Public works crew says San Francisco fails to provide toilets, hand washing stations during COVID
By Lisa Fernandez
9 SF workers test positive for COVID
Nine Department of Public Works employees tested positive for COVID. They say the city has to provide cleaner toilets and handwashing stations.
SAN FRANCISCO - Members of a union representing about 350 Department of Public Works employees in San Francisco have filed a state workplace grievance against the city for allegedly failing to enforce mask use or provide adequate handwashing stations or toilets.
And as a result, nine city workers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last three weeks at the 2323 Cesar Chavez St. Maintenance Yard facility, according to a Cal-OSHA imminent hazard complaint filed Jan. 29. One employee is now hospitalized with COVID. OSHA investigations typically take six months to complete and issue a finding.
Updated on December 24, 2020 at 6:58 pm
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San Francisco-based businessman and entrepreneur Dwayne Jones has made quite a living over the last decade, consulting on a unique city program he himself helped create.
Records show that the former mayor’s office official and his consulting firm, RDJ Enterprises, netted at least $7 million in consulting contracts after partnering with the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in 2011 to craft the agency’s Community Benefits program, designed to give back to the communities that are home to SFPUC projects.
A key part of the Community Benefits program is its Social Impact Partnership program, which gives contractors and consultants on public projects extra credit for donating time and money to schools and non-profits. As bidders, firms can get up to a five percent boost in their overall score, based on how they pledge to volunteer and make donations over the life of the contact.