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As Oakland’s strength is being tested by the COVID-19 pandemic, Mayor Libby Schaaf has attacked city workers. First, she issued pre-emptive layoff notices to a thousand so-called “temporary, part-time” workers, many of whom have worked for Oakland for years. Then, she proposed weeks of furlough days and postponing wage increases. At the same time, she was busy appointing her cronies to high-paid positions in the City Administrator’s office.

Dear City of Oakland Co-Worker:

Dear co-worker:

I hope you are staying safe in this difficult time. The Mayor has followed up her plan to lay off some 800 of our temporary, part-time co-workers, many of whom have worked alongside us for years, by asking us to sit down with her and her team to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

We Have to Stand Together to Tell the Mayor:
Put People Before Profits!

 Dear City of Oakland Co-Worker:

Just this morning, Mayor Libby Schaaf said on KTVU Channel 2 that she stood for “people before profits.” This is just not true, as our temporary, part-time co-workers who were just issued layoff notices can prove.

Dear City of Oakland co-worker:

This week has mostly been more of the same from the City of Oakland. They have implemented plans that hurt workers without planning or meeting with the workers in advance, they have engaged in dishonest budgeting that seems more interested in hiding money than using it, and they abruptly cancelled a City Council meeting where important votes were scheduled to deal with the pandemic and appoint the new City Administrator. 

This update covers three items: