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"content": "\u003cp>Chaos filled the aisles of Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in the early days of March 2020, before Bay Area health officers issued shelter-in-place orders to slow the spread of COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were freaked out,” said Gordon Edgar, the store’s cheese buyer since 1994. “They were treating it like a natural disaster.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers crammed the 17,500-square-foot San Francisco cooperative, filling carts with toilet paper, flour and durable goods such as canned beans, fearing they would need to stay in their homes for months. Gig-economy proxy shoppers, eyes trained on shopping lists, moved erratically, bumping into other shoppers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were people pulling two or three shopping carts and buying everything they could, to prepare for their survival,” said Cody Frost, a longtime member of Rainbow's marketing department. Through double-paned upstairs office windows, Frost could hear the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A roar, a general roar, especially as the lines kind of creeped back further and further into the store,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow’s normally conscientious customers were freaking out, along with the rest of the world. These were the store’s highest-grossing days of the year, but there was no celebration: The store’s 230 worker-owners had already prioritized something besides money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were looking around like, ‘This is just not safe or healthy,’ ” Edgar said. “We want to protect workers, we want to protect the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other public-facing businesses during the pandemic, Rainbow faced the choice to operate in some form in danger to employees and customers, or to close its doors. But that decision wouldn’t be made at the top. Worker-owned cooperatives operate exactly like democracies: one person, one vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, Rainbow's collectively agreed-on safety measures reflected the values of health and community: constant rearrangement of the physical space, gallons of hand sanitizer, department meetings moved awkwardly semi-online, and most of all, fanatical mask enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878278\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1778\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-800x741.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-1020x945.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-160x148.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Rainbow-Worker-Pickup2-1536x1422.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Rainbow Grocery customer leaves with their order at the co-op's curbside pickup location. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic workplaces may be, in a general sense, unusually adaptable in the face of large-scale emergencies. Research and interviews with worker-owners found their businesses retained and created jobs, fostered community and kept workers and the public safe. They did not generate huge profits, but they created security for everyone in and around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no hierarchy, no management. We all share equal responsibility,” said Heather Farnham, a worker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery for the past 18 years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Candlestick Courier Collective, an on-demand bicycle delivery service, Christopher McCleary explained that as the group transitions to a co-op, “We have a lot more accountability to each other. And to the people we deliver to. And the people we deliver for!” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of worker-owners attend meetings in addition to shift work; it isn’t always easy. But there’s no boss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878463\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1343\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878463\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-800x560.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-160x112.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/McCleary-1536x1074.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher McCleary of the on-demand bicycle delivery service Candlestick Courier Collective makes a delivery. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Customers and Workers Over Profits\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Economic responses to the pandemic at worker-owned companies across the Bay Area included voluntary furloughs, adjusted pay scales, services such as low-volume shopping hours for seniors and other vulnerable customers, and outright temporary shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the pandemic, worker-owned co-op Arizmendi Bakery's location in San Francisco's Inner Sunset had money in the bank — part of its standard cooperative practices. As a result, the bakery’s worker-owners voted to close, with full pay, for two months at the beginning of the state's stay-at-home order. Yet like their sister locations, which chose to remain open, the bakery's Sunset location is thriving today. In a traditional business, that money would likely have been sitting in the owner’s bank account (or in the form of a vacation home).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Heather Farnham, worker-owner at Arizmendi Bakery\"]'We didn’t lay anyone off. We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line'[/pullquote]At Rainbow, worker-owners chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. That service, the store's senior hours, and an in-house-managed online curbside pickup service cost Rainbow a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think grocery stores are making bank,\" Edgar said. \"But we’re not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some points during the pandemic, San Francisco allowed for 50% capacity in grocery stores – but Rainbow’s worker-owners never felt safe with more than 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that has really hit us financially,” Edgar said. “But I don’t think we would change anything we’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the pandemic, worker-owners at San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Protecting Jobs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, California had an unemployment rate of 4.5%. By March 2021, it had soared to 8.