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Tag: essential workers

Labor leader: As attorney general, Justice Goodwin Liu would be a good advocate for California workers

Avatar by Guest Commentary January 8, 2021January 8, 2021

California needs an attorney general who recognizes the realities facing low-wage workers and has the experience to change those realities.

lockdown

State senator and pandemic expert call for strict lockdown

Avatar by Guest Commentary January 5, 2021January 5, 2021
child care

Childcare is essential work, and it’s in crisis

Avatar by Guest Commentary December 23, 2020December 23, 2020
Registered Nurse Reanne Takara administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health workers at UC Davis Medical Center on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health

Who’s next? Counties lobbied over vaccine priority list

Barbara Feder OstrovAna B. Ibarra by Barbara Feder Ostrov and Ana B. Ibarra December 21, 2020January 5, 2021
ICU nurse Helen Cordova receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as Gov. Gavin Newsom watches at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Dec. 14, 2020. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP Photo/Pool

The scramble for vaccine priority

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven December 15, 2020December 15, 2020
A customer walks past a sign indicating that a COVID-19 vaccine is not yet available at Walgreens on Dec. 2, 2020, in Long Beach. Photo by Ashley Landis, AP Photo

Vaccines getting closer: Governor outlines priorities for who’s up first

Barbara Feder OstrovAna B. Ibarra by Barbara Feder Ostrov and Ana B. Ibarra December 3, 2020December 4, 2020
Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up a bill before signing it into law over zoom on Sept. 17, 2020. Screenshot via YouTube

Newsom expands worker protections

Emily Hoeven by Emily Hoeven September 18, 2020September 18, 2020
A housekeeper cleans a room at the Colonial Motel in Santa Maria on July 15, 2020. The motel is one of the locations where Alco Harvesting houses H-2A farmworkers. Photo by Len Wood, Santa Maria Times

First county announces new COVID-19 protections for temporary ag workers

Jackie Botts by Jackie Botts September 17, 2020October 7, 2020
A nursing student does patient check-in and hands out requisition forms allowing patients to get their COVID-19 test results online at Cal Expo in Sacramento. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

‘Game changer’ in California coronavirus testing to double capacity and speed up results

Ana B. Ibarra by Ana B. Ibarra August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
Maya Suzuki Daniels sits with her 14-month-old at the table where she teaches high school English. Daniel’s expects that her son will make frequent appearances during her zoom lectures. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters via Google Hangout

Blackboard brawl: How California’s teachers hope to avoid 60,000 layoffs

Lauren Hepler by Lauren Hepler August 26, 2020August 28, 2020

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