#NPWW may be coming to an end, but public works never sleeps! #PublicWorks contributes to advancing and enhancing our quality of life and these professionals provide #essentialservices that lead to healthier, happier, more vibrant #communities. #WeArePublicWorks #montgomeryCountyMD #Maryland

@sfbaykeeper

"Before EPA and laws like the Clean Water Act, America's waters were choked with pollution. Ohio's Cuyahoga River, which became a symbol of environmental degradation in the 60s, was so polluted that it repeatedly caught fire."

My goodmess! There's a cautionary tale right there! 😐

Fancy choosing to return to those days... And for those who say privatisation will take it from here, now that govt's out of the service loop: who will have funds to pay for it with Mango Muffin & Melon Husk tanking the US economy?

#Consequences
#ReconnectingConsequencesToCauses
#EPA
#CleanWater #PublicHealth #EssentialServices

Healthcare is a fundamental necessity, just like public safety ( #police ) and emergency services ( #firefighting ) . It's not optional, it's essential. #HealthcareIsARight #PrimaryNeeds #EssentialServices #universalhealth

Resilienz

Règlement délégué (UE) 2023/2450 de la Commission du 25 juillet 2023 complétant la directive (UE) 2022/2557 du Parlement européen et du Conseil en établissant une liste de services essentiels

http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/2450/oj

#CERdirective #EssentialServices #InfrastructuresCritiques #resilience #résilience #CHD8307 #CriticalEntitiesResilience #CER

Nei Publikatioun vun @msb

als Ënnerstetzung fir Bedreiwer vu kritischen Infrastrukturen / Services essentiels

site: https://www.msb.se/sv/aktuellt/nyheter/2024/september/uppdaterat-stod-for-arbete-med-motstandskraft-i-samhallsviktig-verksamhet/

pdf: https://rib.msb.se/filer/pdf/30783.pdf

#Standards
#Risikomanagement #BusinessContinuity #Kontinuitätsmanagement #Cybersécherheet
#Informatiounssécherheet
#Guidelines #Checklists #MSB #EssentialServices #ServicesEssentiels #criticalinfrastructure #InfrastructuresCritiques #resilience #résilience #BCM

pull up the covers
what crazy souls brave such snow?
just those we pay least
we aspire to be paid more
so we needn't work so hard

#tanka (5-7-5-7-7 #haiku #senryu) #poem #ShortPoem #MinimumWage #EssentialServices #Capitalism #Inequality #narrative #society

We pay according to skill, or so goes the narrative, but there are other things people bring to the job.

Later we talk as if those making better money "worked harder", when often that skill we're paying for means they worked less hard.

And then later we indulge a narrative that money measures virtue or contribution.

What of the virtue of reliably being on the job on a snowy day, with no pay at all for the time it takes to shovel out one's own car or wait in the cold for mass transit to ploddingly get one to work?

...of accepting hard work at minimum pay just to feed yourself or your family?

...of listening to the self-righteous narratives of the rich about who works harder or takes the risk and not just pulling pitchforks out of the closet and storming the castle?

Are these not virtues, too?

Our grocery store workers, our gas station attendants, our fast food workers, mail carriers, our teachers, our nurses, our government officials. Those who provide essential services. Do we dignify these people with our respect? With a proper wage? Paying a lesser wage helps us feel better about ignoring them.

Maybe paying better would reshape our notion of how much things cost. Is that different than saying it's more important that things be cheap than than things be just? Is that OUR philosophy of virtue?

These other virtues of essential workers are invisible to capitalism's theory of value. They are just another externality we allow capitalism to suck dry without having to financially account.

Capitalism says it doesn't pay retail and restaurant workers well because they don't bring a skill. Anyone could do what they do.

Could they? Really? I don't know if I could.

Maybe these are just fictions we tell ourselves so we feel good pulling up the covers and going back to sleep on mornings like this. Those of us who get to, I mean.

Sleep well.

