Additionally, to evade contractual requirements to pay such benefits, the administration will lay off workers before they have worked 1040 hours.

Some pages are part-time college students, but the vast majority are immigrant workers. Many hold down two jobs while supporting their families here, and/or sending money home to family members in their countries of origin.

A meeting of 120 pages at Service Employees International Union Local 780 headquarters heard a report by the business agent on the negotiations with the administration. A second meeting to lay out a campaign against this attack on the union will be held next week.

Toba Singer
San Francisco, California
 
 
Yemeni seafarer
While selling the Militant to dockworkers at the Port of Oakland, the crew that had just brought in a container ship from China came out of the gates looking for a cab to take into town. One of the crewmen, a 24-year-old member of the Seafarers International Union from Yemen, bought a Militant because of the coverage on the Palestinian struggle. "I don’t know that much about the dockworkers’ fight here," he told us. "But this looks like a good place to read about it."

Bill Kalman
Albany, California


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