(File photo) BAGUIO CITY - The city government has partnered with the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) for a three-day aggressive and targeted community testing for the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). City Public Information Officer Aileen Refuerzo, in a phone interview Tuesday night, said the aggressive community testing would be held at the Melvin Jones Grandstand on January 13-15. Refuerzo said the BCDA has identified 25 sectors in the towns of La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay in Benguet province that would complete the 5,000 individuals to be subjected to reverse transcription - polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) tests. Among the identified targets are uniformed personnel, staff of national line agencies, private clinic and dialysis center employees, construction workers, food handlers, market vendors and porters, barangay health emergency response teams, personnel of the city government's general services offices, environment management offic
Irvine Will Consider ‘Hero Pay’ for Grocery Store Workers
Irvine city council will consider boosting the pay of grocery store workers during the COVID-19 pandemic at a Feb. 9 meeting.
If approved, the ordinance would increase employee pay by an extra $4 an hour at any large franchise company not including managers, or supervisors for 120 days. The ordinance would go into effect immediately.
“I am very supportive of our grocery store workers who have been on the front line and who’ve been greatly exposed,” Irvine Councilmember Tammy Kim told The Epoch Times. “The grocery store workers that we have here are going through a lot. They are some of our … poorest residents.”
spent in isolation. meantime hundreds of people focusing their anger on wall street as protests outside several financial firms enter the third straight day today. new york is expanding police presence in lower manhattan make sure safety of protesters as well as wall street workers. strike deadline has come and gone for thousands of grocery workers in california. some 62,000 grocery employees have been working without a contract since march and are threatening to strike over proposed wages and benefit cuts. both sides are said to be actively negotiating. jon: a manhunt right now in the woods surrounding fort bragg for aaron ba bassler the suspect in shooting death after city council man. there has been pretty close calls with the fugitive. patti ann is live at breaking news desk for us. reporter: that s right, jon. on august 11th, 44-year-old matthew coleman was found