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Gov. Newsom has yet to release theme park virus guidance despite hints that guidelines are coming “very soon” and as Disneyland is slated to sack nearly 6,000 workers.
Essential workers and the customers they serve demand clear and consistent regulations that don’t vary from city to city or store to store. The particular guidelines that the Board of Supervisors established are thoughtful and reasonable. But the time for issuing guidelines is over. Too many people will get sick while we wait and hope that the industry will implement them. We need enforceable requirements, and we need them now.
Ralphs and Food for Less clerks are now getting the same temporary pay increase as grocery peers at other union-represented shops like Albertsons and Stater Bros, after the grocery union workers spoke out.
Grocery workers are demanding increased safety and sanitation measures to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus in their stores while they endure waves of customers filling the store and panic buying.