Low-wage, essential workers who can’t do their jobs from home are facing an unequal playing field as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue. In California, many of the state’s 556,000 fast-food workers have protested what they call a widespread lack of basic health and safety protections. Now, many are advocating for a new law to address long-standing issues in the industry. NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano reports. This story is part of our ongoing series, Chasing the Dream: Poverty, Opportunity and Justice in America.
Hari Sreenivasan:
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed two distinct workforces: those who could do their jobs from home and those who had to show up in person. A recent increase in labor strikes and protests is drawing attention to what some workers say was unequal treatment.
In California, low-wage, essential workers—including many of the state's more than half a million fast-food workers—are backing a new proposed law they believe will address both COVID-related and long-standing issues.
NewsHour Weekend's Ivette Feliciano reports now from northern California. This story is part of our ongoing series, Chasing the Dream: Poverty, Opportunity and Justice in America.
Ivette Feliciano:
On a Wednesday afternoon in mid-September, a group of fast-food workers from across the San Francisco Bay area brought a list of demands to the manager of this Jack in the Box in Castro Valley.
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