by jake | Nov 17, 2020 | News, SUpporters
11/15/2020 Santa Clara County Board of Supervisor 70 West Hedding Street East Wing, 10th Floor San Jose, CA 95110 The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of...
by jake | Nov 17, 2020 | News
The “most profitable fast food franchise in the world” is struggling to keep its staff safe, workers say. Broken plumbing preventing hand-washing, a malfunctioning A/C making it difficult to breathe with a mask on amid a heat wave, and arbitrary favoritism...
by jake | Nov 17, 2020 | News
Maria Ruiz is the sole breadwinner for a household that includes her two daughters—one of whom is pregnant—along with two of her grandkids. But the 46-year-old was fired from a San Jose McDonald’s on Tuesday for lying about using an incorrect coffee pot—a charge Ruiz...
by jake | Nov 17, 2020 | News
As the pandemic has swept across the U.S., it has spurred a wave of protest walkouts and legal complaints by so-called essential workers who claim their companies have put them at needless risk. Some of that activism has been followed by alleged retaliatory...
by jake | Nov 6, 2020 | News
November 5, 2020 I 11:29 AM Is McDonald’s doing enough to protect workers from COVID? Employees have filed lawsuits and formal complaints since the pandemic took hold. The company says crew and managers’ “safety and well-being are top...
by jake | Nov 2, 2020 | News
The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of Americans out of work. New York (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of Americans out of work. But many of those still working are fearful, distressed and stretched thin. A quarter of U.S. workers say they have...
