Archives: Updates
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Another Raise for City Managers but Not for Workers
The City of Berkeley is the “Employer of Choice” for your boss. After a big unveiling this week, it turns out that the Employer of Choice strategy is to give City Managers more raises. This week was doozy. City Management did what they do best: Whatever impact COVID is having on the job market, management…
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City Management Declares COVID-19 Over, Despite Nearly 500 Deaths per Day
Photo Pixabay Since 2020, you’ve dutifully risked your life to keep Berkeley running. Now your boss, despite all evidence, is pretending that the pandemic and all related impacts are over. When convenient, they cheaply and disingenuously claim that you are an ‘essential worker.’ But with three years under your belt, you know their words are…
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A Righteous Fight: Berkeley Workers Force Council to Pass Strongest ‘Fair Workweek’ Law in Nation
Last night, SEIU 1021 members and their allies in labor and community forced the Council to pass a law protecting thousands of workers citywide from last-minute reduction or addition of unwanted shifts. The law also bans unwanted clopening shifts, and critically, requires employers to offer additional hours to part-time workers before hiring new part-time employees.
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Join Berkeley UC/Lab Workers on STRIKE – beginning Monday 11/14!
Our Berkeley labor siblings, members of the UAW academic student employees—teaching assistants, graduate student instructors, tutors, readers, and postdocs—across the University of California system and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, are asking for your solidarity in the biggest fight of their union lives! I hope you will join us in solidarity with workers: – Join a…
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City execs enjoy windfall raises 🤑, workers & community suffer under vacancy + inflation crises
OCTOBER UPDATE City executives enjoy windfall raises while workers & community services suffer under vacancy & inflation crises 🤑 WHERE ARE MY COWORKERS? Member fight for transparency reveals stunning 14% citywide vacancy rate 📈 City administrative incompetence threatens our members in the library and public works departments who face double digit vacancy rates. Vacancies mean…