Unrelenting e-mails from Gov. Newsom

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UFCLP Newsom Statement-The Pandemic, Newsom, The Recall & The Working Class
https://foramasslaborparty.wordpress.com/articles/

If nothing else, the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly shown us that capitalism and its spokesmen, the politicians, even in the face of hundreds of thousands of deaths, continue to base policies on the drive for profit as opposed to protecting people from the illness. It has also demonstrated the fact that working class people need our own political party. The COVID-19 pandemic is raging in California, with tens of thousands of deaths, and has caused a complete breakdown of our healthcare system. California is run by a Democratic governor and has a 2/3’s supermajority in the legislature, making them in charge of the state, and making them culpable for the chaos and out-of-control pandemic. Governor Newsom, in fact, froze hiring of new Cal-OSHA inspectors, leaving the bosses in control. Workers are dying at Foster Farms, at hospitals, and on the docks of Los Angeles. In Los Angles alone, over 700 infected longshore workers have been documented; among those, 12 ILWU members have died. The shipping companies, like other employers, have also refused to report the number of COVID-19 cases to the public health department although they are required to by law.

As further evidence of his corruption, Governor Newsom has allowed Elon Musk and Tesla to operate their massive factory, with more than 10,000 workers, while small businesses are shut down with shelter-in-place orders. The Alameda Health Department was put in charge of enforcing the health and safety rules at Tesla, and they sent the Fremont Police Department to enforce the rules instead of Cal-OSHA. The plant has become a virus vector as many workers are bussed into confined spaces from the Fremont plant to the Central Valley because of the high cost of housing in the Bay area. Newsom has allowed Musk, who is now the second richest man in America, to profit while his workers are contaminated and have no real health and safety protection on the job. These flagrant violations of health and safety rules are another example of the criminal negligence of this governor to protect workers on the job. Indeed, after a year of deepening COVID-19 contamination and deaths of front-line workers, disproportionately people of color, there are still less than 200 Cal-OSHA inspectors for California’s 18 million workers. There are more Fish and Game inspectors than Cal-OSHA inspectors in the state, and Newsom put on a hiring freeze for new Cal-OSHA workers at the start of 2020, despite the pandemic. Healthcare workers, after more than a year, still do not have enough PPE, gowns, or other safety equipment, and Newsom is pushing to lower the ratio of nurses to patients, giving already over-strapped nurses more patients to care for. Moreover, Newsom refuses to implement single payer healthcare and has allowed Kaiser and other private hospitals to terminate members in a global pandemic. Violating his own rules, he went to a dinner in Napa at the French Laundry, spending over $15,000 on a wine tab and dinners costing more than $500 each. His private party was paid for by a Hospital Association lobbyist, and he continues to do their bidding, allowing hospitals to reuse masks and to override health and safety conditions by lowering the nurse-to-patient ratio. His carelessness will inevitably lead to more deaths of patients and healthcare workers. The current breakdown of California’s healthcare system is a direct result of the privatization and deregulation pushed by Newsom and former governor Jerry Brown, who sought to attack the pensions of public workers.

In addition to his inept handing of the healthcare system, Newsom is also bungling reopening the education system. Newsom’s and SF Mayor London Breed’s demands that teachers go back to schools without proper PPE and other health and safety protections is not just an attack on the wellbeing of the teachers, students, staff, and their families, but is also another union-busting effort to blame workers for this complete failure of the capitalist system during the pandemic. Further evidence demonstrating the Newsom administration’s corruption and inefficacy include the failure of the Department of Motor Vehicles to provide timely services with enough staff support for registrations and the $11 billion that disappeared at the Employment Development Division (EDD). Workers in California are going bankrupt and homeless because of the corruption and incompetence of Newsom and his cronies who run the state. The growing anger that is building up in California is like the conditions that led to the recall of Gov. Grey Davis, who wrecked the energy market in California by allowing Enron and other private hedge companies to take over the energy market. Replaced by Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, Davis allowed PG&E executives to get away with criminal negligence, and his Public Utility Commission was stacked with corporate insiders who have covered up the massive malfeasance and crimes by PG&E during the Camp Fires and others. Newsom has and will continue to privatize at the expense of the working class just like his predecessors, both Democrat and Republican.

Newsom, giving a no-bid $200 million contract to the notorious Tetra Tech company, is again another example of the systemic corruption of his administration. As mayor of San Francisco, Newsom pushed for the development of condos on the contaminated, radioactive, former military bases at Hunters Point and Treasure Island, despite the massive fraud by Tetra Tech and Test America. He also encouraged the illegal firing of whistleblowers, who exposed both the $1 billion economic fraud and the illness and deaths of workers, including many black and poor community members, in Hunters Point. He even awarded Tetra Tech a $200 million non-competitive contract in the Camp Fire clean-up, even though two Tetra Tech managers were convicted and went to Federal prison for covering up fraud and retaliating against Tetra Tech whistleblowers.

Newsom and the Democrats could do more about the pandemic, but they are choosing not to because they are in the pockets of the capitalists. Instead of imposing a capital tax on California’s 165 billionaires, including Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison, Newsom and the state legislature let them pay nothing for this crisis to compensate workers and small businesses that are going bankrupt. As opposed to the $3.9 trillion gained in new corporate wealth, workers during this pandemic have lost $3.7 trillion, and yet Newsom and the Democrat-controlled legislature refuse to impose any capital or wealth tax on these robber barons. In a similar manner as implemented against Davis, the coming recall is being used by the Republicans to expose Newsom. It will likely be successful. Along with the millions of workers who have lost their jobs, there are many small businesspeople who are going bankrupt. There is also a growing danger of fascism as these forces mobilize and organize. Make no mistake -the Republicans won’t

The United Front Committee for a Labor Party demands that the billionaires pay for this crisis with a capital tax and that there be full PPE protection for all working people. We demand that the healthcare system be made public and that the profiteers be driven out of control of our healthcare system, which is now close to collapse. We demand that there be full compensation for workers who get COVID-19 or have lost their jobs and that there be criminal prosecution of bosses and companies that refuse to provide proper protection. We call for the elimination of the private healthcare system and the implementation of a worker-community run healthcare system, not based on profits but based instead on the needs of the people of California. This new system should also include eliminating the corrupt workers’ compensation system and ending private control of healthcare system to better protect injured workers. We demand that private California hospitals be put under public control, with workers playing a key role in reorganizing the healthcare system for the people’s wellbeing and not for profit.

To better achieve these aims, we call for the formation of a democratic labor party that will end healthcare privatization with a constitutional clause stopping all outsourcing and deregulation, protecting working people instead of catering to a state dictated by billionaires. Our unions need to break their relationship with the Democrats and support a party for, and organized by, working people. The Democrats have shown the working people of California that even amidst a massive pandemic (that they have exacerbated), they are still beholden to the billionaires. Now is the time to build a political alternative to the Democrats. They have proven that they will not save workers, but in fact, they will let millions of more people die for profit.