot KSBD facility at San Bernardino International Airport, where about 1,400 workers carry cargo off arriving planes, sort them with the help of large robots and load them onto truck trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lynch Vogel, spokesperson, Amazon\"]‘There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors.’[/pullquote]Amazon spokesperson Lynch Vogel said the facility is fully air-conditioned — unlike many others in the distribution industry — and never hotter than 78 degrees inside. “There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Shadix, legal director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, said he suspects the lack of an indoor heat rule made it more difficult to issue violations inside the warehouse. The prior summer, workers wearing thermometers inside the warehouse and truck trailers reported temperatures of between 75 and 96 degrees and between 80 and 121 on the tarmac — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/amazon-heat-wave-california-work\">a report that\u003c/a> Amazon also disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a clear standard would give more clear indication to employers to take more proactive steps, and if there’s still a need for citations, having explicit standards that are required to be followed will make that process a clearer path for Cal/OSHA,” Shadix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long, hot history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though recent heat waves have made the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/workplace-injuries-rising-temperatures/\">risks of hot workplaces\u003c/a> top-of-mind for policymakers, workers have been pushing for protections for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in factories and even libraries in Southern California were petitioning the state for a general heat standard — indoors and outdoors — as early as the 1980s, said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library branches didn’t have air conditioning yet, and (librarians) got sick in the stacks,” he said. “Then in the subsequent decade or two, a lot of those spaces became air-conditioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the heat-related deaths of four farmworkers prompted California to adopt an outdoor heat illness prevention rule, which requires shade and water when the temperature hits 80 degrees and, for farming and construction work, additional breaks and monitoring when it hits 95. It was the first such rule in the nation; a 2021 study \u003ca href=\"https://docs.iza.org/dp14560.pdf\">suggested it has helped (PDF)\u003c/a> to decrease workplace injuries on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other workers, such as those in the newly booming warehouses of the High Desert and Inland Empire, took up the cause of an indoor heat rule. In 2011, a union representing workers at a Lancaster warehouse secured heat protections in its contract with Rite Aid, but union president Luisa Gratz said as the climate gets hotter, workers need stronger protections in state law, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976719\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers load packages into electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/REUTERS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Teamsters secured a contract with UPS that averted a nationwide strike and that, besides higher pay, included air conditioning in delivery trucks for drivers and additional fans, ice machines and water fountains in buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">20 workers died\u003c/a> from heat illness between 2010 and 2017, seven of them because of indoor heat, according to the Rand Corp., which analyzed the state’s proposed indoor heat rules. Workers compensation data analyzed by Cal/OSHA show between 2010 and 2018 — the hottest decade on record — an average of 185 workers a year claimed injuries from indoor heat, a figure that was rising, and nearly 20% of all workplace heat injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency only recently began separately counting safety complaints that mention indoor heat; it received 194 such complaints in 2022 and 549 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those most likely to experience injuries are younger and male, a likely indication of who is working in industries with the most heat exposure, said Amy Heinzerling, chief of the Emerging Workplace Hazards Unit at the California Department of Public Health. Nearly 10% were injured within the first two weeks on the job, Heinzerling found in another study, highlighting the importance of “gradually increasing worker exposure to hot conditions and really keeping a close eye on them for signs of heat illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/connie-leyva-1967/\">Connie Leyva\u003c/a>, a labor-friendly Democrat from the Inland Empire, introduced the bill for Cal/OSHA to develop an indoor heat rule. It was a direct response to reports of workers falling ill from heat in warehouses concentrated in her district, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially wanted the rule to take effect in 2017 and said in a recent interview she “had no idea that it would take this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did expect it to happen right away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delays in rulemaking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat advisory committee began meeting to draft the rule in February 2017, a wide range of employers pushed back immediately, some questioning the need for an indoor rule at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee met over the next two years, going back and forth on the temperature and whether to consider other factors, such as workers’ activity level and humidity levels in the workplace. Worker advocates wanted an across-the-board 80-degree threshold, while some employers called for stricter protections to kick in only at 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2019, the agency had a draft proposal ready for the workplace safety board to kick off formal rulemaking — a process that can be as short as a few months and as long as one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the delays really began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the rule would have at least $50 million in economic impact, a 2011 state law required a study to be submitted to the Department of Finance. The requirement has irked labor advocates, who argue workplace regulations are already subject to vetting. The Cal/OSHA advisory committee on indoor heat met three times and revised a draft rule seven times before submitting it to the safety board, which also takes comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11956922,news_11969338,news_11886628\"]Leyva, backed by the California Labor Federation, tried in 2017 and 2021 to exempt Cal/OSHA from conducting economic impact studies, saying they slow down regulations that are needed for workers’ safety. Both times, the bill cleared the Senate and then died. Leyva blamed business interests that were hostile to new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the people who were always talking about streamlining things and saying, ‘There’s too much regulation, there’s too many hoops to jump through,’” she said, “We propose a bill that’s going to streamline it, and all of a sudden, ‘Oh, no, we can’t do that.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2020, the Department of Industrial Relations, which houses Cal/OSHA and the occupational safety board, submitted a draft study to the Department of Finance. While that study was underway, the department put out a second contract. It submitted a final study a year and a half later, using the new contractor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neither department explained why two contractors were needed. The final economic impact study conducted by the Rand Corp. estimated that the proposed rule would cost employers statewide $215 million in the first year and about $88 million annually afterward, mostly for employers to install AC or fans or provide cool-down areas. The analysis also predicted the rule would cut indoor workplace heat injuries by 40% by 2030.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another year passed. Asked for an explanation for the delay, the Department of Industrial Relations said only that it was talking to other agencies, including the governor’s office, between late 2021 and early 2023. The department responded in a statement Wednesday after weeks of inquiries. It declined to make a representative of the safety board available for an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a complex rulemaking that required detailed consultation with subject matter experts at various points, which led to further edits and refinements to the documents,” a department spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November 2022, then-Assembly Labor chairperson \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/ash-kalra-1972/\">Ash Kalra\u003c/a>, a San José Democrat, asked an embattled and understaffed Cal/OSHA about why the rule was taking so long. Director Jeff Killip, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.cal-osha.com/flash-report/dosh-chief-resigns/\">left his post in January\u003c/a>, replied that the pandemic had “diverted our focus,” and the standards board would soon be ready to begin formal rulemaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board, which the governor appoints, kicked off that process in March 2023. Its vote of approval, along with the Department of Finance’s approval of the economic impact document, is among the last steps that are still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Tim Shadix, legal director, Warehouse Worker Resource Center\"]‘The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness. We would like to see it in place for the summer.’