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They are currently employed directly by the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the plan, many workers at the hospital and satellite clinics across the East Bay would be transferred to public sector unions that represent UC employees and work under new contracts that would require them to pay an average of $10,000 a year more toward health and retirement benefits, the union said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been here for 24 years. And for whatever reasons, UCSF just decided they wanted to come in and bully us into becoming their employees, which makes no sense,” said Cameron Lewis, a shop steward who works in guest services at the hospital. “Now you’re telling me I have to go over there and start all over again? I’m 60 years old. I don’t have another 20 years in me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When UCSF became affiliated with the hospital in 2014, the company assured workers the change was in name only and wouldn’t impact their existing labor agreements, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/032_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hospital employees and supporters gather for a rally outside the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Basically, they’re busting up our union, because our union has a better contract than what’s presently at UCSF,” Lewis said as he stood in the shadow of a giant inflatable rat named Scabby on the corner of Martin Luther King Jr Way and 52nd Street. “We fought for a lot of things with our union over the years that their unions are trying to get. So why would we want to go backwards?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement last week, UCSF called claims that employees were “being fired and rehired … simply false.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every employee is being mapped to a position in the appropriate unit at UCSF,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, 98% of union members voted against integrating with UCSF, according to NUHW, which represents some 1,300 workers at the hospital. The union, which argues that the takeover plan is in violation of its contracts with the hospital, filed a motion to force arbitration as part of a last-ditch effort to block the move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A court hearing on the motion is scheduled for Thursday, just over a week before the transition is set to take effect, on July 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NUHW president Sal Rosselli said that if the motion is denied, his union would appeal “and continue this struggle.”[aside postID=news_12044760 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-04-BL-KQED.jpg']“It’s horrible that these folks have to be on strike,” he said, calling UCSF’s plan “a Trumpian move” to force workers out of their union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s Hospital is a community organization,” Rosselli said. “It’s a rare institution where members’ grandchildren and children work at the hospital. They take care of their kids at the hospital. And this forced integration by UCSF is putting all of that at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UCSF said the company couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but argued that it had made “multiple good faith offers” to meet with the union to discuss transition concerns and “bargain its effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Union has refused to conduct any effective bargaining,” Jess Berthold, the UCSF spokesperson, said in an email. “We are disappointed in NUHW’s decision to strike and disrupt the care we provide to our young patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and its clinics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berthold said the hospital has taken steps to ensure that patients still have access to important critical care services during the strike, including the emergency department and operating rooms. And she said its Walnut Creek facility, which temporarily shut down last week, has partially reopened to in-person visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike follows a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/largest-healthcare-strike-in-u-s-history-underway-as-workers-protest-wages-and-staffing#:~:text=The%20largest%20health%20care%20strike,five%20states%20and%20Washington%2C%20D.C.\">major health care labor battles\u003c/a> across the country in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038280/on-may-day-bay-area-workers-protest-trump-labor-battles\">several actions this year alone\u003c/a> at UC medical centers throughout California, where workers have staged short strikes over alleged unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees and supporters gather for a rally outside the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. Health care workers are set to strike again on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Maggie Lewis (no relation to Cameron), who has been a chef at the hospital for 25 years, the fight is about protecting the rights of the health care workers who have long served this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a shame what UCSF is trying to come over and do. It’s also illegal,” said Lewis, who was born and raised in Oakland and was treated at this hospital as a child. “You know, most of these people here, they’ve never had to pay for insurance. Now, you want them to pay for insurance. They can’t afford that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said she plans to retire at the end of this year, so the UCSF proposal would have little direct impact on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I still have to fight with my colleagues that I’m going to leave here,” she said. “I’m ex-military. ‘Leave no man behind,’ that’s always been my quote. So that’s my whole thing. I’m gonna fight to the end with my colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: UCSF did not acquire Children’s Hospital Oakland in 2014, as this article previously stated. Rather, the two institutions became affiliated that year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jasminegarnett\">\u003cem>Jasmine Garnett\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s horrible that these folks have to be on strike,” he said, calling UCSF’s plan “a Trumpian move” to force workers out of their union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Children’s Hospital is a community organization,” Rosselli said. “It’s a rare institution where members’ grandchildren and children work at the hospital. They take care of their kids at the hospital. And this forced integration by UCSF is putting all of that at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for UCSF said the company couldn’t comment on pending litigation, but argued that it had made “multiple good faith offers” to meet with the union to discuss transition concerns and “bargain its effects.