PICKET with UC Berkeley I-House Service Workers!

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Wednesday, May 04, 2011

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5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Protest

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AFSCME 3299

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PICKET with I-House Service Workers... against Poverty & Understaffing! Wednesday, May 4 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location International House, UC Berkeley Piedmont & BancroftBerkeley, CA

PICKET with I-House Service Workers... against Poverty & Understaffing! Wednesday, May 4 · 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location International House, UC Berkeley Piedmont & Bancroft Berkeley, CA

WHAT: Picket and Rally to support I-House workers; Demand Chancellor Birgeneau spend a day in the life of a service worker!
WHERE: International House Annual "Gala" Fundraiser, with Chancellor
in attendance! Piedmont & Bancroft
WHEN: Wednesday May 4th, 5:30pm-7:30pm
RSVP: afscme.local3299 [at] gmail.com
I-House Food Service are FIGHTING BACK!

I-House workers' are confronting UC's future: contracting out, abuse of temporary workers, short-staffing, workplace injuries! In 5 years, staffing has gone from more than 25 full time career staff, to 10!

Management is still short-changing the staff and students and refusing to stop hiring contractors, end the abuse of temporary workers and post 8 career positions.

This action workers say ya Basta! Enough is Enough! Chancellor Birgeneau will be attending the I-House "Gala" -- workers will continue to press for their demand that he walk a day in the shoes of a low-wage worker in HIS campus. Not at work,but at home, to see what it really means to live on $25,000 a year.

call (510) 486-0100
Sign the petition for I-House workers here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/makeihousedininghallssafe/
Watch "Hanging By A Thread" Comparing the lives of UC's service workers to the Regents, what's wrong with this picture??? http://hangingbyathreaduc.org/

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Donald Evans
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Mon, May 2, 2011 11:16PM

Thanks for doing that. When I lived there 8 years ago, a split room cost nearly $1000/month, and there are 600 residents of Ihouse. I don't even want to see what rates are now. Where the heck does the money go? They're not exactly paying off a mortgage. In other states, dorms are much cheaper, so you'd think that the extra money here would go to cafeteria workers.

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