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; meaning roughly 3,287,920 people had lost their job. But a common refrain in the Bay Area co-op community makes it sounds possible none of them were members of co-operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t lay anyone off,” Arizmendi's Farnham said, pride in her voice. “We retained all of our workers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a theme among co-opers: Rainbow Grocery grew its workforce during the pandemic. Mandela Grocery Cooperative in West Oakland hired a customer who’d just been laid off from a nearby restaurant. In the South Bay, Kirk Vartan at A Slice of New York pizza co-op said the company likewise made no layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line,” Farnham said. “Part of a cooperative business is that you have this security. It was a really important aspect of riding out something so severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Adrionna Fike, worker-owner at Mandela Grocery Cooperative\"]'That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire.'[/pullquote]Dr. Nathan Schneider, a professor at University of Colorado Boulder, is a scholar of co-operatives. His book \"Everything for Everyone, the Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy\" came out in 2018; the “next economy” referenced is post-2008, not post-pandemic — but it could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been in moments of crisis where co-ops have struggled, but have also really been able to shine,” he said. “Co-ops have demonstrated their capacity to be more resilient, especially in downturns and other crises, than other kinds of businesses, because they focus on what matters in a way that’s just good for long-term health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider’s research shows these pandemic behaviors to be standard among co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-ops are less likely to do layoffs,” he said. “If you’re accountable to capital, of course, workers are expendable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Farnham (left) and Betsy Holwitz work at Arizmendi Bakery's Ninth Avenue location in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Blend of Interdependence and Autonomy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a recent online panel discussion, Mandela worker-owner and Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) board member Adrionna Fike described a web of support among co-ops, not just around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got calls [from other co-ops] saying, ‘What are you doing, can we support you, can you help us?’ ” Mutual aid kept democratic workplaces resilient as they navigated the confusingly dangerous pandemic, she said. So did their cooperative practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow supported Mandela with supplies of hand baskets. Arizmendi asked Mandela to help distribute pizzas in West Oakland – and Candlestick Courier Collective delivers for Arizmendi and other co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire,\" Fike said. \"Autonomy. Creativity. That blend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Arizmendi, Farnham’s version of community building extends outward from the bakery walls. In a time of unprecedented job loss and insecurity, the bakers worried about when to open, and how to transition from a self-service operation to a walk-up window – but they never had to worry about losing their jobs. This, Farnham says, is a selling point. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our customers, a lot of them understand that the dollars that they spend go right back to the workers, who they see and get to know,” Farnham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow, that unprofitable new curbside service is wildly popular. According to Tink Moss, one of the program’s coordinators, “The customers are really, really excited and thankful about it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing a community need, the store plans to form an e-commerce department with an eye to continuing the curbside service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the best response to COVID,” said customer Deborah Baron, as she loaded prepacked bags into her car. “I come here all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support From Local Officials\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bay Area co-ops had fairly positive interactions with local governments during the pandemic. Fike of Mandela Grocery said Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife was helpful via local aid group Community Ready Corps, which purchased batches of prepaid gift cards from Mandela to support those in need and the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city officials including Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s staff and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development were also helpful, Rainbow worker-owners said. Constant communication between the city and the co-op made it possible to keep up with fast-changing health directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other programs encourage worker-owned companies, such as the city of Berkeley's ongoing partnership with Project Equity, a nonprofit dedicated to helping owners sell companies to employees. California is also among a handful of states that support cooperative enterprises via direct policy and budget initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are embracing the worker cooperatives again, and getting our reach, and our ability to serve people and be transformative in our communities,” Fike said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11819661 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Arizmendi-bread-1020x574.jpg']Federal Paycheck Protection Program loans arrived, helped and were forgiven at Arizmendi — the company’s financial stability and its everybody-first attitude allowed use of those funds for payroll, as intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local and state government support of the cooperative model is good, it’s at the federal level that policy change could really have an impact, according to Schneider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can create financial infrastructure to make it so that worker-owners are on the same or better footing than investor-owners,” Schneider said. “We need to set our goals high. The constraints [to widespread worker-owned