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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has struck a tentative deal with civilian city employee unions to avoid layoffs and furloughs for the next six months, by postponing raises for those workers until the summer of 2022.
The Coalition of L.A. City Unions, which represents clerks, gardeners, mechanics, custodians and many other municipal employees, tentatively agreed to push back a 2% raise scheduled for this month and another 2% planned for June.
Garcetti confirmed the broad outlines of the deal, saying in a statement that he hopes to reach similar agreements with sworn employees at the city’s police and fire departments.
The new funding will come from the city s Department of Children, Youth and their Families and will support surveillance testing provided by the city s Latino Task Force. We are grateful for the expertise and additional resources provided by the mayor, the city agencies and the Latino Task Force to help us meet the new demands of operating schools during the pandemic, SFUSD Superintendent Vincent Matthews said. Surveillance testing of our staff is key to being ready to serve students in-person.
In addition to the Latino Task Force, testing will be provided by biotechnology company Curative Inc.
Initial testing will take place at the district s main office at 555 Franklin St. and will later expand to more sites. Staff at elementary schools slated to reopen would be prioritized for testing, district officials said.
Unions see opportunity as new generation of organizers emerge amid pandemic
As the pandemic has dragged on, workers from companies have joined unions this year December 24, 2020 by Anita Balakrishnan, The Canadian Press
While “unprecedented” has been the go-to term to describe the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the wave of labour upheaval currently moving across the country is the latest turn in a familiar cycle.
Times of crisis have always been linked to labour unrest, says Dimitry Anastakis, who teaches business history at the University of Toronto’s department of history and Rotman School of Management. Labour activity followed both the First and Second World Wars as well as the Great Depression. Anastakis points out the largest strike in Canadian history the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 came amid an influenza pandemic.
Union calls for equitable vaccine distribution plan that addresses frontline workers, impacted communities
By Daniel Montes article
A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for frontline health care workers at a vaccination site at Torrance Memorial Medical Center on Dec. 19, 2020 in Torrance, California. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/A
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SAN FRANCISCO - Union leaders representing San Francisco health care workers on Wednesday urged the city to come up with an equitable plan to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine to those most at-risk, including all frontline workers and communities of color.
The city received its first units of the Pfizer vaccine last week as part of an initial 12,675 doses from the state and federal government, and has already vaccinated registered nurses, doctors and paramedics.
Unions see opportunity as new generation of organizers emerge amid pandemic
by Anita Balakrishnan, The Canadian Press
Posted Dec 23, 2020 2:00 pm EDT
Last Updated Dec 23, 2020 at 2:14 pm EDT
While “unprecedented” has been the go-to term to describe the ripple effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the wave of labour upheaval currently moving across the country is the latest turn in a familiar cycle.
Times of crisis have always been linked to labour unrest, says Dimitry Anastakis, who teaches business history at the University of Toronto’s department of history and Rotman School of Management. Labour activity followed both the First and Second World Wars as well as the Great Depression. Anastakis points out the largest strike in Canadian history the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 came amid an influenza pandemic.