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2004-01-03 -- Stop Racist Harassment at City Facilities

Stop Racist Harassment/Retaliation
At SF PUC S.E. Pollution Control Plant

Picket & Rally: Friday, January 16, 4:30 PM

San Francisco City Hall Steps Polk St. Entrance

Despite continued racist attacks at the Hunter's Point/Bay View S.E.
Pollution Control plant, the management at the San Francisco Public
Utilities Commission continues to terrorize and harass Black workers.

IUOE Local 39 stationary engineer Carmi Johnson found "hanging nooses"
in her workplace and was harassed out of the plant.

The latest example is the case of IFPTE Local 21 Ass. Chemist Anita
Labossiere. Anita also faced racial harassment on the job and took a
stress leave. She found "hanging nooses in her desk". When doctors
said she could return to work, the city bosses called her doctors to
pressure them to continue to prevent her from returning. When she
recently received a doctor's certificate that it was ok to return to
work she was first accepted back on the job and then turned away under
a rule that said she was "violent".

This slander and harassment has to end. Behind this racist harassment
and modern day segregation is the effort to privatize the workforce.
SF City human resources director Andrea Guardine and PUC Personel
Director Theresa Madden want to privatize and contract out all city
jobs.

Local 39 member Leticia Brown, IFPTE 21 member Anita Labossiere and
IUOE Local 39 member Carmi Johnson have all testified at the PUC board
board meetings about the workplace racism and terrorism   but PUC
Manager Pat Martell continues to cover-up this travesty and outrage.

This has to stop NOW! At the same time these managers are seeking to
privatize the whole PUC system.  Nathan Brennan, manager of operations
and maintenance at the S.E. Pollution Control plant has publicly
called for it's privatization.

These bosses hope to get payoffs from private contractors who take
over the work from the city. In the mean time they want to destroy
civil service so they can bring in their cronies and eliminate
competent city workers.

We will also be having a free Town Hall Community/Labor Speakout on
Saturday Feb 7, 2004 at the Green House at 11:00 AM 4919 3rd St./Palou
St. San Francisco

For news stories on these incidents see:

http://www.sfbayview.com/082003/workingforthecity082003.shtml

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/08/16/MNL120088.
DTL


Coalition For Justice and Human Rights
P.O.Box 15086
San Francisco, CA 94115
a_labossiere1@yahoo.com, carltv214@aol.com

Endorsed by
San Francisco Bay View
Labor Action Coalition
Peace And Freedom Labor Committee
Campaign Against Taft-Hartley, Repression and Privatization