successes] are federal. When you open the door there, you can get exponential increases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yet-to-be-implemented Main Street Employee Ownership Act, which passed in 2018, would improve access to capital and expand technical assistance for employee-owned businesses through the federal Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy after the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877992/whats-actually-changed-in-california-now-the-state-has-reopened\">June 15 reopening\u003c/a>, Bay Area co-ops are ready to build community, create jobs and make more co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all figured it out together, and that was one of the amazing things about being part of a co-op during this natural disaster,” Arizmendi’s Farnham said, reflecting on the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bakery may be famous for pizza and pastries, but its sibling, Arizmendi Construction, plans to focus on secondary backyard housing units to address the shortage of affordable and below-market housing. Candlestick Courier plans to file papers to legally become a California cooperative corporation. And NoBAWC is restructuring as a nonprofit to get more funding and help more co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rainbow Grocery, the future means getting more shoppers in the store, but it also means extending support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we do more sponsorships and engagements with events and local organizations, as they’re kind of rebuilding and restructuring?” Frost said. “How are we going to be participating with our donations program?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Bay Area co-ops weathered the pandemic with minimal layoffs and a range of creative responses to new business challenges. No bosses or owners directed their decisions, and in crucial terms, they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard from people at other stores where big swaths of workers went down with COVID,” Edgar said. “And that did not happen here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by the City College of San Francisco Journalism Department and the \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/programs-initiatives/programs/democracy-and-the-informed-citizen/\">Democracy and Informed Citizen Emerging Journalist Fellowship\u003c/a> initiative of California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>At Rainbow, worker-owners chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. That service, the store's senior hours, and an in-house-managed online curbside pickup service cost Rainbow a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People think grocery stores are making bank,\" Edgar said. \"But we’re not.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some points during the pandemic, San Francisco allowed for 50% capacity in grocery stores – but Rainbow’s worker-owners never felt safe with more than 25%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All that has really hit us financially,” Edgar said. “But I don’t think we would change anything we’ve done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878479\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1322\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878479\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-800x551.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1020x702.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/RainbowGroceryCart-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">During the pandemic, worker-owners at San Francisco's Rainbow Grocery chose to offer a low-volume, late-night Saturday shopping option for customers too anxious to be in the store otherwise. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Protecting Jobs\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In March 2020, California had an unemployment rate of 4.5%. By March 2021, it had soared to 8.3%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics; meaning roughly 3,287,920 people had lost their job. But a common refrain in the Bay Area co-op community makes it sounds possible none of them were members of co-operatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t lay anyone off,” Arizmendi's Farnham said, pride in her voice. “We retained all of our workers.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a theme among co-opers: Rainbow Grocery grew its workforce during the pandemic. Mandela Grocery Cooperative in West Oakland hired a customer who’d just been laid off from a nearby restaurant. In the South Bay, Kirk Vartan at A Slice of New York pizza co-op said the company likewise made no layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew that we would come out of it still having a job ... that’s what we were focusing on, not the profitability or the bottom line,” Farnham said. “Part of a cooperative business is that you have this security. It was a really important aspect of riding out something so severe.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Dr. Nathan Schneider, a professor at University of Colorado Boulder, is a scholar of co-operatives. His book \"Everything for Everyone, the Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy\" came out in 2018; the “next economy” referenced is post-2008, not post-pandemic — but it could be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been in moments of crisis where co-ops have struggled, but have also really been able to shine,” he said. “Co-ops have demonstrated their capacity to be more resilient, especially in downturns and other crises, than other kinds of businesses, because they focus on what matters in a way that’s just good for long-term health.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schneider’s research shows these pandemic behaviors to be standard among co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Co-ops are less likely to do layoffs,” he said. “If you’re accountable to capital, of course, workers are expendable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11878526\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11878526\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-800x590.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-160x118.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Arizmendi-workers-1536x1133.