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Union has refused to conduct any effective bargaining,” Jess Berthold, the UCSF spokesperson, said in an email. “We are disappointed in NUHW’s decision to strike and disrupt the care we provide to our young patients at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and its clinics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berthold said the hospital has taken steps to ensure that patients still have access to important critical care services during the strike, including the emergency department and operating rooms. And she said its Walnut Creek facility, which temporarily shut down last week, has partially reopened to in-person visits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The strike follows a series of \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/largest-healthcare-strike-in-u-s-history-underway-as-workers-protest-wages-and-staffing#:~:text=The%20largest%20health%20care%20strike,five%20states%20and%20Washington%2C%20D.C.\">major health care labor battles\u003c/a> across the country in recent years, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038280/on-may-day-bay-area-workers-protest-trump-labor-battles\">several actions this year alone\u003c/a> at UC medical centers throughout California, where workers have staged short strikes over alleged unfair labor practices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/010_KQED_UCSFBenioffChildrensHospStrike_04192023_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employees and supporters gather for a rally outside the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland on April 19, 2023. Health care workers are set to strike again on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For Maggie Lewis (no relation to Cameron), who has been a chef at the hospital for 25 years, the fight is about protecting the rights of the health care workers who have long served this community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a shame what UCSF is trying to come over and do. It’s also illegal,” said Lewis, who was born and raised in Oakland and was treated at this hospital as a child. “You know, most of these people here, they’ve never had to pay for insurance. Now, you want them to pay for insurance. They can’t afford that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewis said she plans to retire at the end of this year, so the UCSF proposal would have little direct impact on her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But I still have to fight with my colleagues that I’m going to leave here,” she said. “I’m ex-military. ‘Leave no man behind,’ that’s always been my quote. So that’s my whole thing. I’m gonna fight to the end with my colleagues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Correction: UCSF did not acquire Children’s Hospital Oakland in 2014, as this article previously stated. Rather, the two institutions became affiliated that year.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jasminegarnett\">\u003cem>Jasmine Garnett\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After months of budget wrangling, buyouts and the threat of state takeover, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-unified-school-district\">San Francisco’s school district\u003c/a> will deliver a balanced budget, according to Superintendent Maria Su.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the San Francisco Unified School District nears the end of its fiscal year, Su on Tuesday unveiled the financial plan she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">brought into the embattled system to deliver\u003c/a> last fall. The budget eliminates a $113 million deficit, focuses more spending on school campuses, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040756/sfusd-reverses-over-150-layoffs-but-hiring-teachers-may-still-be-an-uphill-battle\">avoids teacher layoffs\u003c/a> and cuts down nearly half of the district’s deficit spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have made a lot of really, really tough decisions and all of those necessary cuts that need to be made to support our budget and, of course, to maintain local control,” Su told reporters last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s budget focus will be three-pronged, she said: improving student learning, creating strong and supported schools, and prioritizing effective governance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have worked really hard to strategically invest in what we know our students need the most,” she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest cuts will be in staffing. Nearly 400 positions are being eliminated across school sites and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036914/more-sfusd-layoffs-to-target-central-office-bringing-budget-gap-closer-to-zero\">the central office\u003c/a>, and 345 more positions are being vacated by retiring staffers who took a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017631/embattled-sf-school-district-offer-hundreds-buyouts-potential-layoffs\">voluntary buyout\u003c/a> earlier this year. Of those, 315 positions will be filled by mostly lower-paid — and less experienced — workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036911\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036911\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFUSD-06-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Unified School District administrative offices in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About 180 of the eliminated positions involve employees who work on school campuses, according to district documents, though their exact roles have not been made clear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Lara, vice president of the SFUSD teachers union, said most were “special assignment” roles that many experienced teachers had moved into to focus on English language learning, reforms to teaching and curriculum, or reducing class sizes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district said every school site will have a principal, clerk and classroom teachers for each grade level, but those specialized staffers, along with assistant principals and higher-than-mandated numbers of paraeducators, counselors and social workers, are not guaranteed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really facing a major disruption to how schools serve students,” without those jobs, but the effects won’t be fully known until next year, Lara said.