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This week, local nurses union SEIU 721 filed a complaint with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health because of the reuse of face masks and lack of N95 respirators. Union leaders demanded that hospitals not assign suspected COVID-19 patients to their members until they were provided the appropriate gear.

Registered nurses are being asked to reuse masks and denied access to N95 respirators mandated by a state standard for airborne infectious diseases, according to the Service Employees International Union Local 721.

Before the pandemic, this sort of ploy across the gig economy read as a way to prop up unsustainable companies by gouging their own workforces; during covid-19, hewing to the same approach is simply irresponsible.

As America holes up inside, thousands of full-time rideshare drivers are still out on the streets trying to carve out a living.

Uber and Lyft drivers and other platform workers are calling on California to enforce its new employment law as illness, confusion, and hardship from COVID-19 sweep their industries.

Thousands of drivers sign a petition telling the ride-hailing companies to better safeguard them from the deadly disease.

Rideshare drivers are calling on Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc., and similar platform operators to create $110 million assistance fund to help drivers through the coronavirus crisis.

When you drive for Uber or Lyft, it’s hard to practice the social distancing recommended by the state to contain the spread of COVID-19.

Recognizing his history of championing the cause of working people and the labor movement, today Westminster City Councilmember Sergio Contreras earned the endorsement of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 721.

A federal judge on Friday tentatively denied Uber and Postmates’ request to block enforcement of a California labor law that requires certain gig economy companies to classify workers as employees.