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Newsom: Stay-at-home orders will likely be extended
Other areas currently under stay-at-home orders include the greater Sacramento area and the Bay Area. Only sparsely populated Northern California has escaped the orders, as its ICU bed capacity has stayed above the 15% threshold.
Workers will feel the ramifications of this unprecedented year long into the future.
The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 300,000 lives, destroyed millions of jobs, busted gaping holes in public budgets, and magnified the myriad inequalities that have come to define life in the United States.
Notwithstanding a few bright spots, the labor movement struggled to find its footing in the biggest workplace health and safety crisis of our lifetimes.
The year started with 3.5 percent unemployment the lowest in a half-century and hopes that workers might be able to use the tight labor market to recover some of what had been lost over decades of concessions.
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Members of SEIU Local 1021 rallied outside the Alameda County Administration Building during their October strike. Photo: SEIU Local 1021
The pandemic kicked workers back on their heels even tumbled some over. Fearing for their lives and well-being, some responded with fire and organizing, others with stunned passivity.
At some moments it seemed that possibilities were opening up for powerful collective action: with bus drivers in Detroit striking and educators in New York City sicking out, and the Black liberation movement taking to the streets.
It looked like a transformational moment, but the possibilities are yet to be realized. Nine months into the pandemic, workers are overworked, overwhelmed, and exhausted.