Map of Locked-Out Hotels

maybe it's not such a good idea to broadcast ways to get jobs as scabs. we don't want to do the bosses work for them.

the map is great.

I posted these links in hopes that more people would call and complain that they're running scab ads than actually apply for a job. Or if you do apply, well there's a number of things you could do from the inside. Also, call the job hotlines and tell them what you think about scabs. Note I only linked to the scab ads which mention the lockout.

thanks for the response; overall, it's probably good to get the numbers out...

and a reminder: tonight, sunday 17, supporters of the hotel strikers are meeting at union square at 7PM to do the flying picket. come on out, even if it continues to be dreary outside!

I doubt that sfgate would adopt such a pro-worker policy, but I asked CL to consider not accepting scab job listings.

It's a free country. Are you willing to give up your freedom to quit a job anytime you want for better pay or better benefits at another job? Freedom to look at 2 employers, see who offers more, and chose that one completely out of self-interest with complete disregard for the employer's need of an employee?

You enjoy these freedoms already, yet you advocate denying them to "the bosses".

Why is it whenever anyone paints the rest of you with a single brush, there are immediate objections such as "We are not all alike!" and "You don't know me as an individual so how can you judge me?"

Yet you'll lump several layers of management across ALL industries as just "the bosses", dehumanizing these people and THEIR issues. And no one bats an eyelash at it. Ever.

I'm not surprised that negotiations have failed, with all your self-serving double standards. I doubt any of you even knows what it means to negotiate "in good faith".

They all suck on our necks.

Please post your opinions on Craigslist's feedback forum in regards to Craiglist's posting of scab jobs for the hotel owners in SF.

http://forums.craigslist.org/login/?forumID=8

Join the hotel workers on the picket lines when you can and offer the locked out hotel workers all the support you can.

http://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=20247603
http://forums.craigslist.org/?ID=20201909

<<...you'll lump several layers of management across ALL industries as just "the bosses" dehumanizing these people and THEIR issues...>>

"The bosses" were invoked, in this instance, to refer to the management of fabulously wealthy capitalist enterprises which ostensibly compete within the SAME industry, yet somehow didn't allow this "fact" to act as an obstacle to their COLLUDING to lock-out approximately 4,000 hotel workers as a means of getting an upper-hand in contract negotiations, principally over health care. For all the pretense of competititon between individual businesses under capitalism, employers know that the real conflict isn't between each other but between they and "their" workers. This was illustrated graphically during the grocers strike in southern California earlier this year when the companies agreed to pool costs to neutralize the impact of boycotts called against the stores. The power of capital ultimately rests, not on "rugged individualism" or other shop-worn cliches--which the above poster has apparently swallowed whole--but on their raw and very "unindividualistic" power as a CLASS, backed-up by the armed might of the state.

Capiche?
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On a related matter: Last night's flying picket went off as planned and was lively and clearly appreciated by the rank-and-file strikers on the picket-lines. However, the numbers weren't as good as hoped-for (about 20 people instead of the 35-50 the previous week)--probably because it rained most of the afternoon leading up to the event. In any case, the tentative plan is to have a much bigger "community solidarity flying picket" on Sunday, October 24 at Union Square probably at 7PM. Stay tuned!

Sounds good. Please post an update when it's been finalized.