[/pullquote]During a public hearing last May, workers pleaded with the board to adopt the rule without further delay. But for the past year, the rule has undergone three more revisions requiring a new public comment period each time, the last of which ended in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past year, employers have pushed to exempt businesses where workers are only briefly inside a truck, trailer or storage shed. Business groups such as the California Farm Bureau remain upset that the latest exemption doesn’t apply if it’s hotter than 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The temperature in those spaces is going to exceed 95 degrees for much of the year,” said the bureau’s director of labor affairs, Bryan Little. “It’s just not going to be very useful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of revisions is unusual compared to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/apprvd.html\">dozens of other\u003c/a> workplace safety rules approved since 2017. Of those, which ranged from regulations narrowly targeted at a single industry to a wider COVID-19 prevention standard, only one other rule — on protective equipment for firefighters — has undergone as many board revisions as indoor heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ groups are concerned about how the rule will be enforced, with Cal/OSHA currently without a director and suffering vacancy rates of one-third, and the rule only allowing workers’ representatives into unionized worksites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Shadix of the warehouse workers’ center said he just wants to see a rule adopted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The clock was ticking on the deadline, and of course, the clock is ticking every day for workers in terms of exposure to heat illness,” he said. “We would like to see it in place for the summer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Excessive heat can cause nausea, vomiting, fainting, and, in the most extreme cases, heat stroke, leading to organ damage or death. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">seven workers died\u003c/a> from indoor heat from 2010 through 2017. In recent years, summer temperatures \u003ca href=\"https://ktla.com/news/local-news/these-southern-california-temperatures-are-now-the-highest-ever-recorded/\">across southern California\u003c/a> have broken historical records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon disputed the citation and said it is appealing. It said that its San Bernardino air hub is air-conditioned, workers are encouraged to take breaks, and the company generally supports an indoor heat standard. It declined to comment on the state’s proposed rule. “We’ve seen the positive impacts of an effective heat mitigation program and believe all employers should be held to the same standard as we have proactively set,” company spokesperson Maureen Lynch Vogel wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To understand why a state rule has taken so long — even with lives at stake — is to take a journey through the byzantine world of administrative rulemaking in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters review found:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The 2016 law gave \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> the option to adopt an indoor heat rule targeted at certain industries, but the agency wrote a broad one, prompting immediate pushback from a wide swath of employers;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Cal/OSHA advisory committee took employer and worker input and drafted a rule by the 2019 deadline, but it had to be submitted to a little-known state workplace safety board for approval;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>During the pandemic, that safety board, part of the understaffed Department of Industrial Relations, was focused on emergency COVID-19 prevention rules;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Before any vote could happen, the rule triggered a requirement in state law for an economic impact study;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The state hired two different contractors to complete the economic assessment and didn’t submit the final study until September 2021;\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>After another year-plus of “detailed consultation” with other agencies, the safety board started its own rulemaking process in March 2023. Still, there have been four public comment periods since — more than most other recent regulations.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/oshsb/oshsb.html\">Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board\u003c/a> is expected to give final approval to the rule at its March 21 meeting, making California the third state with indoor heat protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Neither advocates for workers nor employers are satisfied with the proposed rule. Workers want to require lower temperatures. Employers said the rule is too complicated, conflicts with the outdoor heat rule and is too broad to apply to vastly different indoor workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hard part about this regulation for California employers has been trying to find language that works equally well for an office building, a restaurant kitchen and a storage shed,” said Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers’ advocates said their top priority now is to get a rule on the books without further delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without the indoor rule, workers complaining of heat at the Amazon warehouse last summer asked Cal/OSHA to inspect inside under a general rule requiring safe workplaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The humidity inside the building was unbearable,” said former air hub employee Sara Fee, who helped file the complaint along with the San Bernardino-based Warehouse Worker Resource Center, where she now works. “You felt heavy in your chest like it was hard to breathe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hauling packages in and out of truck trailers was the hottest task. The metal containers sitting in the sun easily climbed above 100 degrees, Fee said, and even with air conditioners in the warehouse and fans near the trucks, the trailers “feel like a sauna” with workers in “constant motion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976716\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"An older white woman with a plaid shirt on a black tshirt and a black truckers hat with a map behind her and looking at the camera with a slight smile. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/021324_Sara-Fee_EF_04-CM-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inland Empire Amazon Workers United founder Sara Fee in front of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center in Ontario on Feb 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Elisa Ferrari for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The heat that comes from the trailer almost knocks you over,” Fee said. “We had fans you could turn around and face into the trailers, but you might as well be standing there with a straw in your mouth blowing air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency found no evidence of safety violations indoors, according to the citation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon is appealing the outdoor citations and disputed claims about hot working conditions both inside and outside the 660,000-square-foot KSBD facility at San Bernardino International Airport, where about 1,400 workers carry cargo off arriving planes, sort them with the help of large robots and load them onto truck trailers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Amazon spokesperson Lynch Vogel said the facility is fully air-conditioned — unlike many others in the distribution industry — and never hotter than 78 degrees inside. “There’s simply no truth to claims that KSBD workers are working in extreme temperatures indoors,” she wrote in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Tim Shadix, legal director of the Warehouse Worker Resource Center, said he suspects the lack of an indoor heat rule made it more difficult to issue violations inside the warehouse. The prior summer, workers wearing thermometers inside the warehouse and truck trailers reported temperatures of between 75 and 96 degrees and between 80 and 121 on the tarmac — \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-09-21/amazon-heat-wave-california-work\">a report that\u003c/a> Amazon also disputed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a clear standard would give more clear indication to employers to take more proactive steps, and if there’s still a need for citations, having explicit standards that are required to be followed will make that process a clearer path for Cal/OSHA,” Shadix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A long, hot history\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though recent heat waves have made the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/07/workplace-injuries-rising-temperatures/\">risks of hot workplaces\u003c/a> top-of-mind for policymakers, workers have been pushing for protections for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers in factories and even libraries in Southern California were petitioning the state for a general heat standard — indoors and outdoors — as early as the 1980s, said Kevin Riley, director of the Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program at UCLA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The library branches didn’t have air conditioning yet, and (librarians) got sick in the stacks,” he said. “Then in the subsequent decade or two, a lot of those spaces became air-conditioned.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2005, the heat-related deaths of four farmworkers prompted California to adopt an outdoor heat illness prevention rule, which requires shade and water when the temperature hits 80 degrees and, for farming and construction work, additional breaks and monitoring when it hits 95. It was the first such rule in the nation; a 2021 study \u003ca href=\"https://docs.iza.org/dp14560.pdf\">suggested it has helped (PDF)\u003c/a> to decrease workplace injuries on hot days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other workers, such as those in the newly booming warehouses of the High Desert and Inland Empire, took up the cause of an indoor heat rule. In 2011, a union representing workers at a Lancaster warehouse secured heat protections in its contract with Rite Aid, but union president Luisa Gratz said as the climate gets hotter, workers need stronger protections in state law, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976719\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976719\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/022024-Amazon-Warehouse-REUTERS-SH-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers load packages into electric trucks at an Amazon facility in Poway on Nov. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/REUTERS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Teamsters secured a contract with UPS that averted a nationwide strike and that, besides higher pay, included air conditioning in delivery trucks for drivers and additional fans, ice machines and water fountains in buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WRA1386-1.html\">20 workers died\u003c/a> from heat illness between 2010 and 2017, seven of them because of indoor heat, according to the Rand Corp., which analyzed the state’s proposed indoor heat rules. Workers compensation data analyzed by Cal/OSHA show between 2010 and 2018 — the hottest decade on record — an average of 185 workers a year claimed injuries from indoor heat, a figure that was rising, and nearly 20% of all workplace heat injuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency only recently began separately counting safety complaints that mention indoor heat; it received 194 such complaints in 2022 and 549 last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those most likely to experience injuries are younger and male, a likely indication of who is working in industries with the most heat exposure, said Amy Heinzerling, chief of the Emerging Workplace Hazards Unit at the California Department of Public Health. Nearly 10% were injured within the first two weeks on the job, Heinzerling found in another study, highlighting the importance of “gradually increasing worker exposure to hot conditions and really keeping a close eye on them for signs of heat illness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, former state Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/connie-leyva-1967/\">Connie Leyva\u003c/a>, a labor-friendly Democrat from the Inland Empire, introduced the bill for Cal/OSHA to develop an indoor heat rule. It was a direct response to reports of workers falling ill from heat in warehouses concentrated in her district, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She initially wanted the rule to take effect in 2017 and said in a recent interview she “had no idea that it would take this long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did expect it to happen right away,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Delays in rulemaking\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Cal/OSHA’s indoor heat advisory committee began meeting to draft the rule in February 2017, a wide range of employers pushed back immediately, some questioning the need for an indoor rule at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee met over the next two years, going back and forth on the temperature and whether to consider other factors, such as workers’ activity level and humidity levels in the workplace. Worker advocates wanted an across-the-board 80-degree threshold, while some employers called for stricter protections to kick in only at 95 degrees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2019, the agency had a draft proposal ready for the workplace safety board to kick off formal rulemaking — a process that can be as short as a few months and as long as one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s where the delays really began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the rule would have at least $50 million in economic impact, a 2011 state law required a study to be submitted to the Department of Finance. The requirement has irked labor advocates, who argue workplace regulations are already subject to vetting. The Cal/OSHA advisory committee on indoor heat met three times and revised a draft rule seven times before submitting it to the safety board, which also takes comments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>California’s fast-food workers have a new union to advocate for higher pay and safer working conditions, organizers announced Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thousands of workers statewide will be able to join the California Fast Food Workers Union, an organization that will likely represent a small share of workers but advocate for all fast-food employees in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization doesn’t have the same \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-fast-food-bill-tests-labor-laws/\">collective bargaining \u003c/a>power of traditional unions, but it will be affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, a traditional union that represents workers in various industries and for more than a decade has fought to raise pay at fast-food restaurants. Recently it helped secure a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/09/minimum-wage-california/\">$20-an-hour \u003c/a>minimum wage for all fast-food workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president, Service Employees International Union\"]‘Today is a historic day … The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.’[/pullquote]“Today is a historic day in the launching of the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. fast-food workers union,” said Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union. “The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who join will pay $20 monthly in membership dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union won’t be able to negotiate contracts with individual employers, but it will be able to advocate for better working conditions across the industry through a recently created statewide fast-food council in a process similar to typical union bargaining, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Service Employees International Union won a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">major victory\u003c/a> with the passage of a law that created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/california-fast-food-council-2/\">fast-food labor council \u003c/a>that will set working conditions and standards in California and increase the minimum wage for fast workers to $20 starting in April. The fast-food council will elect representatives and begin meeting by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint 11 representatives to the council, including fast-food workers and restaurant industry representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fast-food-workers-sign-up-in-la\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast-food workers sign up in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers from across the state gathered at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee’s Phoenix Hall on Friday in Los Angeles to learn about their new union, begin the sign-up process and discuss potential priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers were enthusiastic about how the union could support them in solving a range of issues they deal with, because they’ve already seen change with their involvement in the national Fight for $15 movement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The Fight for $15 launched in 2012 when 200 fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City to demand $15 an hour and union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways the new union is a formalization of the work the Fight for $15 movement has been doing for years, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Fight for $15, workers advocated for the 2016 law that set California on a path to a $15 minimum wage and they pushed to create the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically Fight for $15 has used tactics like doing one-day strikes and other actions on employers, as well as pushing for public policy that benefits fast-food workers,” Jacobs said. “I expect the fast-food workers union to do very similar sorts of actions. The change here is to codify this into a membership organization where workers are paying dues. It’s their organization, and they are formally part of the Service Employees International Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of union, often called a minority union, is not unusual, he said. Another example of a minority union is the Communication Workers of America’s \u003ca href=\"https://cwad9.org/workplaces/t-mobile\">union for T-Mobile workers\u003c/a>, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fast-food workers will have a unique opportunity to implement desired changes through the fast-food council, a mechanism that other minority unions don’t have, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing mostly purple shirts celebrates and applauds. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers applaud a panel lead by Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of SEIU, at the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, a McDonald’s worker, said the new union is the culmination of years of effort. She said her involvement in organizing with the Fight for $15 campaign had already improved conditions at work, and that with the new union, employers will be less likely to retaliate or push back against employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years,” she said. “That’s what we’re celebrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chain restaurants are notoriously difficult to unionize because of high employee turnover and because the restaurant corporations are often not direct employers of the workers. Even when restaurants are able to unionize, such as Starbucks stores, corporations often employ delay tactics that make bargaining difficult, like shutting down stores, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, McDonald’s worker\"]‘Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years. That’s what we’re celebrating.’[/pullquote]“Is the endgame to build enough power in the industry to try to win collective bargaining, or to build and strengthen the fast-food worker council and ultimately have some form of sectoral bargaining through the state?” Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said gaining and keeping strong union membership will also be challenging.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryant said the union’s goal is simple: to make restaurants safe and sustainable places to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an economic justice fight, a racial justice fight,” he said. “We feel today marks a new chapter in being able to lift the standards for so many families throughout California who are primarily Black, Brown and female.