https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/low-wage-essential-workers-demand-better-protections-in-california Low-wage, essential workers who can’t do their jobs from home are facing an unequal playing field as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue. In California, many of the state’s 556,000 fast-food workers have protested what they call a widespread lack of basic health and safety protections. Now, many are advocating for a new…
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Few Options, Many Risks: Low-Wage Asian and Latinx Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Low-wage Asian and Latinx workers harbor significant health concerns related to COVID-19 but lack basic safety and wage protections and information while facing retaliation from employers and harassment from customers, according to a new report published by Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus in collaboration with the Labor Occupational Health Program (LOHP) at…
McDonald’s workers want more say over California labor conditions. This plan would help them
An Asian American Advancing Justice and UC Berkeley survey of low-wage workers found that 27% of restaurant employees, which include fast-food as well as sit-down establishments, polled received no information on COVID safety protections. https://www.sacbee.com/news/equity-lab/representation/article250790549.html
Low-wage Asian and Latinx workers struggled to get COVID-19 information and didn’t feel comfortable reporting symptoms, survey finds
Research from the advocacy group One Fair Wage found that harassment has become more severe for female tipped workers during the pandemic; according to the UC Berkeley/ALC report, about 49% of respondents who work in restaurants experienced negative interactions with people not following COVID-19 protocols. Two of those respondents said they or a coworker were physically…
Asian and Latinx low-income workers weren’t given masks, were fired for Covid-19 fears, report says
Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Asian Law Caucus, a national legal and civil rights organization, and the Labor Occupational Health Program at UC Berkeley, surveyed more than 600 workers throughout the state in the winter of 2020, and conducted at least eight in-depth interviews in spring 2021 in which subjects described their Covid-19 labor experiences.
Low-wage workers in California say COVID protocols are lacking on the job
“A lot of low-wage workers are being left behind, and left on their own to navigate” the pandemic at their jobs, said Winnie Kao, head of the workers’ rights team at Asian Law Caucus and one of the report’s authors. https://www.sfchronicle.com/local/article/Low-wage-workers-in-California-say-COVID-16116321.php
Low-Wage Workers Lack COVID Protections, Fear Retaliation, California Survey Shows
Unsafe working conditions, wage theft and employer retaliation are long-standing problems for the lowest paid workers in the state. But the pandemic has brought a new urgency to addressing these abuses, and fixing them will require more funding, staffing and attention at the government agencies that enforce labor laws, said Alejandra Domenzain, a co-author of…
