Name: Health workers ask government for more sick days, free childcare
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Description: Public healthcare workers, including representatives from the NCDHHS and UNC Hospital, hold a press conference in downtown Raleigh to voice their concerns about the state and federal government's response to coronavirus.

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Public healthcare workers, including representatives from the NCDHHS and UNC Hospital, hold a press conference in downtown Raleigh to voice their concerns about the state and federal government's response to coronavirus.

Yes we're going Good morning everyone Glad you could be out here today Greetings from doing Local 1 52 North Carolina Public Service Workers Union I bring you greetings for the local 1 50 President Bryce Carter and the Vice president Misaki a Royal This is also on the visible chair Right here Miss Nathan at Mayo This is our home This is our chair for organizing Miss on God's laughing house I'm also writing Foul Member You want 50 and also serve as Eastern Region Vice President A part of you in national human today We're here to hand deliver Let it to the governor about this Corona virus pandemic that we're having right now Workers rights workers protections and work We represent workers all over the state We represent on health care workers Municipal workers Department of Administration Universities way represent a lot of workers across this state of North Carolina Greetings Governor Cooper We appreciate you taking the time measures on March attempt to declare a state of emergency to response in Corona virus cov in 19 We also appreciate the recommendations from North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services in C DHHS to slow the spread of covert 19 and reduce the number of people in publisher was working particularly health care workers on some of the most impacted by this global has a Corona virus spreads in the United States Nurses across the country have said they don't have enough resources to protect themselves from getting sick In hospitals are unprepared to treat patients who are infected  We hope that this emergency will compel the state DHHS UNC systems and all management at the facility level to take seriously ill calls for open communication via meet and confer with your local 1 50 committee continuous training and infectious disease protocols and personal protective equipment to keep us all safe at work and turned out wider communities We are highly concerned about the leadership at the federal level In particular the recent discussions by the Centers for Disease Control the invention regarding weakening their guidance for health care workers including recommended surgical masks which public health experts say don't protect against infection Is that a restoration for health care workers providing care to patients with CO Viet 19 Outside of the health care field far too many workers without unions have paid time off work or child because of this pandemic way as a nation are now acutely aware that when workers do not have paid sick time they often are forced to make a dangerous choice between coming to work sick and putting food on the table for the kids versus staying at home and lose and pay or even their job That is a choice that no one should have to face As this crisis progresses government and industry must work together to support public health by providing a minimum 14 They pay six bite for every worker impacted by the panda We hope this emergency also crucial support for calling for universal paid sick leave for all works without free child care facilities rivers Children staying home with the grand pants by their parents while also knowing that Everly on the most wanted to the way we called on efficiency for relevant agencies toe at the following common sense policies Responses to this emergency first established a 14 day six day bank for every working impacted by the pandemic that does not draw from earth sick and vacation time eventually leading towards a universal paid sick leave long We need peopie personal protective equipment should be readily available for anyone Task treated potentially affected populations including in 95 man's gowns and gloves that was free childcare facilities for all state and local government employees No worker should be punishable given occurrence for calling in sick Now will be handing over the rest of this to miss on God's laughing Good morning uh bring you greetings from the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union You'II Local 1 50 representing over 5000 public sector workers here in the state of North Carolina from the Department Health and Human Service is North Carolina Deal T Department of Administration many other agencies and municipal employees I just want to stay that way When Dominic Cooper took office first thing our union did was push for an executive order for meeting We're going to meet with Governor Hopefully is we hand deliver a letter but more importantly I want to address some policy issues that need to be addressed One of the things that will be impacted is if workers catch this virus while it worked Worker's comp law should kick in since it would be a work related illness or injury way would like to talk to the governor about the importance of making sure that the workers were able to use worker's comp The other item is since over the last eight years state Legislature has cut the unemployment insurance workers are out due to this illness for long courage In time they should be able to use the unemployment insurance benefits And certainly there needs to be emergency regulations just for OSHA The Occupational Health and Safety Video Standards Way need very special emergency regulations to address all these concerns We're looking forward to speaking with the governor They're delivering this hand delivered the letter This is Nathan at Mayo She's the chair of our municipal council city workers So I just wanted to reiterate this is it It's important that all of these common sense measures are starting to weigh Want those to be put into place Most unions have collective bargaining agreements or they talk about you They have specific provisions around sick time around safety around whistleblower protections And now as we face this ever growing pandemic is important that these workers protections be expanded to all workers in North Carolina Uh industry is meeting now with government there will be a industry bailout That's what it looks like us We want workers to be bailed out and not left out This time it's up to us individually to collectively take responsibility to end this epidemic This mean workers who was sick should stay at home sick and companies should not punish workers who do stay at home sick or to take care of sick Children  The industry and government must create the funds necessary to ensure that workers continue to receive paychecks way in the North Carolina labor movements then ready to do our part and thank you all for coming out today Um one other thing that way are with the National Nurses Union with the Southern Workers Assembly in our fight for Medicare for all way Understand that if we had a universal health system universal health care system that workers would not have to choose between whether they are going to work or whether they will be concerned about meals But they do choose to go to the doctor that all of this would not be a question these things will automatically covered So this it shows us that Medicare for all or universal health care is something that way need to continue to fight for here in North Carolina and across the country and that there's something that's needed face serious pandemics like this Think this particular Electoral 2020 We're calling on our use calling on our unit's calling upon all candidates elected officials to pass resolutions calling for universal health care for all  And this Nathan that stated it's made even more parent with this presence of pandemic that's going on We're trying to set one up with yes well workers  The divorce workers made to sit at the table with people that make policy decisions because we're on the front line in the water Sewer plants in the mental health hospitals like