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-restaurants-warn-of-higher-costs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Restaurants warn of higher costs\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Critics say this is a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocregister.com/2024/02/09/the-seius-fake-fast-food-union/\">publicity stunt\u003c/a> and that the union will struggle to gain members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Saltsman, managing director of the Employment Policies Institute, called the California Fast Food Workers Union a “face-saving exercise” by the Service Employees International Union. The institute, based in Washington DC, has argued for lower minimum wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975229,news_11974073,news_11962737\"]The Service Employees International Union “needs something to show for the significant investments it has made in California and nationally, even if this new creation is primarily a lobbying and public relations vehicle,” Saltsman said. “However, it’s unclear who or what this new group speaks for, outside of Service Employees International Union leadership or the small number of aligned employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saltsman added, the union ensures the likelihood that at least four seats on the fast-food council — two seats for workers and two for worker representatives — are controlled by the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wage increases for workers will likely lead to higher prices for consumers, said Jeff Hanscom, vice president of state and local government relations for the International Franchise Association, which represents restaurant chains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local restaurant owners are pillars of their communities and proud of their commitment to employees, including the new $20/hour wage increase starting April 1,” he said in a statement. “However, that increase will add about $250,000 to the operating cost of each restaurant. Food prices will have to go up, customers will feel it, and restaurant owners will look for other ways to manage the additional cost while also keeping their small businesses afloat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-what-workers-want\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">What workers want\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite a strong turnout at Friday’s event, workers said there’s still a lot more work to do to bring other employees on board because many of their colleagues express fears of retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people are scared,” Lopez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste Perez, a Burger King worker in San José, said she signed up to be a union member days ago without thinking twice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s worth it,” she said. “We don’t have anything: health insurance, paid vacation. We don’t see our loved ones enough. We just work all day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers outlined a few priorities for the union: In addition to annual wage increases and seeking better work schedules, the union plans to introduce local ordinances in San José and Los Angeles to strengthen job protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975345\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975345\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg\" alt='A banner that says \"Fast Food Justice Ahora [Now]\" ' width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00113-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banner outside the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gloria Gonzalez, a Subway employee, said she feels confident the new union will offer strong support and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we have violence at work, I know they’re going to support us in the protections we fight for. We have a lot of things we want to accomplish,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez said a priority for her will be consistent wage increases. While she’s grateful for the $20 wage increase, she knows it won’t keep up with the rising cost of living in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with a formal union, workers said they’re hopeful their hesitant colleagues will sign up too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we started, we were very few,” Gonzalez said. “Maybe people will lose some fear because they see that nothing happens to us when we organize.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Today is a historic day in the launching of the first-of-its-kind in the U.S. fast-food workers union,” said Joseph Bryant, international executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union. “The idea of it is to really build the voices by bringing hundreds and eventually thousands of workers together to be able to make demands, to be able to ensure they are getting treated with the respect and dignity they deserve.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers who join will pay $20 monthly in membership dues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union won’t be able to negotiate contracts with individual employers, but it will be able to advocate for better working conditions across the industry through a recently created statewide fast-food council in a process similar to typical union bargaining, organizers said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year the Service Employees International Union won a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/09/california-fast-food-deal/\">major victory\u003c/a> with the passage of a law that created a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2024/01/california-fast-food-council-2/\">fast-food labor council \u003c/a>that will set working conditions and standards in California and increase the minimum wage for fast workers to $20 starting in April. The fast-food council will elect representatives and begin meeting by March 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislative leaders and Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint 11 representatives to the council, including fast-food workers and restaurant industry representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-fast-food-workers-sign-up-in-la\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fast-food workers sign up in LA\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of workers from across the state gathered at the Watts Labor Community Action Committee’s Phoenix Hall on Friday in Los Angeles to learn about their new union, begin the sign-up process and discuss potential priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers were enthusiastic about how the union could support them in solving a range of issues they deal with, because they’ve already seen change with their involvement in the national Fight for $15 movement.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>The Fight for $15 launched in 2012 when 200 fast-food workers walked off the job in New York City to demand $15 an hour and union representation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In many ways the new union is a formalization of the work the Fight for $15 movement has been doing for years, said Ken Jacobs, co-chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Fight for $15, workers advocated for the 2016 law that set California on a path to a $15 minimum wage and they pushed to create the fast-food council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically Fight for $15 has used tactics like doing one-day strikes and other actions on employers, as well as pushing for public policy that benefits fast-food workers,” Jacobs said. “I expect the fast-food workers union to do very similar sorts of actions. The change here is to codify this into a membership organization where workers are paying dues. It’s their organization, and they are formally part of the Service Employees International Union.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of union, often called a minority union, is not unusual, he said. Another example of a minority union is the Communication Workers of America’s \u003ca href=\"https://cwad9.org/workplaces/t-mobile\">union for T-Mobile workers\u003c/a>, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the fast-food workers will have a unique opportunity to implement desired changes through the fast-food council, a mechanism that other minority unions don’t have, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11975344\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11975344\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd wearing mostly purple shirts celebrates and applauds. \" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/020924_FAST_FOOD_UNION_JAH_CM_00618-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers applaud a panel lead by Joseph Bryant, executive vice president of SEIU, at the California Fast Food Workers Union membership launch in Los Angeles on Feb. 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Jules Hotz for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Maria Rosalva Najera Lopez, a McDonald’s worker, said the new union is the culmination of years of effort. She said her involvement in organizing with the Fight for $15 campaign had already improved conditions at work, and that with the new union, employers will be less likely to retaliate or push back against employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Finally we’ve accomplished what we’ve been fighting for for so many years,” she said. “That’s what we’re celebrating.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chain restaurants are notoriously difficult to unionize because of high employee turnover and because the restaurant corporations are often not direct employers of the workers. Even when restaurants are able to unionize, such as Starbucks stores, corporations often employ delay tactics that make bargaining difficult, like shutting down stores, Jacobs said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But some business groups and local governments want to pump the brakes, citing worries about potential fraud or abuse of the workers’ compensation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation that some people could take advantage of a more open workers’ compensation system should not deter California from providing immediate access to mental health treatment to those who need it, said Farren, who noted that many of the first responders she works with are denied workers’ compensation coverage or have to go through many steps to get it approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shouldn’t keep us from getting help to those who really need it. That help should be available often, and affordably, and it should be available immediately,” Farren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perceptions about employers’ responsibility for alleviating work-related mental stress have changed over time, and that’s showing up in workers’ compensation. 