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Community Picket of Mi Pueblo Market!

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Date:
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Time:
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Rebecca for Decolonize Oakland
Location Details:
Mi Pueblo Mercado 1630 High Street, Oakland

October 20th, 1-4pm
Mi Pueblo Mercado 1630 High Street, Oakland


The Dignity and Resistance Coalition, a network of Pacific Steel Workers, Decolonize Oakland, United Farm Workers, The Left Party and many others, invites you to say NO to worker and immigrant repression by picketing Mi Pueblo Market!

After years of unresolved labor disputes, the Mi Pueblo Market chain has retaliated against employees by implementing E-Verify, a government database that allows Mi Pueblo to refuse work to undocumented workers. Now Mi Pueblo claims the government has launched an I-9 Audit, which will identify undocumented workers to be fired. However, it is against the law to launch I-9 Audits in corporations like Mi Pueblo where workers are actively organizing for their rights!

We will NOT stand by and watch community members be targeted for their immigration status! Additionally, Mi Pueblo faces complaints for gender discrimination and harassment and not hiring African Americans, even in stores with a large number of African American customers.

We DEMAND Mi Pueblo stop all unfair labor practices, discrimination, and re-hire fired workers immediately! We call on the community to support Mi Pueblo workers' rights to organize without Juvenal Chavez's (the owner) intimidation and retaliation! JOIN US FOR AN INFORMATIONAL PICKET!

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Después de años de disputas sin resolver, la cadena de mercados Mi Pueblo toma represalias en contra de sus trabajador@s mediante la implementación de E-verify, una base de datos gubernamental que le permite a Mi Pueblo negar trabajo a trabajador@s sin documentos. Ahora, Mi Pueblo argumenta que el gobierno ha iniciado una auditoría I-9 que identificará a personas sin documentos para despedirlas; pero ¡es contra la ley lanzar una auditoría I-9 cuando l@s trabajador@s se están organizando activamente para proteger sus derechos! ¡NO vamos a quedarnos parados viendo cómo nuestras familias y miembros de la comunidad están siendo atacados por su condición migratoria! También, Mi Pueblo enfrenta demandas de acoso sexual, discriminación de género y racismo, pues no contrata a la gente afroamericana aún en tiendas con amplia clientela afroamericana.

¡DEMANDAMOS que Mi Pueblo detenga todas sus prácticas laborales injustas y recontrate inmediatamente a quienes ha despedido!

¡Convocamos a la comunidad para que apoye el derecho de l@s trabajadores de Mi Pueblo a organizarse sin la intimidación ni represalias de Juvenal Chavez (El dueño).

¡PARTICIPA EN LA PROTESTA INFORMATIVA! ¡PASA LA VOZ!
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