Darren System that worked in water and sewer were on the front lines serving residents and citizens off this great state And without workers having a force we're not able to make sure that we provide safe and quality service is all the many citizens and residents of this great state so meeting there is very important and his many of y'all know many states have what we call collective bargaining rights for their public sector workers North Carolina has Section 95 98 which begs the right to collectively bargain for municipal state consecutive workers And right now there's no better time than to see the importance of Medicare for all need for collective bargaining  And certainly right now since we don't have collected watching rights at least exercise our right to meet him here  Under the executive order that Governor Cooper passed took office  state employees working for DHHS working at Central Regional Hospital which is Mental Health Hospital But we do have also medical doctors nurses and other people there too So basically you know people wanna have PP Personal protective equipment way worked with the most vulnerable people in our state We provide 24 7 care so we just want to make sure that we have the proper equipment to care for them to keep them safe and keep us safe to like we need in 95 Mass More gentle You know what we do have decompression rooms itself like that And what what decompression rooms do like this Just say if somebody called in a decompression room they follow straight to the floor is not here so that keep stuff from Sprint We need to make sure that vital environmental people environment service is people have to correct part cleaning equipment and things like that and that just just just is a whole state of North Carolina just puts their employees first so we can do our jobs And most effective of course I just talked about the Pee Pee Personal Protective Equipment also established a 14 minutes of money from 14 day sick leave That won't count against people's already sick leave so they don't have to make a choice of not coming to work in that Also basically cleaning other facilities making sure that you have enough environmental service is people have to pay the tithe make sure things are clean and sanitary Also just to make sure that people that are affected by this I'm able to get unemployment benefits so they won't lose a paycheck and that also that it won't count against them free child care for for health care workers that do have to go to work We are in central employees so just these are most important things No it's never too early We need to have these conversations You need to be proactive not reactive A lot of times here in the United States is since we don't have a lot of things happen We kind of cavalier about things and people don't think take things too seriously But this is a world endemic and I think we should have these conversations I think that we should be talking to the governor  Governor needs to talk to the employees of people that's in the buildings and know what's going on So we need to have that conversation with each other so we can work together no more Nobody is more important than the way all we all have a system that makes this thing work We all need to work together Putting things in place with this helps us prepare for the next time We all understand that this is not This will not be the last time that we have to face a crisis similar to this So going ahead and talking with workers on the front line developing policies development procedures Thio put into place to win something like this how it could be handled and how it could be handled successfully So it's important that all people all levels of workers managers Thio policymakers are involved in sitting down at the table to have these discussions I think the reason why the executive order was passed by Cooper that allows us to beat you here is because were organized five that represented over 5000 public sector workers It's very important to meet with workers who are organized workers organized then that fearful about raising very important questions of that impact our health and safety and the quality of service is that we deliver And it's very important that he meets with organizations such as the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union Do you want 50 that has 16 chapters or members and 16 locations around the state from the West Coast all the way to the East Coast from Asheville Winston Salem Charlotte Greensboro Caswell Cherry Hospital down in the ghost world Very important that he meets with us today Well it's apparent since certain things aren't in place since there are shortages of safety equipment that we're not We weren't prepared Also the fact that way have contract employees are union also represents contract employees Their rights and human rights is well and many of them don't have health insurance Many of them are not treated as equals in terms of what they what role they play in terms of servicing of the citizens and residents of North Carolina way know that this state is not really prepared to deal with this pandemic And we look forward to talking with the governor about his issues Concerns Are you having for many workers specifically to make that choice between coming to work sick and or putting food on the table Called said Listen I don't I don't know what to do Well long as faras on B j just We have certain precautions My buildings are locked down which means that no visitors come in and out The workers are being screened You're asking a series of questions You are getting the temperature taking and stuff like that  If someone does come up where they might have a symptom of whatever you're directed straight to employee health employee health takes over from there as of right now No but there are precautions that the HHS has been taking to protect patients and our employees So as of right now this forest in my profession no as a right nail but knows what the future holds Okay well 11 thing I do need to reach needed touch One is cursed So a lot of workers are worried about occurrences counting against it So hopefully that way you get things in place that if a person does have to call out sick for whatever reason that they don't get in the current doesn't count against him And it turned Okay an occurrence is like uh let's say you're late  You call out sick what it is you might think  After three occurrences you get a verbal warning and after five maybe a written warning it Those are hooker's occurrences not terminated So I mean that's what occurrence occurs If you're late you call out sick things like that  Now what I will say is their DHHS has certain like illnesses that don't count against you But those are like extraordinary measures if you do contracting illnesses But in this case I believe that hopefully that we can come to an agreement that there'll be no occurrences because they are telling you to stay home if you're sick and not come to work So hopefully we won't have to deal with them or that employees won't have to worry about that Count against them Also we're hoping that the Family medical Leave Act won't kick in during this emergency You know many workers have other way Call of current illnesses Whether it's diabetes hypertension heart disease way Don't want no the family medical leave Act to kick in due to this particular crisis Right now you lift is organization organization My name is on Gaza A N g a z A last name laughing house 400 of us here in this state I am a member and my last name is L A u G h i N g h o u s e I'm a member of the North Carolina Public Service Workers Union Local 1 50 and also the director for Chairperson for the organizing committee of our local union What I worked with called D Away My name is there Yes My name is Terry on Smith D a r r I go in I s m I t h organization  I am with the local 1 50 Public service workers union and I worked for North Carolina to test the Central Regional Hospital I'm Nathan at Mayo in 18 h a n e Mayo M a y o I am the chair of the municipal council for you 1 50 No flying public service And I worked in the city of Durham Water department  Go inside and deliver the letter Now listen If you want some follow up interviews three

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