Golden Gate Labor Coalition Members Speak Out!
Golden Gate Bridge Labor Coalition members, including unionized deckhands, captains, terminal assistants, mechanics, and other District workers all have been fighting for a new contract and to keep healthcare affordable for their families since April of 2011. The Golden Gate Bridge General Manager and Board have insisted on concessions to help them out of a short term budget challenge but have given the non-union employees at the District a raise in July of 2011. At the table, the union coalition has offered major concessions worth an estimated $2 million per year, and has been told by management that the District's financial needs have been met. The District is now insisting on principle, not on real economic need, that union members should be forced into a healthcare premium sharing plan that unfairly burdens families with the highest costs. The District is also insisting that retirees' vested healthcare benefits should be reduced. While the Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Transportation District misguided policy of under staffing the ferries and buses means that boats, overloaded with bicycles, run later and later, stranding commuters.
Please watch the video and email or call Janet Reilly, President of the Board Of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge District at 415-921-5858.
TV News Video Clips:
CBS 5-Striking GG Ferry Workers, Occupy Activists Join In May Day Protests
CBS 5-Striking Ferry Workers Picket In May Day Protest
KTVU- LARKSPUR: Strick to shut down morning Golden Gate Ferry service Tuesday
ABC- Golden Gate Ferry Service to resume after strike
KTVU- Strike to shut down Golden Gate Ferry service Tuesday morning
Golden Gate Bridge District Press Release
KRON 4- Update: May Day Demonstrations Underway As Union Workers Stage One Day Strikes
ABC- Golden Gate Ferry strike planned for Tuesday
KALW Radio 91.7 FM- May Day brings unions and Occupy together
Print Media:
KTVU-Strike to shut down Golden Gate Ferry service Tuesday morning
KTVU Channel 2 News-Oakland May Day protest triggers arrests and tear gas
San Francisco Bay Guardian-May Day protests begin with ferry workers strike
CBS NEWS-US May Day protests planned, may disrupt commutes
Bloomber News-Occupy Starts New York May Day Protests With Chants, Waltzes
Business Week- Immigrant, labor, Occupy groups join for protests
New York Times-Arrests and Clashes Downtown as May Day Protests Spread
USA Today-Stinging gas sends May Day protesters in Oakland fleeing
BBC NEWS-Occupy Wall Street stages day of US protests
San Jose Mercury News-San Francisco Bay Area: May Day Protests 2012
UTICA Observer Dispatch-May Day protests under way -- locally, nationally, globally
The Statesmen(Austin TX) Clashes flare at some May Day protests
The TimesStandard-Oakland: Hundreds rally at Fruitvale BART station
Daily Democrat-Hundreds gather in Oakland and San Francisco for May Day protests
CNBC-Occupy takes May Day protests to streets
SALON-What to expect on May Day
CNN-San Francisco Bay ferry service suspended in anticipation of protest
San Francisco Chronicle-Occupy SF, Oakland plan May Day rallies, pickets
Two Marin ferries cancelled due to worker strikes
Patch.com-Ferry Workers Call Strike A Success
Occupy Oakland and Workers Back Off Plan to Shut Down the Golden Gate Bridge for May Day
Phil Matier on CBS-Contract Battle Sets Up Possible ‘Occupy’ Shutdown Attempt On Golden Gate Bridge
Oakland Tribune-May Day strike to shut down Tuesday morning ferry service
Huffington Post-Occupy The Golden Gate Bridge: Activist Group Plans Shutdown Of Iconic Span
Day of action on May 1 could lead to Occupy takeover of Golden Gate Bridge
Occupy factions, divided in tactics, to start anew
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