[aside postID=news_12040756 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250204-WeCantWait-04-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Su said last week that the district was focused on making sure schools still have access to enrichment courses in the arts and physical education, along with language immersion opportunities and improved food options — a hot topic with students, she told reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the central office, the gaps could be more glaring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 190 roles have been eliminated there, which will extend wait times for technology needs and force the office to prioritize certain communications and digital resources that are aligned with curriculum, according to the district. With the reductions, spending on the central office will be about 16% of the district’s total budget, down from 25% five years ago and lower than similar districts in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That shows the commitment to our students, our schools, our families, and it’s much appreciated,” said board member Matt Alexander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union leaders have long said the district spends too much of its resources on the administrative office staff, and they urged for cuts to be kept away from school sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lara said it was a positive step, but he added that the union is continuing to monitor if, and how, central office positions are reintroduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the next year, Su said further reductions will be needed, especially after the district reported that it will receive about $8 million less revenue in state and attendance-related funding than it budgeted for in a fiscal update last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district is also continuing to try to curb deficit spending, which is down from more than $90 million to $47 million this year. Projections for future years show the district continuing to overspend by about the same amount, meaning it will need to take additional steps to reach longer-term stability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su said that could mean discussing whether school closures are needed, investing in changes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031802/san-francisco-public-schools-see-surge-applications-thanks-transitional-kindergarten-demand\">transitional kindergarten\u003c/a> and special education services, and making additional reductions in some programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A clearer picture of next year’s budget outlook will come into focus next week, when the district plans to present a fiscal stabilization plan for the 2026–2027 school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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However, \u003ca href=\"https://url.us.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Z50HCkRozNIrEE60h2f3hGvowN?domain=home.nuhw.org\">UCSF officials\u003c/a> informed hospital workers that several satellite clinics, including the Walnut Creek location, would be closed in response to the strike, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044907\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland strike on June 18, 2025, over UCSF’s efforts to dissolve their union contracts amid a broader integration plan. Union members say the changes threaten job security and could lead to significant cuts in wages and benefits. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the university said the hospital has taken steps to ensure that patients will still have access to critical care services, such as the emergency department and operating rooms. Non-urgent procedures and appointments have been rescheduled or converted to telehealth appointments, and updates will be provided to patients as the strike continues, the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody wants to go on strike, Villanueva said, calling it a necessary sacrifice to make sure that workers are treated fairly and patients are given the best care possible long into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of us have had to grapple with these different changes [UCSF is] proposing, but we never let our patient care slip,” she told KQED. “It’s taken a toll on morale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of now, workers at Children’s Hospital Oakland and satellite clinics across the East Bay are employed directly by the hospital, a private nonprofit that functions separately from the university. Under the integration plan, which is set to take effect early next month, workers would be transitioned out of their current roles and into university employment.[aside postID=news_12044201 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/VaccinationsStory.jpg']The plan would also require eligible workers to join UC unions, while those who are not eligible would be recategorized as at-will employees with no representation, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators striking at the Oakland hospital were joined by workers with the California Nurses Association, which represents registered nurses, and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39, which represents workers who maintain hospital infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both unions submitted strike notices in solidarity with NUHW, said Sal Rosselli, the union’s president emeritus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although professional workers in NUHW, including mental health therapists, speech therapists and occupational therapists, are unable to authorize a strike because of their ongoing contracts, many of them have agreed to respect the picket line, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am here individually supporting the strike and refusing to cross the picket line, and I’m doing it for my patients,” said Dr. Heather Stenger, a pediatric audiologist