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heather Farnham (left) and Betsy Holwitz work at Arizmendi Bakery's Ninth Avenue location in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Hiya Swanhuyser/CCSF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>A Blend of Interdependence and Autonomy\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At a recent online panel discussion, Mandela worker-owner and Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives (NoBAWC) board member Adrionna Fike described a web of support among co-ops, not just around them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We got calls [from other co-ops] saying, ‘What are you doing, can we support you, can you help us?’ ” Mutual aid kept democratic workplaces resilient as they navigated the confusingly dangerous pandemic, she said. So did their cooperative practices. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainbow supported Mandela with supplies of hand baskets. Arizmendi asked Mandela to help distribute pizzas in West Oakland – and Candlestick Courier Collective delivers for Arizmendi and other co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That freedom, that autonomy to say yes, let’s do this, because we’re the boss, or there’s no boss ... I’d say that’s been key to our creative fire,\" Fike said. \"Autonomy. Creativity. That blend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Arizmendi, Farnham’s version of community building extends outward from the bakery walls. In a time of unprecedented job loss and insecurity, the bakers worried about when to open, and how to transition from a self-service operation to a walk-up window – but they never had to worry about losing their jobs. This, Farnham says, is a selling point. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our customers, a lot of them understand that the dollars that they spend go right back to the workers, who they see and get to know,” Farnham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Rainbow, that unprofitable new curbside service is wildly popular. According to Tink Moss, one of the program’s coordinators, “The customers are really, really excited and thankful about it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognizing a community need, the store plans to form an e-commerce department with an eye to continuing the curbside service. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the best response to COVID,” said customer Deborah Baron, as she loaded prepacked bags into her car. “I come here all the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Support From Local Officials\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Bay Area co-ops had fairly positive interactions with local governments during the pandemic. Fike of Mandela Grocery said Oakland Councilmember Carroll Fife was helpful via local aid group Community Ready Corps, which purchased batches of prepaid gift cards from Mandela to support those in need and the store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, city officials including Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s staff and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development were also helpful, Rainbow worker-owners said. Constant communication between the city and the co-op made it possible to keep up with fast-changing health directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other programs encourage worker-owned companies, such as the city of Berkeley's ongoing partnership with Project Equity, a nonprofit dedicated to helping owners sell companies to employees. California is also among a handful of states that support cooperative enterprises via direct policy and budget initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are embracing the worker cooperatives again, and getting our reach, and our ability to serve people and be transformative in our communities,” Fike said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Federal Paycheck Protection Program loans arrived, helped and were forgiven at Arizmendi — the company’s financial stability and its everybody-first attitude allowed use of those funds for payroll, as intended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While local and state government support of the cooperative model is good, it’s at the federal level that policy change could really have an impact, according to Schneider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can create financial infrastructure to make it so that worker-owners are on the same or better footing than investor-owners,” Schneider said. “We need to set our goals high. The constraints [to widespread worker-owned successes] are federal. When you open the door there, you can get exponential increases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The yet-to-be-implemented Main Street Employee Ownership Act, which passed in 2018, would improve access to capital and expand technical assistance for employee-owned businesses through the federal Small Business Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>What’s Next?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As California returns to a semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy after the state's \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877992/whats-actually-changed-in-california-now-the-state-has-reopened\">June 15 reopening\u003c/a>, Bay Area co-ops are ready to build community, create jobs and make more co-ops. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all figured it out together, and that was one of the amazing things about being part of a co-op during this natural disaster,” Arizmendi’s Farnham said, reflecting on the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bakery may be famous for pizza and pastries, but its sibling, Arizmendi Construction, plans to focus on secondary backyard housing units to address the shortage of affordable and below-market housing. Candlestick Courier plans to file papers to legally become a California cooperative corporation. And NoBAWC is restructuring as a nonprofit to get more funding and help more co-ops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Rainbow Grocery, the future means getting more shoppers in the store, but it also means extending support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we do more sponsorships and engagements with events and local organizations, as they’re kind of rebuilding and restructuring?” Frost said. “How are we going to be participating with our donations program?