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Image may contain: text that says 'UNFLPA Our union joins Players and @unitehere in calling for Governor Gavin Newsom to sign Assembly Bill 3216. As a players union we worked hard to build protections for our members. This bill will extend important protections to hospitality and service workers statewide We stand in solidarity with service workers everywhere, but especially call on protections to support those hit hardest by the pandemic.'
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"Rally Under the Stars" Castlewood 8/26/10
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7/29/10 Hilton Oakland Airport Rally
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We need Carroll Fife for Oakland City Council in District 3 because she knows workers and tenants are the heart of our community, not “outside special interests”!

Image may contain: text that says 'T-Mobile Wi-Fi 4:27 PM See More > 76% Re-elect Lynette Gibson McElhaney for Oakland City Council 2h Public I've been a proud progressive, rockin with Democrats my entire life--which is more than can be said of my primary opponent in this race. So it's strange that outside special interests are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to try and convince my community that I'm not. Y'all know who am, and who fight for. I'll let my Progressive record speak for itself--and let their sleazy attacks speak for them. Receipts: https/ww.ynetefoaoland.com/ accomplishments RE-ELECT lynette McElhaney OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL'
Liz Ortega-Toro

Earlier today a message posted by Oakland City Councilmember McElhaney called the union members that I proudly represent "outside special Interest.” My direct r...esponse to her and others is this; your reference to our union members as outside special interest is only 1/3 accurate. Our union members are "special" but they are not outsiders. YOU voted against Oakland essential workers and their only "interest" is protecting their families from the developers you have befriended. Not outsiders — they live and work in this community! The frontline workers, nurses, firefighters, construction workers, city service workers, grocery workers who keep Oakland moving and who have faced great hardship through this pandemic, are not “outside special interests,” they are the backbone of this community.

Carroll Fife the Leader We Need Oakland D3. #vote2020#UnionMade.

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STATEMENT ON GOVERNOR'S VETO OF AB3216

We don’t want to sugar coat this. The Governor’s veto of AB3216 is devastating to the housekeepers, cooks, dishwashers and servers who built the hospitality industry, especially women of color. The bill would simply have allowed hospitality workers to return to their jobs as the industry reopens. It is hard to imagine how to undo the economic damage this veto causes.

The pain for immigrant workers is compounded by the Governor's addit...ional vetoes of AB 826 (emergency food assistance to immigrants), SB 1257 (workplace safety protections for domestic workers), SB1102 (protecting employment rights of immigrant farmworkers), and AB331 (high school ethnic studies). Our families and communities lose with the combined impact of these actions. Most concerning of all is the Governor’s failure to oppose Proposition 22, which would lock low-wage workers in insecure jobs with no rights to organize. Defeating Proposition 22 is the most important battle for labor rights waged in decades, and there would be no excuse for any Democrat to stand on the sidelines of it.

We need an economic recovery that is centered on working people, not on the profits of big corporations. Our members cannot be window dressing for bailouts to the hospitality industry. We invite on all working people to join the struggle for a true economic recovery, which will be won in the streets. Our members are already on the ground walking door to door in Nevada, Arizona and Florida to elect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. We must unite to defeat Proposition 22. When we’re done winning this election, we'll return to pushing our elected leaders to stand with the workers who fought so hard to elect them.

Enrique Fernandez, President of the California State Council of UNITE HERE, on behalf of the California affiliates of UNITE HERE International Union.

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