We Demand Safety for HSA Workers

We Demand Safety for HSA Workers

 During the current COVID-19 pandemic, HSA and City Management have made unprecedented changes to policies, procedures, wages, hours and working conditions affecting all of us. These changes include, but are not limited to, unreasonable or impossible demands on staff with respect to workload.

This has caused extreme and undue stress and anxiety on members, and has been negatively affecting our physical and mental health. Now, members are fighting back against these unreasonable policy changes, unsafe working conditions, and unilateral decision-making that is putting our safety at risk.

 During the current COVID-19 pandemic, HSA and City Management have made unprecedented changes to policies, procedures, wages, hours and working conditions affecting all of us. These changes include, but are not limited to, unreasonable or impossible demands on staff with respect to workload.

This has caused extreme and undue stress and anxiety on members, and has been negatively affecting our physical and mental health. Now, members are fighting back against these unreasonable policy changes, unsafe working conditions, and unilateral decision-making that is putting our safety at risk.

Safety at HSA

Please sign our petition and help us demand that HSA management put safety first by minimizing in-office rotations, maximizing telecommuting, and encouraging and allowing all virtual work functions be performed safely from our homes so we can protect our families and ourselves from COVID-19. 

Dear HSA management,

During the COVID-19 pandemic, HSA and City management have made unprecedented changes to policies, procedures, wages hours and working conditions affecting all of us. 

These changes have caused extreme and undue stress and anxiety for our members that have negatively affected our health both mentally and physically. Management is often changing our schedules, assignments, and regular functions without planning, support, training, or proper notice. Now the Agency is preparing to arbitrarily and capriciously return us to a hazardous and unsafe work environment, fully and unnecessarily exposing us to COVID-19 variants. 

HSA Management has additionally taken unilateral actions that jeopardize our health and safety, including but not limited to:

  • Assigning vulnerable employees to hotel sites. There are some housing clients who are COVID-positive and employees have been exposed and are still awaiting test results. 
  • Putting workers on unpaid leave for declining the high-risk assignments over fear for their health and even their lives. 
  • Failing to agree to have stricter worksite sanitization protocols, conduct adequate COVID-19 tracking procedures, and agreed to maintain distancing standards. Management has also failed to provide necessary PPE, adequate plexiglass barriers, and temperature checks, even as the Agency plans to double the amount of time we'll be required to work in-office. 
  • Failing to recognize that both vaccinated and unvaccinated workers can spread the virus as we continue to receive multiple COVID positive cases in the workplace. 
  • Failing to collaborate with SEIU 1021 HSA Chapter Leadership to coordinate return to work schedules and logistics with a focus on worker safety and maximizing telecommuting in light of the new and more dangerous variant strain. 

The Agency has refused or delayed requests to meet and confer with us over the above issues and other member’s concerns. The HSA Chapter’s Executive Committee has attempted to follow up and resolve all of the above issues before the RTW implementation timeline of Sept.13, but progress towards resolution has been very slow. 

We demand that HSA management put safety first by minimizing in-office rotations to one day only, maximizing telecommuting, and encouraging that all virtual work functions be performed safely from our homes as we continue to serve San Francisco's most vulnerable members.