CalTrans plays a big role in cleaning up homeless camps. It’s messy, awful work.
According to the Sacramento Bee, it’s dangerous too and workers are demanding some protection.
According to the Bee, the union representing CalTrans maintenance workers filed a grievance against the department, contending that employees responsible for the massive cleanups are not being adequately protected.
In many instances, workers are not given appropriate protective gear, vaccinations, training or enough compensation for the “dangerous hazmat duties they are performing” on CalTrans property.
The grievance was filed by the International Union of Operating Engineers, Unit 12.
Workers are exposed to blood, needles, women’s feminine products and buckets filled with human feces, Who can blame the workers for not liking this?
The problem continues to get worse. CalTrans spent $29.2 million cleaning up encampments since fiscal 2012-13. CalTrans estimates the bill in 2016-17 to be more than $10 million – a 34 percent increase over the previous year – and involved all 12 regional districts.
The pathetic Silicon Valley Community Foundation, a major force in regional philanthropy, according to the 
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The sophomoric GOP theory goes something like this: Put an initiative to repeal the gas tax on the ballot and Republicans will flock to the polls to support it. While they’re there, they’ll vote for all the Republicans down the ticket, thus saving many of the floundering Republican California congressional candidates.
Lawyers for the family of an unarmed black man killed by police in Barstow say that an autopsy found he was shot 10 times and died from choking on his own blood.
In “do as we say, not as we do San Francisco,” the scandal involving cheating in the $1 billion cleanup at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has until now focused on allegations of what was left behind at the site: radioactive dirt dumped into trenches to save the time and expense of testing and disposing of it properly.
A history of racism and bigotry has finally caught up with Berkeley’s famous Elmwood Cafe coffee shop.
This mother’s heart-wrenching story appeared in the 
On line memes ridiculing the Starbucks’ racism have begun their full assault on the coffee retailing giant and the predominately white elites who patronize their stores.
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After he was gunned down, brutal officers failed to deliver medical aid out of “concern” that he was still armed and playing dead. All the while Mr. Clark lay motionless in his grandmother’s backyard.
It’s a long-shot to expect Antonio Villaraigosa to peel enough votes from rank-and-file Democrats away from Gov. Gavin Newsom, the white elite’s last hope for governor.
Without far-reaching improvements in ballot design and systems, the problem could get worse. As California switches to a top-two primary, a high-profile race attracting a lot of candidates means one large pool of choices for voters. And yet most of the voting systems in use were designed for party-specific ballots with fewer candidates.
There have always been outsiders who criticized the tech industry — even if their concerns have been drowned out by the oohs and aahs of consumers, investors, and journalists. But today, the most dire warnings are coming from the heart of Silicon Valley itself. The man who oversaw the creation of the original iPhone believes the device he helped build is too addictive. The inventor of the World Wide Web fears his creation is being “weaponized.” Even Sean Parker, Facebook’s first president, has blasted social media as a dangerous form of psychological manipulation. “God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains,” he lamented recently.
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