at the hospital. “What UCSF has is not what Oakland needs. We have very different populations, very different patient care and very different communities. To take from the city and bring it to Oakland is not going to be successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland strike on June 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stenger said the clinic she operates is already struggling to keep up with demand. Thousands of children are on a waitlist to see her, and a weaker contract under UCSF would make it even harder to provide patients with the specialized services they need, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s plans would hurt both workers and the East Bay community, Rosselli told KQED. Some employees may be forced to relocate to the university’s San Francisco campus, while other workers could choose to leave or retire rather than face a difficult transition, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children’s hospital would be left with fewer caregivers and support staff, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we’ve been fighting against for the last 14 years,” Rosselli said. “We’ve been trying to maintain services in the East Bay, Oakland and Contra Costa County that are accessible to the families and kids that live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a UCSF spokesperson, every employee currently represented by external unions will be moved to a position “in the appropriate unit at UCSF” without disruption. Any changes to take-home pay will be a result of workers contributing to the university’s health insurance, pension and benefits plans — same as other UCSF employees, the university said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This transition supports long-term growth, aligns our teams under a single system, and strengthens our ability to serve children and families with high-quality, coordinated care,” the statement reads. “We are taking steps to protect continuity of care throughout the strike and remain focused on what matters most: the children and families who rely on us every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, 98% of union members voted against integrating with UCSF. The union also filed a formal grievance in response to the plan, which Children’s Hospital Oakland has refused to process, the union alleges. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The plan would also require eligible workers to join UC unions, while those who are not eligible would be recategorized as at-will employees with no representation, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators striking at the Oakland hospital were joined by workers with the California Nurses Association, which represents registered nurses, and the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39, which represents workers who maintain hospital infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both unions submitted strike notices in solidarity with NUHW, said Sal Rosselli, the union’s president emeritus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although professional workers in NUHW, including mental health therapists, speech therapists and occupational therapists, are unable to authorize a strike because of their ongoing contracts, many of them have agreed to respect the picket line, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am here individually supporting the strike and refusing to cross the picket line, and I’m doing it for my patients,” said Dr. Heather Stenger, a pediatric audiologist at the hospital. “What UCSF has is not what Oakland needs. We have very different populations, very different patient care and very different communities. To take from the city and bring it to Oakland is not going to be successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044908\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-CHILDRENSHOSPITALOAKLANDSTRIKE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland strike on June 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stenger said the clinic she operates is already struggling to keep up with demand. Thousands of children are on a waitlist to see her, and a weaker contract under UCSF would make it even harder to provide patients with the specialized services they need, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university’s plans would hurt both workers and the East Bay community, Rosselli told KQED. Some employees may be forced to relocate to the university’s San Francisco campus, while other workers could choose to leave or retire rather than face a difficult transition, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children’s hospital would be left with fewer caregivers and support staff, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s what we’ve been fighting against for the last 14 years,” Rosselli said. “We’ve been trying to maintain services in the East Bay, Oakland and Contra Costa County that are accessible to the families and kids that live here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a UCSF spokesperson, every employee currently represented by external unions will be moved to a position “in the appropriate unit at UCSF” without disruption. Any changes to take-home pay will be a result of workers contributing to the university’s health insurance, pension and benefits plans — same as other UCSF employees, the university said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This transition supports long-term growth, aligns our teams under a single system, and strengthens our ability to serve children and families with high-quality, coordinated care,” the statement reads. “We are taking steps to protect continuity of care throughout the strike and remain focused on what matters most: the children and families who rely on us every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, 98% of union members voted against integrating with UCSF. The union also filed a formal grievance in response to the plan, which Children’s Hospital Oakland has refused to process, the union alleges. The union has filed a lawsuit to compel arbitration, and a hearing is scheduled for June 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll continue to expose UCSF for its absolute disregard for patients and for folks that are caring for patients,” Rosselli said. “We’ll pursue federal lawsuits every step of the way to force UCSF to continue providing care in the East Bay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Mallory Myers’ wife was offered a job