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Bay Area co-ops weathered the pandemic with minimal layoffs and a range of creative responses to new business challenges. No bosses or owners directed their decisions, and in crucial terms, they worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard from people at other stores where big swaths of workers went down with COVID,” Edgar said. “And that did not happen here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced by the City College of San Francisco Journalism Department and the \u003ca href=\"https://calhum.org/programs-initiatives/programs/democracy-and-the-informed-citizen/\">Democracy and Informed Citizen Emerging Journalist Fellowship\u003c/a> initiative of California Humanities.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Front-line workers in the Bay Area and other parts of California say their bosses often fail to inform them of their rights during the pandemic, and sometimes even retaliate when they ask for COVID-19 protections, according to a new survey of hundreds of workers in the restaurant, home health care, janitorial and other industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.advancingjustice-alc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ALC-Workers-Rights-COVID-Report-202103-R7_digital.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report\u003c/a>, which was published Wednesday, polled more than 630 mostly low-wage workers as coronavirus cases spiked last fall. It found a troubling lack of workplace protections for reducing the spread of COVID-19, with many employees worried they were putting their lives at risk to earn a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of the survey’s respondents were concentrated in the Bay Area, and included many immigrants and people of color. Many feared contracting the virus at work and infecting others at home, as well as not being able to support their families if they got sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, employers \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/coronavirus/ETS.html#:~:text=California%20recently%20approved%20Cal%2FOSHA,OSHA's%20Aerosol%20Transmissible%20Diseases%20standard.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">must\u003c/a> provide health and safety information and training, and let workers know of coronavirus-related benefits available to them, such as paid sick leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But more than half of the surveyed workers said their employer did not inform them what to do if they had COVID-19 symptoms or exposure. And three in five surveyed said they weren’t informed about their right to use paid sick leave for COVID-19, according to the report titled “Few Options, Many Risks.” [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Winnie Kao, attorney with the Asian Law Caucus\"]‘Workers really feel that they’re risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you’re potentially losing your job.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The results are troubling for efforts to contain the virus, since one in three respondents felt uncomfortable reporting coronavirus symptoms to their bosses, said Winnie Kao, an attorney with San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus and one of the authors of the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There might be protections out there on paper, but many folks don’t know about them,” said Kao, who leads her organization’s workers rights project. “Workers really feel that they’re risking their livelihood to push back in any way, and that if you speak up either about your symptoms or about lack of protections, you’re potentially losing your job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kao said many workers are not speaking up about COVID-19 concerns out of fear of retaliation or doubt that their employer will address the problem. But even worse, dozens of workers who did ask for COVID-19 protections, such as masks or paid leave, reported retaliation from their employers, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11870819\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11870819\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"919\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-800x919.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos-160x184.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/View20recent20photos.jpeg 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorena Velazquez, a mother of two sons, says her employer retaliated by cutting her hours after she took time off to get her COVID-19 vaccine and recover from side effects. \u003ccite>(Fight for $15 campaign)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The survey was disseminated through nonprofit groups serving immigrants and low-wage workers, and about 40% of respondents identified as Asian, with another 40% Latinos. The vast majority of participants responded to the survey in Chinese or Spanish, suggesting they were immigrants, said Kao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lower-income communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by the virus. For example, since the beginning of the pandemic, 10,400 working-age Latinos in California have died from COVID-19, four times the number of white people in the same age group, according to California Department of Public Health figures. People who work outside the home face a higher risk of exposure to the virus, say public health experts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But basic prevention measures were not available to many of the workers surveyed, with 33% of all respondents — including more than half of restaurant workers — saying they could not physically distance most of the time at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employers in California are responsible for providing masks or reimbursing employees who buy their own, but 12% of respondents said they did not receive face coverings or protective equipment from their bosses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another troubling finding of the report: nearly one in five workers reported being paid less than the state’s minimum wage. The report authors say that’s often a signal of other violations in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the California Department of Industrial Relations said the agency’s enforcement divisions have been working hard to educate employers about their responsibilities and to investigate workplace complaints.