DOWNTOWN OAKLAND FOR THE PEOPLE!

DOWNTOWN OAKLAND FOR THE PEOPLE!
Meet at 4:30 pm, march at 5
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What’s the future of downtown Oakland? Luxury condos and Uber offices for the rich, and poverty wages and displacement for workers and people of color? Or good jobs, affordable housing, schools, and arts spaces for ALL of Oakland’s communities?

This fall, the Oakland Planning Department is considering approving a new Hampton Inn in downtown Oakland – behind closed doors with no public process. This is a terrible deal for workers.

The Hampton Inn developer already operates 2 local hotels where workers have reported low pay, no health benefits, horrible working conditions, shorting of workers’
pay, abuse and humiliation from managers, and violations of the new Oakland minimum wage.

Building a poverty-wage hotel in downtown Oakland would not only be unfair to the future workers at the Hampton Inn, but would hurt union hotel workers around the East Bay who are struggling to maintain the wages and health benefits that they have fought for over the years.

And this project would exacerbate the East Bay’s crises of inequality and displacement – no one can afford to live in Oakland today on wages this low.

People power stopped the backroom deal to develop market-rate housing at the East 12th Street parcel. People power can stop this project too.

Come tell the City of Oakland: we don’t need secret deals to create more poverty-wage jobs. Downtown Oakland needs good jobs, affordable housing & real democracy!

Organized by UNITE HERE Local 2850, 1440 Broadway, Suite 208, Oakland, CA 94612 | www.unitehere2850.org