Stop racist harassment of black workers

12/29SF Picket-Rally Against Racist Attacks
by Coalition For Justice&Human Rights Thursday December 18, 2003 at 05:37 PM
a_labossiere1 [at] yahoo.com carltv214 [at] aol.com P.O.Box 15086 San Francisco, CA 94115

On 12/29/03 workers will protest continuing racist attacks and harassment at the SF PUC S.E. Pollution Control plant. The picket/rally will be held outside SF city hall at 4:30 PM



Stop Racist Harassment/Retaliation
At SF PUC S.E. Pollution Control Plant
Picket & Rally
Monday December 29, 2003 4:30 PM
San Francisco City Hall Steps
Polk St. Entrance


Despite continued racist attacks at the Hunter's Point/Bay View S.E. Pollution Control plant, the management at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission continues to terrorize and harass Black workers.
IUOE Local 39 stationary engineer Carmi Johnson found "hanging nooses" in her workplace and was harassed out of the plant. The latest example is the case of IFPTE Local 21 Ass. Chemist Anita Labossiere. Anita also faced racial harassment on the job and took a stress leave. She found "hanging nooses in her desk". When doctors said she could return to work, the city bosses called her doctors to pressure them to continue to prevent her from returning. When she recently received a doctor's certificate that it was ok to return to work she was first accepted back on the job and then turned away under a rule that said she was "violent".
This slander and harassment has to end. Behind this racist harassment and modern day segregation is the effort to privatize the workforce. SF City human resources director Andrea Guardine and PUC Personel Director Theresa Madden want to privatize and contract out all city jobs. Local 39 member Leticia Brown, IFPTE 21 member Anita Labossiere and IUOE Local 39 member Carmi Johnson have all testified at the PUC board board meetings about the workplace racism and terrorism but PUC Manager Pat Martell continues to cover-up this travesty and outrage. This has to stop NOW!
At the same time these managers are seeking to privatize the whole PUC system. Nathan Brennan., manager of operations and maintenance at the S.E. Pollution Control plant has publicly called for it's privatization. These bosses hope to get payoffs from private contractors who take over the work from the city. In the mean time they want to destroy civil service so they can bring in their cronies and eliminate competent city workers.
We will also be having a free Town Hall Community/Labor Speakout on Saturday Feb 7, 2004 at the Green House at 11:00 AM 4919 3rd St./Palou St. San Francisco
We say no to these attacks.
Working For The City Is A Living Hell
http://www.sfbayview.com/082003/workingforthecity082003.shtml
PUC-SF Stop Covering Up Racism
Say No To Segregation, Prejudice and Bigotry
Stop Segregated Working Conditions
No More Hanging Nooses and Racist Firings
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/16/MNL120088.DTL
Stop Modern Day Segregation
Abolish Human Resources
No More Plantation Politics
Stop Privatization of Civil Service Jobs


Coalition For Justice and Human Rights
P.O.Box 15086
San Francisco, CA 94115
a_labossiere1 [at] yahoo.com, carltv214 [at] aol.com
Endorsed by
San Francisco Bay View
Labor Action Coalition
Peace And Freedom Labor Committee
Campaign Against Taft-Hartley, Repression and Privatization