TESTIMONY
Testimony by Ligia M. Guallpa from the Workers' Justice Project: Supporting Safe Street and Device Legislation
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Ligia M. Guallpa, the Executive Director of the Workers' Justice Project, presents testimony in support of a package of bills focused on street and device safety. Particularly backing Intro 065, Intro 067, and Intro 066, Guallpa emphasizes the need for transparency and accountability at the point of sale for devices. She highlights the misinformation faced by consumers and delivery workers regarding the certification and safety of devices. Guallpa supports mandatory safety training and certified devices provided by app companies, with an interest in adjustments to protect workers from retaliation.
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Well, thank you so much, chairwoman, and it's a pleasure to be here speaking.
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On behalf of Workers' Justice Project.
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So my name is Likia Waldpa.
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I'm the Executive Director of the Workers' Justice project, and we are a worker's rights organization that has been organizing low wage workers since 2010.
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And I'm here to testify in support of a package of bills that are being heard today, especially package of bills that is being let by 2 important partners, Council member, Gail Brewer, and Council member Oswald Feliz, who have been working to make sure that We built actually, make sure that there is more safety in our streets, especially when it comes to lithium batteries and the street safety.
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We're strongly support, particularly bill intro 065, intro 067, and intro 0 66.
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We strongly believe that this is the right path to create more transparency and accountability on the point of sale what some things that we have observed on the ground is that many, especially consumers who happens to be delivered Easter's and non delivered Easter's when they buy many of these devices.
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Very often, they're not informed by the retail stores, whether they're certified, whether they're safe, nor information is provided.
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And we strongly believe this is the right approach to make sure that we hold retail stores and manufacturers more accountable and make them more transparent, particularly with consumers.
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Who sometimes are misled and misinformed about which devices are are safe and unsafe.
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And Also, we strongly support the approach of intros 0073, which mandates safety training, and also We strongly support the the concept of 06a, which mandates also the app companies to provide safe and certified batteries and devices to do this work.
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Something we wanna work in adjusting is about making sure that when we're thinking about this approach.
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We protect workers from retaliation, and we don't subject we don't We don't set working conditions for workers to enter and do this work since many of them rely as one of the few jobs that immigrants black brown people rely to feed their families and pay their rent.
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So we look forward to working with Council member Gale Brewer and Oswaldo Feliz on making some adjustments to this bill.
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That we strongly support.
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Thank you.
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And I'm gonna pass it on to Alejandro.
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You wanna try?
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Yeah.