Hunger Strikers at City Hall

Approximately two years ago, the City and County of San Francisco, and specifically Mayor Newsom, instructed the Department of Public Works (DPW) to establish a new category of laborers, recruited from neighborhoods like the Fillmore and Bayview/Hunters Point, to clean city streets. DPW then fired dozens of San Francisco workers, most of them from those same neighborhoods of the Fillmore and Bayview/Hunters Point, to hire new workers at one-half the wage. Many of the laid-off workers were categorized as "provisional workers," even though they had worked for DPW for three, eight, or more years.

Due to the courageous organizing of these DPW workers, and with the support of the SF Labor Council and others, most of these workers have been re-instated to city jobs.

But eleven of the laid-off DPW workers remain without their jobs! The Mayor refuses to meet with them, the Board of Supervisors is no longer advocating for them.

The laid-off DPW workers and their allies will be holding a week-long hunger strike in front of SF City Hall, beginning August 21 at 8 am, and ending on August 25 at 5:00 pm. They need your support! Stop union-busting in San Francisco!

INJUSTICE TO ONE WORKER IS AN INJUSTICE TO ALL WORKERS! THE DPW WORKERS WILL CONTINUE TO ORGANIZE UNTIL EVERY SINGLE WORKER IS PUT BACK TO WORK!

For more information, call Renee Saucedo, (415) 553-3404.

Earlier Indybay coverage:
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2005/02/23/29322.php