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Join Labor On The Job when we focus on the growing attack on union and democratic rights. Twenty four IAM Local 1173 and IBT 315 union members were discharged by Future Ford in Corcord, California for being union supporters. Many had 15 to 20 years with the employer. Joining Labor On the job will be Rick Rodgers, a business representative of IAM Local 1173, discharged IAM 1173 shop stewards Phil Wilson and George West and IAM Local 1173 Trustee Bill Perreria. Their union web site is http://www.LL1173.goiam.org

The second segment of Labor On the Job will examine the growing corruption, nepotism and favoritism crisis in the San Francisco Department of Public Works and the recent illegal firing of over 80 LIUNA 261 SF city laborers. We will look at why they were fired and why the Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom has refused to meet with them. Deputy Director of Public Works Mohammad Nuru who fired them has previously been charged with forcing workers who worked for a city funded non-profit to do illegal political campaigning for Mayor Newsom while they were on the payroll of the non-profit.
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Despite a report that confirmed this malfeasance, Mayor Newsom refused to remove Naru from his position and according to the workers he continues to violate the civil service rules and has engaged discrimination and nepotism.
Joining Labor On the Job will be LIUNA 261 members Anthony Travis Jr., Bryan Hill, Larry Montoya, Beatriz Lopez and Raul Sanchez.


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http://www.sfexaminer.com/articles/2005/02/23/news/20050223_ne05_dpw.txt


Former DPW workers level charge of favoritism


By Jo Stanley
Staff Writer
Published: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 10:51 AM PST


A group of former employees with the Department of Public Works gathered
outside the agency's door Tuesday to protest what they charge was an
unfair round of hiring that brought others in for permanent jobs and
left them out in the cold.

While passing truckers honked their support, the noontime protesters on
Cesar Chavez Street said they tried for months to either win back their
jobs or get details on a January 2003 civil service exam as well as how
it was scored and the subsequent hiring selections made. "The City
continues to drag its feet," commented labor attorney Genevie Gallegos.

Several of the 22 temporary, or provisional, workers said they were
passed over in favor of others who were less experienced.


"The playing field was not fair," said Larry Montoya, who noted he
worked as a general laborer for three years and achieved the
seventh-highest score in the civil service exam but was laid off in
November.

The two dozen or so protesters have also drawn support from organized
labor unions, including the Laborers' International Union of North
America, Local 261, the Service Employees International Union and the
Stationary Engineers, Local 39.

Montoya and others charged that Mohammed Nuru, a former deputy DPW
director, had exerted influence over who was and was not chosen for the
coveted permanent positions.



But DPW spokeswoman Chris Falvey said that the 55 people selected from a
civil service eligibility list were chosen fairly and that Nuru had
"nothing to do with it."

Nuru, who had been linked to a scandal involving workers at the
now-defunct San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners who were allegedly
told to campaign for then-mayoral candidate Gavin Newsom while being
paid by The City, referred a telephone inquiry to Falvey.

Email: jstanley [at] examiner.com