SF News ‘Sickouts’ Spreading Across Bay Area Schools, as Teachers and Students Decry Lack of Masks and Testing Last week’s SF Unified and Oakland Unified School District sickouts were the shape of things to come at Bay Area schools, as Oakland teachers are pulling another one, as are many other East Bay schools.
SF News SF Teachers Planning a Mass ‘Sickout’ on Thursday Over COVID Safety Frustrations Hundreds of teachers have signed an online petition saying they won't work Thursday because of SFUSD’s alleged COVID safety failings, but can you really have a sickout when more than 10% of the staff is already legitimately out sick?
SF News Muni Ends Hiring Freeze; About Half of All Muni Drivers Aren't Working Each Day Of the 2,100 Muni drivers currently employed by the SF MTA, some 900 or so are unavailable for work on any given day due to sick leave, long-term leave, or days off.
SF News Rumor Mill: Muni Set for Driver Sick Out This Week Rumors continue to surface that, at some point this week, Muni drivers might call in sick en masse. SFist showed you this delightfully fury-inducing flier last week, a suspicious missive that encouraged drivers
SF News Read the Full Muni Sickout Flier, and Get Angry An anonymous flier has circulated among Muni drivers encouraging a sickout next week, from September 13 to September 17, to protest the August revamping of Muni's sick leave policy. Basically, as the Snitch