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Honk for Safety!
On Thursday, June 11 4 p.m., Meet at 100 Oak St. and Caravan to Highland Hospital
Join your elected Bargaining Team members, your Contract Action Team members, and your co-workers for a rally and car caravan to demand fair bargaining, proper coronavirus testing, and public accountability across AHS.
RSVP to the MRC: 1-877-687-1021
Oakland Members and the Community Reject Mayor Schaaf’s Cruel Cuts Amidst COVID-19
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.
City of Oakland workers, together with IFPTE Local 21 members and community representatives from groups including ACCE Action, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE), and Oakland Rising came together to protest the Mayor’s cruel cuts in a creative, safe way that observed social distancing precautions by decorating their cars with posters and shirts and forming a car caravan to drive around Oakland’s Lake Merritt on the evening of Tuesday, May 26.
Lina Hernandez, a temporary, part-time library worker, said “I’m a young parent in Oakland’s sixth district, and I’m a proud Oaklander, and until recently, I was a proud Oakland city employee. But I have recently received a layoff notice. I’m one of the city’s roughly one thousand ‘temporary, part-time’ workers. I’ve been with the city for four years. That doesn’t feel temporary to me.”
VICTORY! City of Napa workers protect their community by fighting off job cuts amidst COVID-19
“We need the revised estimated expenditures that we have asked for weeks on end to have transparency, to have a dialogue, to get a real gasp of what the city’s financial position is,” said Kendra Bruno, a city waste diversion specialist and Local 1021 member. “This is not a game to us; this is about protecting the community and the level of services we provide.”
On May 27, Napa City officials formally delayed the implementation of 71 planned layoffs after workers and community allies organized a digital press conference to call out officials’ inflated financial reports and divisive communication tactics.
Napa members’ fight continues. In the past few weeks, members started posting yard signs on their lawns to advocate for their jobs by urging the City Council to “Save Napa Parks and Recs”.
You can stand against cuts with our fellow members by taking one minute to sign the online petition today. So far we’ve collected over 8,350 signatures.
Tell your CA legislator: Pass a Recovery Budget for All!
This pandemic has exposed our nation’s – and California’s – greatest weaknesses: inequality, racism, exclusion of immigrants, and the economic vulnerability of the vast majority of people, whether poor, working class, or middle class.
We cannot pass a budget that reproduces this injustice. Click here to send an email telling your CA legislator to pass a recovery budget for all.
SEIU frontline workers went from being invisible – to being “essential” – and now they’re on the chopping block. That’s not right.
We’re asking for a budget that:
- Generates new revenue from large corporations and the wealthy
- Includes no trigger cuts – this is a bad idea from the past and must not be repeated
- Includes no cuts that negatively impact working communities, low-income families, and communities of color
- Includes all immigrant workers and families regardless of status in our healthcare and economic safety nets
We need a bold, new approach – investing in our frontline communities who have risked so much to keep us safe AND asking for those who have benefitted the most from our economy to step up and contribute more. The time for courageous action is NOW, not next year. We can’t allow our state to kick the can down the road.
Click here now to email your CA legislator and tell them to pass a recovery budget for all.
Oakland Members and the Community Reject Mayor Schaaf’s Cruel Cuts
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.
Tell Council: WE REJECT THE MAYOR’S CUTS
June 1, 2020
Dear City of Oakland Co-Worker:
The Mayor and her administration are predicting tough times ahead and major budget problems, and have called on City workers to accept deep cuts. Specifically, the Mayor has asked 1021 members to:
Show up to tell the city we reject their cuts: Lake Merritt Car Caravan Tuesday, May 26, at 5:30 p.m.
May 22, 2020
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.
Stand together to tell the Mayor: “You trim a tree from the TOP”
May 15, 2020
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.
An Update and a Call to Action
May 8, 2020
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: