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Urgent: Doubletree in Berkeley on the Marina is Going to Fire Immigrant Workers Today

by upton sinclair (irlandeso [at] riseup.net)
Community members delegated management last week and their response was to send HERE Local 2850 a letter stating all workers would be fired on July 1.
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URGENT!

Immigrant workers at the Doubletree are being fired
today, July 1, solely based on SSA "No-Match" letters.
We can't let this occur!

Today, Thursday July 1 at 5:30pm. Meet in the parking lot
of the Doubletree.

Join Community and Political leaders on a delegation to
Doubletree GM George Rogers.

Community members delegated management last week and their
response was to send HERE Local 2850 a letter stating all
workers would be fired on July 1. Doubletree workers have
been on an organizing campaign for upcoming negotiations
and the management is attempting to intimidate immigrant
workers.

Contact Sonia Bustamante (510) 893-3181 ext. 121

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by eb
Sorry, but an SSN non match means that they are using someone else's SSN, which is just a teensy bit illegal. The bad news is that when you use someone else's SSN, all your credit for time worked and amount contributed goes to the holder of the real SSN. Sorry! Game over.
by upton sinclair
Sorry but what is wrong with paying taxes into a false SSN? What then ends up happening is that the Govt and "citizens" end up benefiting even more from the work of "illegal" immigrants when they reap a multi-million dollar windfall each year of money paid into the system that can not be taken back out by anyone cause it is based on a fake identity and SSN.
Think about that...and remember the old addage above.
by Eugene V. Debs
What's going on today?
So i just heard that the workers that were threatened by the general manager of the doubletree to be fired yesterday for having badd social security numbers were given a 30 day reprieve because of community pressure yesterday and last week. the doubletree management may not yet know how amazing the workers are at the doubletree, or how much support they have in the community, but if they check their history a little...They will quickly realize that the support for the workers at the Doubletree(formerly the Radisson)is very strong in this community and area, and the workers will call them in whenever they are faced with any threats or difficulties in renegotiating their contract.

more to come soon...as the workers and community support organize and call for whatever they need in the way of help, or merely update us on the situation.
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