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Strike Breakers Out Of SF Hotels
SF District Supervisorial Candidate Steve Zeltzer is calling on the Mayor and the District Attorney To prosecute the strikebreakers who have been brought into SF to defeat the hotel strike. He is also supporting mass picket lines.
VICTORY TO SAN FRANCISCO HOTEL WORKERS!
10/3/04 STATEMENT BY STEVE ZELTZER
CANDIDATE FOR SF DISTRICT 9 SUPERVISOR
Dear Residents of District 9,
Today, thousands of our brothers and sisters in the hotels are on the picket line fighting for the right to healthcare for themselves and their families and the right to a decent wage. We know that it is growing ever more difficult for working people to survive in San Francisco.
They are facing some of the richest and biggest corporations in the world with profits of billions of dollars. These corporations are united but they refuse to allow hotel workers around the country to unite and have a single expiration date for their contracts. They want to be able to bring in scabs to San Francisco to break the hotel workers union.
I believe that the City Of San Francisco should support their struggle. Under Article 9.5 Section 650-654 under San Francisco’s Criminal Code it is illegal to bring in professional strike breakers to replace workers. I call on Mayor Newsom and District Attorney Kamala Harris to immediately investigate and challenge the strike breakers who have been brought into San Francisco to defeat the strike action and support the lock-out. Call Mayor Newsom and District Attorney Harris and ask them to enforce the law.
Furthermore, I believe that the city should have an ordinance preventing companies from replacing workers who go out on strike. If elected I will submit legislation to the Board to implement this need.
The action by Unite-HERE members must be supported by all working people. They are fighting against the growing attack on all our health care. In California with 6 million people without healthcare insurance, a defeat for Local 2 members will mean a threat to all those including workers and their families who presently have healthcare. These multi-billionaire hotel chain owners do not care whether you or I have healthcare but only how they can increase their super profits.
WHAT WE CAN DO NOW!
To Support the striking and locked out workers: Join them on the picket line at
Mark Hopkins, Crown Plaza, San Francisco Hilton, Grand Hyatt, Holiday Inn/Civic Center Holiday Inn/Express@Wharf, Holiday Inn/Fisherman’s Wharf, Hyatt Regency, OMNI Palace Hotel, St. Francis Hotel
Call these hotels at their 800 number's and ask them why they can’t afford to pay healthcare for their workers.
Get your union, church or community organization to adopt a hotel to support the workers.
Organize weekly support pickets and bring food for the workers.
Support mass marches and pickets to shutdown San Francisco to win this strike and help all other workers from the supermarket clerks to airline workers who now face healthcare cuts, pension cuts and two tier wages.
OUR SOLIDARITY CAN WIN THIS BATTLE
WITH THE CORPORATE ROBBER BARONS
For more information on my campaign go to
http://www.stevefor9.org
10/3/04 STATEMENT BY STEVE ZELTZER
CANDIDATE FOR SF DISTRICT 9 SUPERVISOR
Dear Residents of District 9,
Today, thousands of our brothers and sisters in the hotels are on the picket line fighting for the right to healthcare for themselves and their families and the right to a decent wage. We know that it is growing ever more difficult for working people to survive in San Francisco.
They are facing some of the richest and biggest corporations in the world with profits of billions of dollars. These corporations are united but they refuse to allow hotel workers around the country to unite and have a single expiration date for their contracts. They want to be able to bring in scabs to San Francisco to break the hotel workers union.
I believe that the City Of San Francisco should support their struggle. Under Article 9.5 Section 650-654 under San Francisco’s Criminal Code it is illegal to bring in professional strike breakers to replace workers. I call on Mayor Newsom and District Attorney Kamala Harris to immediately investigate and challenge the strike breakers who have been brought into San Francisco to defeat the strike action and support the lock-out. Call Mayor Newsom and District Attorney Harris and ask them to enforce the law.
Furthermore, I believe that the city should have an ordinance preventing companies from replacing workers who go out on strike. If elected I will submit legislation to the Board to implement this need.
The action by Unite-HERE members must be supported by all working people. They are fighting against the growing attack on all our health care. In California with 6 million people without healthcare insurance, a defeat for Local 2 members will mean a threat to all those including workers and their families who presently have healthcare. These multi-billionaire hotel chain owners do not care whether you or I have healthcare but only how they can increase their super profits.
WHAT WE CAN DO NOW!