at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin\u003c/a> in the summer of 2023, the option to live in on-site housing was an attractive incentive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area, a community of around 20 to 25 manufactured homes tucked just behind the prison’s rear barbed wire fence, offered a rare and affordable exception to one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple purchased a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home from another employee for $136,700, packed up their belongings and moved from the East Coast in September of that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They quickly grew to love their neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We had patrol vehicles that were 24–7,” Myers said, looking back. “They have to do perimeter checks constantly,” Myers said. “So it was very safe, very quiet. The neighbors are wonderful people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the following spring, FCI Dublin abruptly shut down after years of turmoil that saw the prison’s former warden and seven other officers charged with crimes related to the sexual abuse of inmates. All but one were convicted. In December, the Bureau of Prisons announced the facility would not reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Myers and her wife were one of 21 households to receive an official eviction notice ordering them to remove their homes from the government’s land by September, according to a union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042803 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, pets her dog at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because manufactured homes are expensive to move, and many mobile home parks won’t accept them, the couple is faced with accepting a fraction of the home’s initial price from someone who will haul it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent hot summer day, they and other neighbors gathered on the porch of a home within sight of the now deserted prison yard and shared their stories. They had jumped at what appeared to be a wise investment, and were now scrambling to find a way to minimize the financial damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when we sell this house, we are still going to take a huge hit. We’re going to be paying on this house for many years,” said Tammy LaMirand, who worked in food service at the prison and said she got a loan from a family member to buy her home next door to Myers. “There’s a few of us in that situation. But the people that got [loans] from the banks, they’re going to have to go through foreclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wife of a prison chaplain said their family purchased a home for $95,000 within two months of Dublin closing.[aside postID=news_12041857 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']The chaplain has since transferred to another prison while his family continues living at FCI Dublin and while they figure out what to do next, said the woman, who asked to be identified as “Shef,” an abbreviation of her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial stress, it’s already expensive here,” she said. “Now you have to pay two mortgages. It’s a lot to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One employee, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told KQED he purchased his home six months before Dublin shut down. He recently transferred to work at another prison in a county that won’t allow manufactured homes more than 20 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now owes more than $175,000 and is going through the foreclosure process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency basically put us in the position of inviting us to acquire a decades-old manufactured home that was dilapidated,” the employee said. “But then announcing to us six months later, oh by the way we’re closing, and we’ve been planning on closing for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had a significant emotional, mental, physical toll on me and my family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, local union representatives contacted attorneys with the American Federation of Government Employees seeking support in filing a federal lawsuit in an attempt to prevent the evictions and around 80 to 90 employee layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Canales, president of the Council of Prison Locals C-33, local 3584, said some staff are waiting to hear what union attorneys say before moving their homes, in the hopes they will be able to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people, as of now, are not leaving,” Canales told KQED in a text message. “So far, no mobile home has been moved from [the] lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, declined to comment on any potential legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the staff housing at FCI Dublin provided a mutually beneficial exchange between the Bureau of Prisons and the prison’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. The prison was a low-security women’s facility with a history of staff sexual abuse scandals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Incoming hires purchased mobile homes from departing staff and rented the land beneath them from the government with the expectation that they could one day sell the homes to another employee once they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system afforded FCI Dublin’s teachers, maintenance workers, correctional officers and other staff an affordable housing investment. And with many workers commuting to Dublin because of the high cost of living in the area, it gave the perpetually short-staffed prison a reliable resource: nearby employees who could respond quickly should the need arise during off hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the homes, and the employees’ investment in them, only held their worth while the prison operated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969931-april-2024-brief/\">April 2024 brief filed in federal court\u003c/a> as part of a class action lawsuit, attorneys for the Bureau of Prisons disclosed the agency had “been considering the closure of FCI Dublin for many years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees say that information was never shared with prospective hires who were offered a chance to purchase on-site mobile homes. As FCI Dublin shuts down permanently, some say the