[slwc] VICTORY at Stanford Hospital

December 18, 2001 



            Today we announce significant victories
for labor justice at Stanford Hospital. The victories we have won were only possible with your support. Your letters, phone calls, faxes and support ‘with your feet’ made our community’s demands clear - unjust labor practices at Stanford Hospital and Stanford University are unacceptable, no matter what the terms are. Last Friday, December 14th, Lou Saksen, the vice president of general services, and the director of Housekeeping at the Stanford Hospital informed a delegation of students and Vice Provost of Student Affairs Gene Awakuni of the hospital’s new commitments to change its unjust labor practices.

· An amendment to the recently signed subcontracting of 10-positions will increase the $8.50/hr + no benefits package to $10.10/hr + benefits. (The $8.50/hr
package was lower than the $9-12/hr + benefits sliding scale originally promised by the hospital 3 weeks ago Tuesday) 
*  The hospital commits to establishing "purchasing guidelines" or business code of conduct. "Purchasing guidelines" will be established to determine the basic working conditions future and current subcontractors must meet in order to work with the Stanford Hospital.
Preliminary meetings for the committee deciding on
this code of conduct will begin over break but no
lasting decisions will be made until Winter quarter
resumes. 
* Community input will be included in the process of
determining this code of conduct. Worker, student and faculty input will be involved in the process, beginning early January. 
* There will be a temporary moratorium on all
additional subcontracting until a code of conduct is
formed and enacted.
*Students also have set up a meeting with Stanford president John Hennessy to discuss Stanford's own adoption of a code of conduct for labor practices.

But the struggle is not over yet: 
*The hospital still refused to heed the demands of
the community and terminate the contract for the 10
outsourced janitorial positions until the code of
conduct is created. 
* The subcontractor hired by the Hospital is a
NON-UNION subcontractor, meaning that workers are not
protected by the union. 
* Although the 10 subcontracted janitors will be
receiving $10.10 per hour with benefits, this is STILL
less that what directly-hired janitorial workers make ($12-$16 per hour) and this is STILL not a living wage in the Bay Area.

 
Again, thank you workers, students, faculty, staff
and alumni. Honestly, we would not have these victories
to celebrate if not for your commitment and support.
For your written and voiced support, for your support at the noon rally three Thursdays ago and for your support at 7AM the following Thursday, we thank you. But the fight is not over yet. Sadly, it also took arrests and
assault to direct the Hospital’s attention to its unjust labor practices.
Now that we have its attention, we must hold the hospital accountable to its new commitments and we must see action follow these commitments. $10.10/hr
amendments are not enough. We must also continue the struggle by demanding that Stanford University take similar steps to ensure that all workers are
treated with respect. So please keep showing your support for Stanford workers and keep making your voices be heard!

                    Aint no power like the power of
the people cuz the power of the people don’t stop!

In solidarity,
The Coalition against subcontracting injustices at Stanford

From: "A Calver"

To: slwc@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [slwc] Victory at Trinity College

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 11:21:55 -0500

From: "Jeremy Haicken"

Reply-To: "Jeremy Haicken"

Subject: Trinity Victory!

Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:09:01 -0500

TOTAL VICTORY FOR TRINITY CAFETERIA WORKERS! CHARTWELLS WILL CUT NO HOURS!

Back in early October, Chartwells gave Trinity College's cafeteria workers

two weeks notice that they would cut 250 hours per week from the

workers'schedules, resulting in the loss of 5 benefit-level jobs, 2 layoffs

and almost $100,000 in lost wages per year.

But a massive and militant coalition of workers, students, faculty and

Hartford community leaders mounted a solidarity campaign - leafletting,

rallies, marches, stickers, petitions, picket lines and solidarity actions

by other unionized Chartwells workers. We knocked Chartwells off course and

the cuts were delayed, first for a few weeks, then until next semester.

However, with more disruptive student and worker actions on the horizon,

Chartwells decided it couldn't take any more. They've now promised there

will be NO CUTS for the remainder of the school year. All that's left now

is to work out details on moving some hours from one dining facility to

another.

Thanks to everyone who supported the Trinity workers in this campaign -

especially to V.O.I.D. and the other student activists at Trinity. I hope

this is only the beginning stages of a growing student-labor movement in

Connecticut. Let's take this fight to every campus and workplace in the

state! See you at the next student-labor meeting in February.

In solidarity,

Jeremy Haicken

Local 217 HERE

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