Stand Beside Woodfin Workers

Woodfin Workers FIRED!!!

We are deeply distraught to announce that the Woodfin Suites Hotel in
Emeryville fired 11 workers in apparent retaliation for blowing the
whistle on the hotel's violation of Emeryville's living wage
ordinance. These firings are a malicious attack not just on
hard-working housekeepers and their families, but also on our
community's values of immigrant workers' rights, democracy, and
justice.

We are writing to ask you to stand beside Woodfin workers as they
fight for reinstatement. The firings come after 7 months of intense,
sustained protests by workers, residents, faith leaders, and immigrant
rights advocates. But as the chant goes, "The Woodfin ain't seen
nothin' yet." We will not abandon the workers and will demand
accountability from the Woodfin and the city council. We ask you to
join us in sending a strong and immediate message to the hotel that
the terminations are unethical, and to the city that they must hold
the Woodfin responsible and defend the workers' jobs.

Here's what you can do to help:

1. Attend two upcoming emergency response actions:

* Tomorrow, Saturday, April 28th at 9 AM. Join us for a rally
during our regular 7-11 AM pickets to send an immediate message to the
Woodfin that the community is behind the workers.
* Thursday, May 3rd at 5 PM. Join us for a critically important
rally to demand reinstatement of all fired Woodfin workers.

Both actions will take place at the Woodfin Suites Hotel located at
5800 Shellmound in Emeryville.

2. Email the Emeryville City Council. The firings violate the City of
Emeryville's urgency ordinance, which prohibits hotels from firing
workers until the city has had 90 days to investigate worker
complaints. To send a message to the Emeryville City Council to tell
them to immediately deny the Woodfin an operating permit until the
hotel reinstates workers and pays them back wages go to
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/EBASE/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11219.

3. Donate to the Living Wage Hardship fund. To make a donation to
support fired workers and their families go to:
http://www.workingeastbay.org/article.php?id=204.