February 18, 2021
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(Commentary by UCLA’s Jennifer Mnookin and Eileen Strempel) Faculty, staff
and students need to be given access to the vaccine sooner rather than later so that a full university life can resume in the fall. We aren’t arguing that students should be at the front of the vaccine line. They should stand behind the elderly, at-risk front-line workers and those at elevated health risk.
D&I boards tend to comprise people who experience the harm and inequity in the workplace. “You don’t want to overtax them because there’s this thing called the minority tax the stress that minorities often feel when they’re asked to engage in this work repeatedly,” says Julian A. McNeil, an organizational development consultant who collaborates with Slater and the first Anti-Racism Program M
January 5, 2021
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And even without the pandemic, incarceration for drug offenses often does more harm than good. “The risk of overdose increases dramatically post release from jail and prison,” notes Dr. Helena Hansen, an addiction psychiatrist at UCLA, “so we’re actually killing people by locking them up.”
Minority unions, such as the new Google group, began in the industrial era as first step to mobilize and channel workers’ discontent with a broader goal of gaining more power in the workplace, said Toby Higbie, a professor of history and labor studies at UCLA. It would probably be difficult for employees in a company as large as Google to reach a critical mass of workers and hold elections for a traditional union straight away, he said.