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the beginning of the pandemic, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) has issued more than $4.6 million in citations for COVID-related health and safety violations, said Erika Monterroza, with the Department of Industrial Relations. She added that the Labor Commissioner’s Office is investigating more than 1,200 wage and retaliation complaints connected to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unsafe working conditions, wage theft and employer retaliation are long-standing problems for the lowest paid workers in the state. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This new settlement — developed with input from women janitors themselves — requires ABM janitorial operations across California to develop more robust safety protocols. That could include using a buddy system to pair up workers when dropping off supplies, and limiting supply drops to well-lit, outdoor areas. The settlement also requires the company to create goals of hiring and promoting more women to supervisory positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case was first filed in 2019. Another plaintiff, Araceli Sanchez, said she endured 14 years of harassment while cleaning buildings, including sexual assault and attempted rape, from her supervisor, while working the night shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” Sanchez told The California Report \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11726127/fresno-janitors-file-lawsuit-against-continued-rape-on-the-night-shift\">in 2019.\u003c/a> “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35265_IMG_2988-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janitor Araceli Sanchez says she endured abuse at the hands of her supervisor for 14 years. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleged there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a very scary thing to be in their position: to work alone at night in a big empty building, to not speak English, to be paid minimum wage and have that be your sole source of income for your entire family, to be threatened with losing your job, threatened with immigration authorities, and threatened physically with harm,” said Brenda Adams, senior attorney with \u003ca href=\"https://www.equalrights.org/\">Equal Rights Advocates\u003c/a>, which filed the lawsuit in conjunction with Fresno law firm Lang, Richert and Patch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Congress hammers out President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package, California has worked out its own plan to get more cash into the hands of struggling Californians, particularly undocumented families left out of federal assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of public hearings and closed-door negotiations, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate leader Toni G. Atkins and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon today announced $600 one-time payments to households receiving the state’s earned income tax credit, along with an extra $600 for undocumented taxpayers earning less than $75,000 who were ineligible for previous federal stimulus payments and other assistance for low-income residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal is a compromise version of Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/newsom-wants-extra-600-stimulus-for-low-wage-californians/\">Golden State Stimulus\u003c/a> package and would help an estimated 5.7 million Californians. It now needs formal approval in the state Legislature as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2021/02/17/governor-newsom-legislative-leaders-announce-immediate-action-agreement-for-relief-to-californians-experiencing-pandemic-hardship/\">$9.6 billion California economic stimulus package\u003c/a> aimed at helping workers and small businesses. A vote could come as soon as Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are hungry and hurting,” Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, said in a statement. “I’m proud we were able to come together to get Californians some needed relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Senate leader Toni G. Atkins']'People are hungry and hurting ... I’m proud we were able to come together to get Californians some needed relief.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Newsom’s original $2.4 billion proposal, California would have sent $600 payments to the families of approximately 4 million workers with annual incomes below $30,000, including some undocumented workers. But some advocates and lawmakers argued that the money would be better spent on filling gaps in federal relief, rather than trying to jumpstart the economy. Instead, they pushed for two alternatives that would send much larger cash payments payments to California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/\">nearly one in 10 workers\u003c/a> who are undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today’s $3.8 billion Golden State Stimulus deal took those concerns into account. California will now send $600 tax rebates out to 3.8 million workers who made less than $30,000 last year. On top of that, an estimated 575,000 undocumented workers who make up to $75,000 a year will get an extra $600, in some cases bringing their total aid to $1,200.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grants of $600 will also go out to 405,000 very low-income families with children enrolled in CalWorks, as well as 1.2 million elderly, blind and disabled recipients of Supplemental Security Income or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/capi\">state’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Sending Out More Cash\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>California’s coffers have grown since Newsom’s January proposal, likely increasing lawmakers’ appetite to send out more cash. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1357089574288117760?s=20\">The state now expects\u003c/a> $10.3 billion more in revenue than was projected in January, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/01/california-budget-depends-on-staggering-wealth-gap/\">driven by the pandemic gains of the state’s wealthiest residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sending thousands in relief to undocumented immigrants would be a political nonstarter in most other parts of the country. 