To Support the striking and locked out workers: Join them on the picket line at
Mark Hopkins, Crown Plaza, San Francisco Hilton, Grand Hyatt, Holiday Inn/Civic Center Holiday Inn/Express@Wharf, Holiday Inn/Fisherman’s Wharf, Hyatt Regency, OMNI Palace Hotel, St. Francis Hotel
Call these hotels at their 800 number's and ask them why they can’t afford to pay healthcare for their workers.
Get your union, church or community organization to adopt a hotel to support the workers.
Organize weekly support pickets and bring food for the workers.
Support mass marches and pickets to shutdown San Francisco to win this strike and help all other workers from the supermarket clerks to airline workers who now face healthcare cuts, pension cuts and two tier wages.
OUR SOLIDARITY CAN WIN THIS BATTLE
WITH THE CORPORATE ROBBER BARONS
For more information on my campaign go to
http://www.stevefor9.org
For more information:
http://www.stevefor9.org
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I support the strike breakers. The people who are striking need to lose their jobs. They are noisy, greedy and irresponsible.
Why disturb the whole community over their crap.
To the supervisor:
Who the hell do you think you are?
Those people, who are striking, are screwing up a nice tourist season.
They(strikers) have been seen spitting on onlookers, and banging plastic buckets to no end. It is disgusting that anybody would support those strikers or should I say disturbers of the Peace.
Go home you frickin idiots.
Why disturb the whole community over their crap.
To the supervisor:
Who the hell do you think you are?
Those people, who are striking, are screwing up a nice tourist season.
They(strikers) have been seen spitting on onlookers, and banging plastic buckets to no end. It is disgusting that anybody would support those strikers or should I say disturbers of the Peace.
Go home you frickin idiots.
The strikers have been polite to all passersby, I know- I work nearby. If the hotels don't like the noise, tough. They're not going to squeeze blood money out of poor working people. Scab lover, go home and play with your scabs.
Read the whole glorious San Francisco Police Code, Article 9.5, Sections 650 through 654 entitled: Prohibiting of Professional Strikebreakers at
http://www.amlegal.com/sfpolice_nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=alp:sf_police
SEC. 652. UNLAWFUL CONDUCT.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any employer willingly and knowingly to utilize any professional strikebreaker to replace an employee or employees involved in a strike or lockout at a place of business located within the City and County of San Francisco.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any professional strikebreaker willingly and knowingly to offer himself for employment to replace, or to replace, an employee or employees involved in a strike or lockout at a place of business located within the City and County of San Francisco. (Added by Ord. 317-64, App. 11/30/64)
SEC. 653. VIOLATION.
Any person, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity, or officer or agent thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. (Added by Ord. 317-64, App. 11/30/64)
http://www.amlegal.com/sfpolice_nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=default.htm&vid=alp:sf_police
SEC. 652. UNLAWFUL CONDUCT.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any employer willingly and knowingly to utilize any professional strikebreaker to replace an employee or employees involved in a strike or lockout at a place of business located within the City and County of San Francisco.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any professional strikebreaker willingly and knowingly to offer himself for employment to replace, or to replace, an employee or employees involved in a strike or lockout at a place of business located within the City and County of San Francisco. (Added by Ord. 317-64, App. 11/30/64)
SEC. 653. VIOLATION.
Any person, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity, or officer or agent thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be subject to a fine not to exceed $500 or imprisonment not to exceed 90 days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. (Added by Ord. 317-64, App. 11/30/64)
For more information:
http://www.amlegal.com/sfpolice_nxt/gatewa...
Vons, Safeway, Ralphs, et al brought in professional strike breakers when they locked out their workers in LA. Getting SF to enforce this law for the hotel workers has implications for the grocery workers in their upcoming negotiations. Not that the hotel workers dont deserve the laws protection just as much. It certainly would send a message to the grocery companies that the cost of a strike would be higher, hurting the only thing they care about, their bottom line.
I don't know anything about relevant court cases, as in what defines a "professional strikebreaker". But Safeway and co. certainly hired a consultant who furnished people like that in the LA strike.
Mother Jones, do you know if other Bay Area cities lilke Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, etc have similar laws? That would be useful to know.
I don't know anything about relevant court cases, as in what defines a "professional strikebreaker". But Safeway and co. certainly hired a consultant who furnished people like that in the LA strike.
Mother Jones, do you know if other Bay Area cities lilke Oakland, Berkeley, Richmond, etc have similar laws? That would be useful to know.
unconstitutional bullshit.
you wanna explain what you mean by unconstitutional?
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