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But some business groups and local governments want to pump the brakes, citing worries about potential fraud or abuse of the workers’ compensation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegation that some people could take advantage of a more open workers’ compensation system should not deter California from providing immediate access to mental health treatment to those who need it, said Farren, who noted that many of the first responders she works with are denied workers’ compensation coverage or have to go through many steps to get it approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shouldn’t keep us from getting help to those who really need it. That help should be available often, and affordably, and it should be available immediately,” Farren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perceptions about employers’ responsibility for alleviating work-related mental stress have changed over time, and that’s showing up in workers’ compensation. Each state has its own workers’ compensation laws, which provide benefits like disability pay and medical care to workers injured or sickened on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than half \u003ca href=\"https://workcompauto.optum.com/content/owca/owca/en/insights/blog/policy-matters-blog/2021/PTSD-Coverage.html\">have enacted PTSD policies or policy changes since 2018\u003c/a>, according to a 2021 report by Optum, a company that creates workers’ compensation programs. Coverage varies widely for post-traumatic stress injuries, which can be triggered by a single traumatic event or continued exposure to high stress and traumatic events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation to give California firefighters and police officers a stronger chance at earning workers’ compensation. The bill, \u003ca href=\"https://www.firerescue1.com/legislation-funding/articles/new-calif-law-lets-first-responders-seek-workers-comp-for-ptsd-N6kxZ0pCyRnz8AOQ/\">SB 542\u003c/a>, authored by state Sen. Henry Stern (D-Calabasas), changed state law so that post-traumatic stress “injury,” such as PTSD, is legally presumed to be work-related for those first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a small step by lawmakers in a state where recognition of work-related injuries for workers’ compensation has typically been limited to physical illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Previously, psychiatric conditions were handled differently, with employers and insurance companies long contending that psychological injuries can have many sources and might be too easy to blame on work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the Rand Corp. suggested in a 2021 report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RBA1391-1.html\">further study is needed to evaluate the financial toll the 2019 law has had on employers\u003c/a> — particularly counties and other municipalities that pay for police, firefighters and other first responders. Rand researchers estimated the added costs for local governments and the state to cover post-traumatic stress injuries could rise from $20 million to $116 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters and police in most cases now no longer have to prove that work was mostly responsible for their PTSD. But the law sunsets in 2025 and excludes many other first responders, including dispatchers, paramedics and first responders at state hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, legislation by state Sen. John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB623\">SB 623\u003c/a>, co-sponsored by an advocacy group representing firefighters in the state — California Professional Firefighters — would extend PTSD workers’ compensation coverage until 2032 and open it up to state firefighters, additional law enforcement officers, public safety dispatchers and other emergency response communication employees who work for public agencies. The Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee unanimously approved the bill in April, and it is awaiting a vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Business groups and local governments — many of which opposed the 2019 law — are lobbying against more expansion. In letters to lawmakers, groups including the California Chamber of Commerce, California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation, California Hospital Association, and California State Association of Counties warned that pending legislation could “open the door to abuse and fraud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no evidence that workers are being inappropriately denied the care or benefits that they need,” Virginia Drake, spokesperson for the California Coalition on Workers’ Compensation, told KFF Health News. The group represents employers, cities and counties, insurance brokers and government agencies on issues of workers’ compensation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislation that would extend benefits to more first responders would “put taxpayer funds at risk by tying the hands of public employers and forcing them to pay even the most questionable claims,” she added in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, there does not seem to be consensus on which emergency personnel should get covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A measure by Assemblymember Freddie Rodriguez, a Democrat from Chino who worked as an emergency medical technician for three decades, has stalled. AB 597 would expand workers’ compensation coverage to paramedics and emergency medical technicians, but it didn’t get a hearing in the Assembly. Unions representing paramedics and EMTs in California did not return messages seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very stressful job,” said Rodriguez, who told KFF Health News that two of his paramedic friends had died by suicide. “It affects people differently.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clearing a path to speedy mental health recovery, particularly after traumatic incidents, “should be automatic,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear whether Newsom will back Laird’s bill extending coverage for groups of emergency responders, amid a \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/qa-what-does-the-projected-budget-shortfall-mean-for-california/\">projected $22.5 billion deficit\u003c/a>. A spokesperson for his office, Omar Rodriguez, said the governor typically does not comment on pending legislation and “will evaluate the bills on their own merits if they reach his desk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the Democratic governor \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SB-284-VETO.pdf?emrc=765aa9\">vetoed similar legislation (PDF)\u003c/a>, saying in a statement that it would be premature to shift coverage of PTSD before any studies had been conducted on how the current law has worked for those who are covered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broadening coverage, Newsom wrote, “could set a dangerous precedent that has the potential to destabilize the workers’ compensation system going forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She began collecting the stories of hundreds of rideshare drivers who felt they were being treated unfairly by the companies they worked for. Murphy and others at Gig Workers Rising came across several GoFundMe pages for rideshare drivers who died while driving and delivering food. The families of the drivers were searching for answers and compensation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">recently released report, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gig Workers Rising found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.gigsafetynow.com/_files/ugd/af5398_87e49dc58be84bff9cd94076bafe5004.pdf\">over 50 rideshare and delivery drivers were killed\u003c/a> from 2017 to February 2022 in the United States. 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These workers aren’t afforded the important legal protections that they deserve.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major gig companies have responded to requests for comment from KQED by focusing on the safety features the apps provide drivers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Uber spokesperson highlighted the company’s “in-app emergency button with 911 integration, Follow My Ride location sharing” and a new function that allows riders and drivers to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/newsroom/always-looking-out/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">record audio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the ride if either party feels unsafe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julian Crowley, a spokesperson for DoorDash, said “while negative incidents are incredibly rare, we’re constantly working to improve safety for all those who use our platform.” He pointed out that like Uber, DoorDash has an in-app emergency button.