SEIU 1021 Oakland Port Workers To Strike On 11/21-Picket Lines At Terminals Being Set Up

SEIU 1021 Oakland Port Workers To Strike On 11/21-Picket Lines At Terminals Being Set Up

 
Alysabeth Alexander <Alysabeth.Alexander(at)seiu1021.org>
Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:44 PM
Subject: Please sign a statement to support SEIU 1021 Port Workers!!
Dear Friend,

SEIU 1021 Port Workers are Going on Strike against Unfair Labor Practices engaged in by the Port of Oakland.  The Port of Oakland has a $37 million surplus, yet refuses to give workers the proper information that they are required to by law.  This is one of the richest Port's in Oakland, the Federal Government has invested in the expansion of the Port to create good jobs in Oakland... and now the Port is refusing to Bargain.  
 
We are asking for your support!  
Please come out on Tuesday, November 21 at the Port of Oakland:

9 AM: SSA Terminal 1717 Middle Harbor, Berth 57-59 
12 PM Noon: Terminal 1 Oakland Airport
5 PM: SSA Terminal 1717 Middle Harbor, Berth 57-59
 
And please sanction our strike by signing the letter below!
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
 
All the best, and thank you!
 
Alysabeth
 

 
Dear President Gilda Gonzales and Port Commissioners:

 
The Port of Oakland should set the standard for good jobs in our region. Unfortunately, Port executives continue to demand wage cuts and concessions from their workers while they sit on an enviable surplus. This undermines the community's need for good jobs in a sustainable and growing economy.

 
Port executives have illegally withheld vital information related to SEIU Local 1021’s contract bargaining. They are threatening to impose economic concessions at a time when there is clearly no need. At the end of the fiscal year 2012, the Port ended with a staggering $37 million surplus.

 
I stand with Port Workers in their demand for better financial reform and oversight of public funds and for a fair contract. Media investigations reveal that top Port officials have been misusing public funds – including $1,000 golf outings, $4,500 at a strip club in Houston and $500 at a business suspected as a front for prostitution.

 
I call on Ms. Gonzales and the rest of the Board of Port Commissioners to do the right thing by holding management accountable, implementing better financial reform, treating port workers with respect, and negotiating a fair contract.

 
I sanction the Port Workers’ strike, and stand by them in their fight to maintain good jobs at the Port of Oakland.

 
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