M10:1 Video

My mom has been working at the Monterey County Courthouse for 35 years. The three branches are Salinas (Criminal), Monterey (Family Law), and Marina (Traffic). The Salinas building has been around since 1930 and my mom has spent her career between Salinas and Monterey. The issue that has plagued the Salinas Courthouse until its recent renovation is Asbestos. A good handful of my mom’s friends and/or collogues, have been diagnosed with cancer. Some are survivors of the diagnosis while others have not been so lucky. What they had in common, is working in the Salinas branch courthouse. 

I feel that the issue has already been addressed because the oldest part of the building has just finished a renovation/upgrade to get rid of the Asbestos. It took years to make the change and I think that many current and past employees were being diagnosed with cancer. I hope someone took the data into consideration for the change linking the courthouse, cancer, and Asbestos together. 

A barrier to workers exercising their rights to a healthy and safe workplace is budget, management, and people higher than you not listening. I used to work for a nonprofit until recently and every Friday the manager would bring in donuts. I love sweets but sometimes I would rather eat fruit or something at work. On three occasions I told the manager if she could bring fruit instead of donuts on Friday and she said “it’s not in the budget”. NO JOKE, that is a direct quote from her!!! And my response was “and donuts ARE in the budget”? I even suggested that she spend the Friday donut money on half donut and half fruit. Yeah, that NEVER happened. So, another barrier could be stubbornness (and I say stubborn so I don’t get in trouble for foul language, lol).