Dispatches From the Culture Wars – January 31, 2023
Portside
A reign of terror from coast to coast
A reign of terror from coast to coast
A reign of terror from coast to coast
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Sacramento-Area Peet’s Coffee Store Becomes Chain’s First US Location To Unionize
The Sacramento Bee
Peet’s Workers United received assistance from Starbucks Workers United organizers.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – December 20, 2022
Portside
Beating back the right, fight by fight
In Rural California, Farmworkers Fend for Themselves for Health Care
David Bacon Reality Check
More than 500,000 California farmworkers play a critical role in providing Americans with the food that nourishes and sustains their health. Yet, for those workers, their own health is too often in jeopardy.
About Those “LA Audio Tapes” and How To Heal Los Angeles: We Have Questions
Stansbury Forum
While the timing of the release raises questions, we must not forget to ask: Who benefits? Why was it made? Who released the audio? Who made it? What was their goal? Do we really want to heal?
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Fire Country Is Brought to You by Austerity, Mass Incarceration, and Climate Change
Jacobin
The new series Fire Country revolves around an incarcerated California firefighter. Based on a real program, the drama is made possible by California’s budget priorities: few resources for climate protection or fire services and abundant investment in prisons.
California Accuses Amazon of Stifling Competition in New Major Lawsuit
The Guardian
The case mirrors a District of Columbia complaint alleging the company pushes sellers to maintain higher prices on other sites
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Gov. Newsom’s Choice: Back California Farm Workers or Help the Rich. Why Is This So Hard?
Sacramento Bee
The bottom-line question is why so many highly profitable companies prefer to spend money to fight the unions instead of offering their vulnerable employees affordable health care coverage and safety from sexual assault.
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Kaiser Strike Begins: California Behavioral Health Staff Walk Out Over Pay, Workload
The Sacramento Bee
Two key issues for the workers, all members of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, have been the subject of negotiation: wage increases and the union’s demand to increase the time therapists spend on tasks other than seeing patients.
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California Fast Food Workers Demand a Seat at the Table
Voice of OC
A bill - BA 257 - aimed to create a fast food sector council to set minimum industry standards on wages, working hours, health and safety and other working conditions - is expected to come before the senate appropriations committee on August 11.
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