California would mandate that all businesses require their employees and independent contractors to receive the COVID-19 vaccine under legislation announced by Democratic state lawmakers that was immediately criticized by Republicans.
Pan argued in support of Wicks' bill that “having a safe workplace is essential to ... keeping our economy going.”
More than 2,000 of the 30,000 San Francisco Bay Area members of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5 have been sickened and some have died from the coronavirus, said Jim Araby, the union's director of strategic campaigns. The California Chamber of Commerce, California Restaurant Association, California Retailers Association and California chapter of the National Federation of Independent Businesses did not immediately comment on the bill.
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