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DESCRIPTION:Let us gather to support dozens of courageous ex-workers of the DoBake 
 factory, fired through an I-9 audit or "silent raid," but now refusing to 
 go quietly. This will be their first press conference since the silent 
 raid.\n\nDobake Bakery Inc supplies major clients including the Oakland 
 Unified School District, 7-Eleven, Food Max, Grocery Outlet, and Safeway. 
 The stand these workers take is a stand for undocumented workers throughout 
 California and the United States — used, abused, exploited and deported. 
 This is the root of any true "immigration reform": everyday people 
 organizing to stand up to the assaults of employers and their government 
 enablers.\n\nDobake Bakeries Inc\n810 81st Ave, Oakland, California 
 94621-2510 \nApril 29th Monday at 11:00am\n\nVictims of Silent Ice Raids 
 under the Governments Unsecure communities lets stand in solidarity with 
 our Hermanos y Hermanas.\n\n\nTHE STORY:\n\nWhen DoBake industrial bakery 
 suddenly fired 125 workers through an I-9 audit, perhaps they were eager to 
 rid themselves of a troublesome element that could interfere with profits. 
 Some workers who had toiled in the factory for 10, 15, or even 20 years 
 were starting to ask for better wages and conditions. On the subject of the 
 I-9 audit, the union that was supposed to represent the workers didn't make 
 a peep: didn't even warn the workers that the firings were coming. When 50 
 workers pressed the union reps on why they didn't at least call a meeting, 
 the response was: "Each worker's situation is different."\n\nIn abrupt 
 joblessness, the workers seem to have found a certain commonality. Also, 
 too, in the opportunity to take a stand and fight back: in dignity and 
 resistance.\n\nA RECORD HIGH IN SILENT RAIDS NATIONALLY:\n\nThe former 
 DoBake workers are not alone in their experience: far from it. In 2012 The 
 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) hit a record high of 
 I-9 audits: more than 3,000. DoBake workers are joined by former workers of 
 Berkeley Pacific Steel, who were also fired by the hundreds after their 
 union successfully went on strike for better benefits. Fights like the 
 DoBake fight are about people's basic needs of jobs and dignity, but they 
 are also about a larger movement around immigrant rights (or lack thereof) 
 and hyper-exploitation in this country.\n\nTHE FIRST PUBLIC ACTION:\n\nCome 
 join the ex-workers of DoBake for a special press conference, on the very 
 same day that their spineless union reps, of BTCGM Local 125, will begin 
 contract negotiations with the company. The workers and community will join 
 together to remind the company *and* the union that this injustice will not 
 be swept under the rug.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/26/18735874.php
SUMMARY:DoBake Dignidad & Resistencia
LOCATION:Dobake Bakeries Inc\n810 81st Ave, Oakland, California 94621-2510
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/26/18735874.php
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