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Registered Nurses Speak Out For Patient Care, Demand an End to Short Staffing
From the bargaining table, to the streets, and before hospitals’ oversight committees, nurses are refusing to back down when to it comes to patient quality care and safety on the job.
Charter Schools Costing West Contra Costa Unified School District $27.9 Million Each Year
Charter schools, publicly funded but privately-operated schools that lie outside the control of local school districts, are driving public schools into financial crisis. The loss of tens of millions of dollars each year for each school district is taking its toll on the resources and overall quality education students need and deserve. From layoffs and cuts to jobs in education to closures of libraries and entire schools, charter schools lack accountability to local communities even as they drain their school districts’ finances and academic programs.
Solano County Community Stops Pollution-Generating Cement Factory
In 2017 South Vallejo residents learned that VMT/ORCEM was appealing the city’s Planning Commission’s decision to block the corporation’s construction of a cement factory on the waterfront. Because it impacted the communities we serve and live in, our members held a community forum at our Fairfield union hall to learn about the cement factory’s impact on public health and learned about the cement making process’ potential to pollute the air and the bay.