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.adt.com/news-releases/news-release-details/doordash-partners-adt-help-protect-its-community-millions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DoorDash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyft-launches-emergency-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have partnered with security company ADT to offer safety features within their respective apps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11895066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men holding signs and two women, one wearing purple and holding a microphone and one woman holding a sign are standing in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherri Murphy, with Gig Workers Rising, speaks outside DoorDash headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2021, demanding fair pay and employee rights for gig workers and rideshare and delivery drivers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was the only company to claim there were inaccuracies in the Gig Workers Rising report, specifically in the case of Salauddin Bablu, a Grubhub driver who was killed in Manhattan in October during a carjacking attack. The report claims Bablu’s family “only received sympathies” from the food delivery company, but a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spokesperson said the company offered the family financial support “for the amount they requested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was not legally obligated to financially compensate Bablu’s family because he was not “online” at the time of the incident, and therefore not working for the company at that time. Similarly, when Uber driver \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/18/uber-driver-murder-arrest-ahmad-fawad-yusufi-clifford-lavern-stokes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahmad Fawad Yusufi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an Afghan refugee, was fatally shot in San Francisco’s Mission District while napping in his car between trips, Uber did not offer compensation to Yufusi’s family because he was offline at the time of the incident.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have long known, for over a century, that\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [transportation]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a dangerous sector,” said Professor Veena Dubal, a labor expert from UC Hastings. “Whether it’s because you’re getting into accidents or because you’re held up at gunpoint or because your body is constantly in the car.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 report \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf\">transportation-related incidents have been the most common work injury since 2016\u003c/a>. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration deemed taxi driving to be one of the most dangerous professions in the country, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.taxi-library.org/osha_fact_sheet.htm\">taxi drivers are 60 times more likely to be murdered on the job\u003c/a> compared to other workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It makes sense that this danger translates to people who are doing similar work, like food delivery work, transportation and ride-hailing work,” Dubal said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But unlike taxi drivers, who have unionized to receive workers’ compensation if they are injured on the job, rideshare and delivery drivers for gig companies like DoorDash, Lyft and Uber are considered independent contractors and therefore ineligible for traditional workers’ compensation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Companies play in the gray of Proposition 22\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Proposition 22, a ballot proposition that solidified the classification of gig workers as independent contractors, was passed overwhelmingly by California voters in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gig companies including Uber and Lyft lobbied heavily, pouring almost $200 million\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">into the campaign to pass the measure, making Prop. 22 the most expensive ballot measure in California history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Dubal, rideshare workers occasionally received workers’ compensation if they were injured on the job before the law was passed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There have been workers all over the country who have applied for workers’ compensation based on injuries that they had sustained while on the job and claimed that they were employees,” Dubal said. “They had been misclassified by their employer and received it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the controversial ballot measure passed, it has been harder for gig workers who have been injured on the job to receive workers’ compensation. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled the law was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046905/prop-22-unconstitutional.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“unconstitutional” and “unenforceable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The law’s constitutionality is currently being debated in other courts, specifically around the limited kinds of workers’ compensation the law provides gig workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer supporting a yes vote on Proposition 22 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer suggesting riders ask him why he supports Proposition 22, in Oakland on October 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Limited forms of coverage\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keshon, who asked KQED not to use his last name for safety reasons, had enjoyed working for DoorDash while going to school in San Diego. One night in August, he picked up an order from Jack in the Box and was driving to deliver it when he was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/doordash-driver-shot-in-face-in-linda-vista/2697966/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shot in the face \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and crashed into a traffic signal pole. The San Diego Police say his case is still open and they have made no arrests. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are fragments of bullets still in my nephew’s head,” said Jasimine StokesOliver, Keshon’s aunt and a former DoorDash driver. “I don’t know if those things are going to affect him later.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop. 22 promises that gig companies would offer contractors “occupational accident insurance” to cover medical expenses and lost income in the case of injuries sustained while on the job. The insurance only goes so far, and many companies, including DoorDash, do not require drivers to opt into the insurance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop. 22 also requires companies to cover medical bills up to $1 million — in contrast to the state’s system, which requires companies to cover all medical bills \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for injuries sustained on the job\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, no matter how expensive. The law also requires companies to offer disability payments for up to two years. For non-gig workers, companies could be required to offer disability payments for the rest of a worker’s life, according to California law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to StokesOliver, DoorDash covered Keshon’s medical expenses and gave him about $300 a week for two months — half of what he would have made if he hadn’t been bedridden. DoorDash did not cover the damages to Keshon’s car, which was totaled in the accident. \u003c/span>[aside postID=news_11907530 label='More On Gig Workers']\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Prop. 22, gig companies do not have to cover damages to a driver’s car, and it’s up to the company to set its rules. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/driver/insurance\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft’s insurance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, for example, covers damage to a car up to its actual cash value, if the driver already has comprehensive and collision coverage. Uber’s insurance covers physical damage to the car, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/insurance/\">regardless of who is at fault\u003c/a>.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StokesOliver herself narrowly avoided an assault while driving for DoorDash.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As I bent over to arrange [the food] at the door, I saw the gun in his hand,” StokesOliver said of the stranger who followed her to the door. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She pulled out her phone and said she had to take a picture of the order and send it to DoorDash. She said once the man saw her phone, he pulled the gun away and left. StokesOliver was horrified and hurried back to her car. Her 10-year-old son was in the back seat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As she drove away, StokesOliver kept the app open and ignored alerts to move to the next order until she felt safe enough to report the incident. StokesOliver said she was assured the company would look into what happened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was hoping they would send the police to that address,” StokesOliver said. “They never contacted me to tell me that they notified the police or [encouraged me] to make a police report. There was just none of that.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StokesOliver left gig work soon after. She feels unsafe because of the lack of protections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>“\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was now time for me to protect my 10-year-old and make sure that he can make it to his teens,” StokesOliver said. “I don’t want those types of violences affecting him and his lifestyle.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The killings are the tip of the iceberg,” said Murphy. “Thousands are getting into car accidents, they’re being sexually assaulted, physically assaulted and emotionally accosted. These workers aren’t afforded the important legal protections that they deserve.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Major gig companies have responded to requests for comment from KQED by focusing on the safety features the apps provide drivers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">An Uber spokesperson highlighted the company’s “in-app emergency button with 911 integration, Follow My Ride location sharing” and a new function that allows riders and drivers to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/newsroom/always-looking-out/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">record audio\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> during the ride if either party feels unsafe. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Julian Crowley, a spokesperson for DoorDash, said “while negative incidents are incredibly rare, we’re constantly working to improve safety for all those who use our platform.” He pointed out that like Uber, DoorDash has an in-app emergency button.