Democrats Want To Take California’s Freelance Job Destruction National
March 12, 2021
When California enacted a first-of-its-kind law that proved to be so devastating that thousands of people and dozens of professions had to seek special exemptions within its first year, you’d think federal lawmakers would think twice before bringing it nationwide.
But not House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. On Tuesday, she moved full steam ahead in passing the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a bill that would do to the entire nation what Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) did to California. By imposing the rigid, three-pronged “ABC” test in which all three conditions must be satisfied for a worker to be hired as independent contractor, the PRO Act would sharply limit who is legally allowed to work independently or as a freelance worker.
Joseph Rodríguez: LAPD 1994 : New book and online exhibition by the Bronx Documentary Center
Pacific Division officers confront a man found squatting in an apartment building garage.
BRONX, NY
.- In a year when millions of Americans poured into the streets demanding changes in police strategy, training and deployment, the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) believes a crucial part of the conversation should be Joseph Rodríguezs photo series and just-released book, LAPD 1994.
The BDCs online exhibition with images and text from Rodríguezs book gives us an up-close and personal look at the cops, victims, and violent perpetrators in working-class communities of Pico Union, Rampart, and South Central Los Angeles.
Fueled by Climate Change, Wildfires Threaten Toxic Superfund Sites
Blazes at the imperiled hazardous waste sites could release toxins ranging from acid mine drainage to radioactive smoke.
December 23, 2020
Firefighters use a back burn to try and control the Carr fire as it spreads towards the towns of Douglas City and Lewiston near Redding, California on July 31, 2018. The fire swept over the Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site, threatening to release corrosive chemicals into the watershed and contaminate Redding s water supply. Two firefighters were killed fighting the blaze and a 70 year old woman and her two great-grandchildren perished when their Redding home was swallowed by the flames. Credit: Mark Ralston/AFP via Getty Images