Those moments you actually have to explain to collection agency agents that before they go through and start having 6 different phone lines call the hospital incessently and hang up 10 seconds later, just to call again. Because someone put the hospital as their point of contact for debt collection. That infact, the lines going to this number are EMERGENCY SERVICES, and that could they please take that into consideration before sicking the auto-dialers on me?
Oh and the fact that you will be directly responsible for someones death if you do. And that i am unable to access any pertinent hr records as that would breach hospital privacy and i have no access to them as such. So I can not do anything for them at this time, But i'll forward you to HR who won't be here for 4 more hours, Don't you worry one bit >.> #ReallyTryingHere #essentialServices #SarcasmsoIsMyFont

CNBC: 5 #caregiving terms to help you access #essentialservices and #reduceexpenses for an #aging parent
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/30/what-you-need-to-know-about-caregiving-for-an-aging-parent.html

Lost power at around 10AM Christmas Eve with next update not due until 2PM Christmas Day.

Too bad if you need a CPAP to sleep, or want to cook food/keep your food from spoiling…

#BNEWeather #EssentialServices #Poverty #auspol #NeverCatchABreak

CAQM had earlier said the ban on diesel generators, imposed every winter to mitigate air pollution, would also cover essential services.
#DieselGenerators #NCR #EssentialServices #YearEnd #CAQM #MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians
https://www.news18.com/india/diesel-generators-allowed-in-ncr-for-essential-services-till-year-end-says-caqm-8597602.html

#Privatization #FullCircle #CircleJerks #EssentialServices

Last week, I attended a University meeting involving buildings in science. I ask about where we could find space for childcare. When I have done this in previous meetings. I’m stared at like I am a unicorn. This time I got a response and the rest of the too erupted into nervous laughter.

See, I’m making progress. Sigh.
#parenting #childcare #essentialservices #academia #womeninstem

Essential Services zine was created by a journalist in Aotearoa, after their employer Bauer Media shut down all their NZ operations during the level 4 COVID lockdown. Issue 1 is free to download from their website:
https://essentialserviceszine.com/file/Essential-Services-Zine_1.pdf

#Aotearoa #NZ #EssentialServices #Bauer Media

அவசர பயண அனுமதி வழங்கும் முறையில் மாற்றம்

https://www.patrikai.com/chief-secy-k-shanmugam-cancels-powers-given-to-tahsildars-hereafter-only-collectors-in-districts-in-chennai-corpn-co/

#essentialservices #EssentialWork #MovementControlOrder #movement #movementrestrictionorder

Removing their own frustrations. #essentialservices #Lockdown21
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RT @iScrew@twitter.activitypub.actor
Police or hooligans? This is Ahmedabad Police, Gujarat on rampage overturning vegetable carts and terrorising poor hawkers. #CoronavirusLockdown
https://twitter.com/iScrew/status/1244904980794019840

#மோடி-யின் 21 நாள் அடைப்பால் #கொரோனா அழியாது – மக்கள் மடிவார்கள் : ஆங்கில நாளேடு

https://www.patrikai.com/due-to-21-days-lock-down-corona-wont-detroy-but-people-die-of-poverty-the-print/

#CoronavirusLockdown @INCTamilNadu@twitter.com @arivalayam@twitter.com @AIADMKOfficial@twitter.com @maiamofficial@twitter.com @CMOTamilNadu@twitter.com @INCIndia@twitter.com @mkstalin@twitter.com @RahulGandhi@twitter.com #ModiGovt #essentialservices #essentialbusiness

வரும் 27, 28 தேதிகளில் கோயம்பேடு காய்கறி மார்கெட் விடுமுறை

https://www.patrikai.com/corona-coming-27-and-28-koyambedu-vegetable-market-is-on-holiday/

#Koyambedu #vegetables #vegetable #essentialservices #coronavirusindia #CoronavirusLockdow

RT @velumania@twitter.com

Our vehicle went to collect the personnel protective Equipments PPE, needed for #COVID testing. But vehicle was not allowed to go from Mumbai to Thane. Word #EssentialServices no cop understands. We do not know who will redress this. #COVID testing stalled. https://twitter.com/ganeshk03/status/1242016522609913856

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/velumania/status/1242029884400001024