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://news.adt.com/news-releases/news-release-details/doordash-partners-adt-help-protect-its-community-millions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">DoorDash\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/blog/posts/lyft-launches-emergency-help\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">also \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have partnered with security company ADT to offer safety features within their respective apps.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11895066\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11895066\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two men holding signs and two women, one wearing purple and holding a microphone and one woman holding a sign are standing in front of a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/11/RS52362_002_SanFrancisco_GigWorkerProtest_11032021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cherri Murphy, with Gig Workers Rising, speaks outside DoorDash headquarters in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2021, demanding fair pay and employee rights for gig workers and rideshare and delivery drivers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was the only company to claim there were inaccuracies in the Gig Workers Rising report, specifically in the case of Salauddin Bablu, a Grubhub driver who was killed in Manhattan in October during a carjacking attack. The report claims Bablu’s family “only received sympathies” from the food delivery company, but a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> spokesperson said the company offered the family financial support “for the amount they requested.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grubhub was not legally obligated to financially compensate Bablu’s family because he was not “online” at the time of the incident, and therefore not working for the company at that time. Similarly, when Uber driver \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/12/18/uber-driver-murder-arrest-ahmad-fawad-yusufi-clifford-lavern-stokes/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ahmad Fawad Yusufi\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, an Afghan refugee, was fatally shot in San Francisco’s Mission District while napping in his car between trips, Uber did not offer compensation to Yufusi’s family because he was offline at the time of the incident.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have long known, for over a century, that\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> [transportation]\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is a dangerous sector,” said Professor Veena Dubal, a labor expert from UC Hastings. “Whether it’s because you’re getting into accidents or because you’re held up at gunpoint or because your body is constantly in the car.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2020 report \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf\">transportation-related incidents have been the most common work injury since 2016\u003c/a>. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration deemed taxi driving to be one of the most dangerous professions in the country, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.taxi-library.org/osha_fact_sheet.htm\">taxi drivers are 60 times more likely to be murdered on the job\u003c/a> compared to other workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It makes sense that this danger translates to people who are doing similar work, like food delivery work, transportation and ride-hailing work,” Dubal said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But unlike taxi drivers, who have unionized to receive workers’ compensation if they are injured on the job, rideshare and delivery drivers for gig companies like DoorDash, Lyft and Uber are considered independent contractors and therefore ineligible for traditional workers’ compensation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Companies play in the gray of Proposition 22\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California Proposition 22, a ballot proposition that solidified the classification of gig workers as independent contractors, was passed overwhelmingly by California voters in 2020. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gig companies including Uber and Lyft lobbied heavily, pouring almost $200 million\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">into the campaign to pass the measure, making Prop. 22 the most expensive ballot measure in California history. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Dubal, rideshare workers occasionally received workers’ compensation if they were injured on the job before the law was passed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There have been workers all over the country who have applied for workers’ compensation based on injuries that they had sustained while on the job and claimed that they were employees,” Dubal said. “They had been misclassified by their employer and received it.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the controversial ballot measure passed, it has been harder for gig workers who have been injured on the job to receive workers’ compensation. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch ruled the law was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21046905/prop-22-unconstitutional.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“unconstitutional” and “unenforceable.”\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The law’s constitutionality is currently being debated in other courts, specifically around the limited kinds of workers’ compensation the law provides gig workers.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11843323\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11843323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg\" alt=\"Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer supporting a yes vote on Proposition 22 in Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-800x538.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1020x685.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/YesOn22Driver.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uber driver Sergei Fyodorov holds a flyer suggesting riders ask him why he supports Proposition 22, in Oakland on October 2020. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Limited forms of coverage\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keshon, who asked KQED not to use his last name for safety reasons, had enjoyed working for DoorDash while going to school in San Diego. One night in August, he picked up an order from Jack in the Box and was driving to deliver it when he was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/doordash-driver-shot-in-face-in-linda-vista/2697966/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">shot in the face \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and crashed into a traffic signal pole. The San Diego Police say his case is still open and they have made no arrests. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“There are fragments of bullets still in my nephew’s head,” said Jasimine StokesOliver, Keshon’s aunt and a former DoorDash driver. “I don’t know if those things are going to affect him later.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop. 22 promises that gig companies would offer contractors “occupational accident insurance” to cover medical expenses and lost income in the case of injuries sustained while on the job. The insurance only goes so far, and many companies, including DoorDash, do not require drivers to opt into the insurance.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prop. 22 also requires companies to cover medical bills up to $1 million — in contrast to the state’s system, which requires companies to cover all medical bills \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">for injuries sustained on the job\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, no matter how expensive. The law also requires companies to offer disability payments for up to two years. For non-gig workers, companies could be required to offer disability payments for the rest of a worker’s life, according to California law.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to StokesOliver, DoorDash covered Keshon’s medical expenses and gave him about $300 a week for two months — half of what he would have made if he hadn’t been bedridden. DoorDash did not cover the damages to Keshon’s car, which was totaled in the accident. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under Prop. 22, gig companies do not have to cover damages to a driver’s car, and it’s up to the company to set its rules. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lyft.com/driver/insurance\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lyft’s insurance\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, for example, covers damage to a car up to its actual cash value, if the driver already has comprehensive and collision coverage. Uber’s insurance covers physical damage to the car, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.uber.com/us/en/drive/insurance/\">regardless of who is at fault\u003c/a>.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StokesOliver herself narrowly avoided an assault while driving for DoorDash.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“As I bent over to arrange [the food] at the door, I saw the gun in his hand,” StokesOliver said of the stranger who followed her to the door. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">She pulled out her phone and said she had to take a picture of the order and send it to DoorDash. She said once the man saw her phone, he pulled the gun away and left. StokesOliver was horrified and hurried back to her car. Her 10-year-old son was in the back seat. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">As she drove away, StokesOliver kept the app open and ignored alerts to move to the next order until she felt safe enough to report the incident. StokesOliver said she was assured the company would look into what happened. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was hoping they would send the police to that address,” StokesOliver said. “They never contacted me to tell me that they notified the police or [encouraged me] to make a police report. There was just none of that.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">StokesOliver left gig work soon after. She feels unsafe because of the lack of protections. