San Bernardino Press MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 - SEPTEMBER 21, 2014
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As labor negotiations stall, San Bernardino nurses strike by Vickie Vértiz
attention to “what they view as unsafe conditions for their patients and a lack of response in negotiations by county officials,” said the National Nurses United website. They claim that labor negotiations have not
new law and Brown called the bill by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego “real step forward” for, especially middle-class, workers, who had to choose between forcing themselves to work while sick and thus possibly endangering coworkers, or recover at home losing essential income and Please see page 2
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improved between them and the county, which jeopardizes patient safety, reported the San Bernardino County Sun. Over 100 nurses marched Please see page 4
New law requires paid sick leave for California workers by Jennifer schlueter According to the governor’s office, “about 40% of California’s workforce — an estimated 6.5 million people — have no paid sick leave benefits at all,” stated the Los Angeles Times. This will change July of next year, because last Wednesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (AB 1522). For both part-time
and full-time employees working more than 30 days per year, the legislation requires employers to grant them three days of paid sick leave. For every 30 hours of labor, employees can earn a minimum of one paid sick leave hour to recuperate themselves, or assist a sick family member. Unions and worker’s rights groups have long favored the
Church launches fundraising shoe drive to raise funds, support microenterprise in developing nations, and help the environment Emmanuel United Methodist Church is conducting a shoe collection drive on September 19, October 3 and October 24 to raise funds for Imagine No Malaria while benefiting microenterprise ventures in developing nations and keeping old shoes out of local landfills. Individuals can help by donating gently worn, used shoes at Emmanuel United Methodist Church’s parking lot from 3 – 5 PM, 3310 North “G” Street. In the US alone, approximately 630 million pairs of shoes are thrown away per year. The materials used to manufacture a pair of shoes are created from chemical compounds that will create health hazards if left to disintegrate openly or in landfills. By donating your gently worn, used shoes to the Imagine No Malaria Shoe Drive, your shoes are given a second chance to make a difference. All donated shoes will be redistributed to microenterprise partners through Funds2Orgs and used in developing nations for impoverished people to start,
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On Tuesday, September 9, nurses for Arrowhead Regional Medical Center (ARMC) and other San Bernardino County facilities held an informational picket line outside the county Government Center to bring
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