Workers stood up across the South ✊🏾
Channel: Union of Southern Service Workers
Date: 2023-04-10

Across industries, workers are standing together to demand health and safety. We won't back down! ✊🏽✊🏿 #OrganizetheSouth #UnionsforAll

Speakers: Naomi Harris, USSW member, and Charles Brave South Carolina AFL-CIO

More info:

"South Carolina OSHA, a division of the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, employs 18 inspectors, six of whom are still in training, to cover 2.3 million workers statewide, according to the agency. This has allowed reports of alleged violations to slip through the cracks, according to Frumin. The complaint gives two examples of what the union calls inadequate responses to complaints filed by individual workers.

One worker at a Columbia McDonald’s described how she was required to work, while pregnant, in the kitchen without water breaks in August after the air conditioning went out. OSHA declined to visit the site after determining the worker’s complaint “failed to comply with technical requirements,” according to the complaint, which alleges violations of Title 6 of federal Civil Rights law.

In a separate incident, a worker at an Irmo Dollar General reported to S.C. OSHA that emergency exits were blocked and the store was infested with mold and rats, according to the union’s complaint. But S.C. OSHA closed the report after the company submitted a response with pictures of a different location."

via The State
Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/news/local/crime/article273953960.html