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alexandria LaRue became a sex worker in 2012, posting photos and videos on Backpage, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/01/10/backpage-com-shuts-down-adult-services-ads-after-relentless-pressure-from-authorities/\">a now-defunct classified advertising website that gained notoriety for its adult-themed content\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost immediately after LaRue — who uses the pronoun “they” — started doing this work, Bank of America closed their account and seized the more than $2,000 that was in it. Bank of America and other large banks \u003ca href=\"https://www.bankofamerica.com/deposits/deposit-holds-faqs/\">are allowed to freeze deposits or entire accounts\u003c/a> if they believe fraud or suspicious activity is occurring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like nothing is a safe space or a safe place, especially when it comes to finances,” LaRue, who posted pornographic videos online, said. “Even though \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/pornography#\">the work I do is 1,000 percent legal\u003c/a>, it doesn’t mean they won’t shut down my account or they won’t take my money away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Backpage started processing payments in cryptocurrency soon after \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/matthewzeitlin/backpagecom-cut-off-from-credit-card-networks\">Visa and Mastercard cut off ties with the website in 2015\u003c/a> as allegations grew that it was complicit in sex trafficking. 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>. Almost half of the respondents said they had their accounts closed or denied by national banks and almost a third were told their account had been closed for a violation of the company’s terms and conditions of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies have a strong profit motive and they’re also risk-averse,” Watson said. “And so the risk of dealing with individuals who work in sex work or in adult professions and businesses is a really strong deterrent for them to actually provide service.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>“This is the future, this is where stuff is going to go”\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>LaRue, also a Chapter Director for SWOP, felt like cryptocurrency was the only way to secure their financial future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just integrated it into part of my life because I knew this is the future, this is where stuff is going to go,” they said. “There was information about it online, of course, and I spent a lot of time on Reddit trying to educate myself on what it is, how it works.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cryptocurrency-focused entrepreneurs saw an underserved market in the adult entertainment industry. 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. You’re banned for life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company held almost $2,000 in her account for six months. Sage had to ask family members for help to cover bills and rent payments. After getting her money back, Sage decided to turn to OnlyFans to post content. She found it easy to use and was pleased to see a specialized payment platform built into the website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It definitely made the whole process of keeping fans engaged, selling them content, interacting with them — it definitely made that process a lot easier and a lot more streamlined,” Sage said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the pandemic hit, Sage’s popularity on OnlyFans skyrocketed and she was able to make a steady income from her channel. But then in August, OnlyFans announced it would have to start banning sexually explicit content because of pressure from credit card companies and banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/OnlyFans/status/1429117407340240902?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sage started looking for other websites she could post her content to. The company reversed its decision six days later, but Sage and other performers no longer trusted the platform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like the rug has been pulled up under us,” she said. “Why are we so disposable as a community? Why are we being discarded like this?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Sage is working to diversify her platforms and post content to other sites. She asks customers to pay her on other financial platforms and keep the memo tab blank so her account doesn’t get flagged. But she’s not ready to switch to crypto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Unfortunately, cryptocurrency is not a convenient payment that everyone is accepting or everyone knows how to use,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>“Crypto is \u003cem>a\u003c/em> solution, not \u003cem>the\u003c/em> solution” \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Allie Knox, a fetish and porn performer, was one of the first performers to accept cryptocurrency payments exclusively and is one of the loudest voices in the sex work cryptocurrency space. She started shooting porn in 2014 and almost immediately got shut out from payment apps including PayPal, Square, Cash App and Stripe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left with no other choice, Knox started using cryptocurrency. She signed up with Coinbase, one of the largest crypto exchange platforms, and quickly became an expert in how to invest in the crypto market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label ='Related Stories' tag='technology']Knox believed in cryptocurrency’s promise to provide financial services to everyone, regardless of their profession, but that belief shattered when CoinBase blocked her account in 2016 for “suspicious activity.” CoinBase has since \u003ca href=\"https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement/united_states#appendix-1-prohibited-use-prohibited-businesses-and-conditional-use\">prohibited the use of accounts connected with adult content and services\u003c/a>, even though the production and distribution of pornography is legal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Technology is never going to solve these social issues and that’s really what this is,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She helped launch SpankChain and now serves as an advisor to the company. 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Race is just one possible trait to evaluate for bias. The same problem could exist for gender, age, ability or any category that is regularly discriminated against.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But while many companies are resistant to collect or share data along these lines, on-demand service apps like DoorDash and Uber don’t even have to gather worker demographic data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of the way they classify their workers. App companies call workers contractors instead of employees. The contractor status also protects these on-demand app service companies from liability if is found that customers are discriminating against any of the workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news that the app rating system is problematic is far from new. Labor advocates have been warning about it since the apps started. In 2016, there was an entire study done by Data & Society titled “\u003ca href=\"https://datasociety.net/pubs/ia/Discriminating_Tastes_Customer_Ratings_as_Vehicles_for_Bias.pdf\">Discriminating Tastes: Customer Ratings as Vehicles for Bias\u003c/a>,” which was co-authored by Alex Rosenblat, who now works for Uber as the Head of Marketplace Policy, Fairness and Research.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What the Companies Say\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED reached out to several major app companies: DoorDash, Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. Only Lyft and DoorDash responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DoorDash PR representatives talked about protocols for kicking overtly racist customers off the app, but didn’t mention anything about a system for detecting or addressing implicit bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from Lyft said the company had commissioned a study to understand the extent of the problem. 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I went from making $200 a day to struggling to make $100,” Salas said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s $100 a day before expenses like gas and wear and tear on her car, while she went to school for radiology and took care of her newborn baby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did she get low ratings because she did something wrong? Were the customers just grumpy? Or did they react negatively to who she is? Salas is part Pacific Islander, part Native American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s kind of a bummer,” Salas said. “I would have wished to know why so I could improve myself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frustrated, Salas reached out to Gig Workers Rising, an advocacy group for app workers. Lead organizer Lauren Casey said she has heard this same story again and again from workers of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casey said, “Their performance at work is held to a different standard and in turn they receive worse ratings.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative from Instacart said it has policies to deal with overt racism, but like other app companies, there’s no mechanism for detecting implicit bias, let alone addressing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>No Data, No Context\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Stanford University law professor Richard Ford said the app rating system has magnified the problem of implicit bias, making it easier for customers to hurt workers and harder for workers to prove it is happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t have context, and you don’t have the interpersonal reactions that might give you some clue that the ratings were based on race,” Ford said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All you have is a number, and given our society’s increasing fetishization of data, Ford said a number without context can be very dangerous. “The difference in today’s environment is that it looks more objective. 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