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They are also largely ineligible for other safety net benefits, like food stamps. Newsom created a program to send $500 to undocumented immigrants last spring, but there was only enough money for about 150,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, Newsom also created Housing for the Harvest to provide hotel rooms for farmworkers who can’t safely quarantine at home. But as of late January, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/12/why-few-farmworkers-isolate-in-californias-free-covid-19-hotel-rooms/\">just 119 rooms had been reserved\u003c/a>. Earlier today Newsom acknowledged that the program has been “underutilized.” The early action deal doubles down on the program, investing $24 million in financial assistance and services for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s stimulus will act like a boost to the California’s Earned Income Tax Credit, which is already available to undocumented workers who file taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, thanks to a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2020/09/newsom-weighs-pandemic-relief-for-undocumented-immigrants/\">new law passed last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During legislative hearings, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended sending \u003ca href=\"https://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sites/abgt.assembly.ca.gov/files/Feb%202%20Sub%204%20LAO%20The-2021-22-Budget-Golden-State-Stimulus-012221.pdf\">$1,800 payments\u003c/a> just to the low-income ITIN filers, cutting the plan’s price tag to under $1 billion. Then distribute the remaining funds to the approximately half of undocumented workers who don’t have ITINS or other very low-income Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Target Aid To Undocumented\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fiscal and policy analyst Chas Alamo said Newsom’s $2.4 billion proposal was too small to stimulate California’s $3.1 trillion economy. By contrast, he noted Californians received about $4 billion in unemployment benefits each week during 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LAO alternative had gained support from a group of 17 Assembly Democrats. 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It’s at the heart of the business model that fuels what is now called the “gig economy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for years, drivers and other workers in the gig economy have been fighting to be recognized as employees and have pushed to get the backing of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, they scored a big victory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, joined by city attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and other jurisdictions across the state, filed a lawsuit against Uber and Lyft over their use of contractors. The suit aims to force the two companies to recognize their workers as employees under the authority of Assembly Bill 5, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11773833/california-legislature-passes-ab-5-but-uber-says-it-might-refuse-to-follow-it\">a state law\u003c/a> that went into effect this year that significantly limits which workers can be classified as contractors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"California Attorney General Xavier Becerra\"]‘Sometimes it takes a pandemic to shake us into realizing what [worker classification] really means and who suffers the consequences of it.’[/pullquote]In announcing the lawsuit, Becerra outlined its three goals: to stop misclassifying workers, assign penalties and seek restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The litigation, he said, is based on the premise of “unfair competition” — which asserts that Uber and Lyft have an advantage over other businesses that are following the law and providing their workers with employee protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the effort is successful, the two companies could be forced to pay a penalty of as much as $2,500 per driver, which would amount to billions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These companies are willing to take these workers’ labor as drivers,” Becerra said at a press conference Tuesday. “But they don’t want to accept the worker protections that should go with that work, as these employees should get.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement sent to KQED, Lyft said, “We are looking forward to working with the Attorney General and mayors across the state to bring all the benefits of California’s innovation economy to as many workers as possible.” Uber said it would contest the suit in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of protections for Uber and Lyft drivers has come to a head in the current pandemic. Stay-at-home orders have left hundreds of thousands of ride-hail drivers in California with little to no work, forcing them to apply for unemployment benefits. But because of their status as contractors, they have never paid into the state’s unemployment fund. And that means \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11812496/uber-and-lyft-arent-paying-for-drivers-unemployment-you-are-confirms-newsom\" rel=\"noopener\">the state is currently covering the cost\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra said the lawsuit has been in the works for months, but admits that the pandemic sped up the process. 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But he said he’s also concerned it will get snared in the court system and drag on at a time when so many drivers desperately need protections and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Uber and Lyft have a giant army of attorneys,” Aloudi said. “I worry this could last for months or years. … Maybe I won’t see AB 5 in my lifetime. But I hope my kids at least do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becerra and city attorneys said they were more hopeful about a speedy resolution. 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The department is providing workers and caregivers various options to collect payment. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\">Learn more here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You should also seek legal counsel for advice on how to communicate with your employer about coronavirus. \u003ca href=\"https://www.justia.com/lawyers/employment-law/california/legal-aid-and-pro-bono-services\">Here is a list\u003c/a> of pro bono employment lawyers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How Long Should You Isolate Yourself if You Test Positive for COVID-19?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guidelines for how long to isolate after testing positive for COVID-19 are changing rapidly, so it’s important to seek out the most up-to-date information, according to Dr. Sajan Patel of UCSF. 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