agency took advantage of them by allowing them to purchase homes attached to a facility they knew could close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The spouse of a correctional officer washes dishes at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about the employees’ claims, a BOP spokesperson said the office does not comment on matters subject to legal proceedings or that are pending before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They could have told them two years ago, hey, we were going to be shutting down staff housing and gave all these people ample time to do what they needed to do for their families and make these adjustments,” said Susan Canales, the union local’s secretary treasurer and Edward Canales’ wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had she known the prison would close, Myers said, she and her wife would have never moved to Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel scammed and victimized for having been allowed to move here under the guise of this incentive,” Myers said. “You know, there were so many times that they could have just provided us even a slip of paper saying that, hey, there’s a chance this place is going to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re collateral damage’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area at FCI Dublin is made up of two neat rows of manufactured homes and a basketball court and a picnic table area surrounded by dried grass. At the end of one road, a section of the fence that fell down months ago serves as a reminder of the maintenance that’s been abandoned since the inmates left last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2024, amidst a federal class action lawsuit filed on behalf of women at the prison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">a federal judge appointed a special master\u003c/a> to oversee Dublin and gave her full access to the facility and its records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days later, the Bureau abruptly announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983151/infamous-womens-prison-plagued-by-sex-abuse-closes\">shutting the prison down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bureau’s then-Director Collette S. Peters said the agency had provided a tremendous amount of resources to address FCI Dublin’s culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure and employee misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility. This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peters said the agency was committed to mitigating the impact on inmates, employees and external stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No employees will lose their jobs as a result of this action,” Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, there were around 185–200 employees at the facility, the union said. Some left for other institutions. Those who stayed continued doing different tasks with the expectation — and hope — that it would be used for another purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, visible from a mobile home community in Dublin on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in December, the agency announced the closure was permanent, citing a very difficult budget situation and significant maintenance and repair backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six other facilities across the country would also deactivate, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of this decision, the position you occupy has been identified to be abolished and you will be considered a potentially displaced employee,” Acting Warden Charles Hubbard wrote in a Dec. 5 letter to Dublin’s remaining 151 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some staff said they believe another factor was at play in the closure: the agency’s desire to eliminate the stigma of years of officer misconduct and bad press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a lot of cases in other institutions, the same type of cases, and they’re still open. But here, the warden was incarcerated, and they want everything to go away,” said one employee who worked as an educator at the prison and who asked not to be named. “They don’t want to hold themselves accountable for what happened here. And I don’t think that’s fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentina Stone, 14, gets ready for a school dance with the help of her mother, a correctional officer, at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing on a neighbor’s porch, she said she didn’t know her plans for the future, but worried she might have to move right before her 14-year-old daughter starts high school in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m her sole provider,” she said. “My goal was to sell my mobile home and get that money and put it down for a down payment for a house. Now I can’t sell it. I don’t have a down payment. It’s her and I up here in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, she helped her daughter get ready for a middle school dance, knowing that it could be one of her last as a student of Dublin schools, after having grown up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow policy. We pay our taxes. Yet I’m losing my house, my career, my community. She’s losing her high school. How is that fair? It’s not fair. We are hardworking people,” she said. “From the warden down, we were all punished. But what about the warden — up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Hubbard informed the union that employees with mobile homes on the prison’s property would have to remove them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Canales (left), union president for FCI Dublin correctional officers, and Jose Lau, vice president, stand in the prison staff mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no method at this time that would permit me to acquire the mobile homes on behalf of the government,” Hubbard wrote in a follow-up email to Edward Canales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, union officials reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027154/ice-weighs-turning-fci-dublin-into-detention-center-union-leaders-say\">conducted an assessment of the facility\u003c/a>. Rumors circulated that ICE or a private prison company could soon convert FCI Dublin into an immigrant detention facility, raising hope that new employees might be interested in taking over the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a BOP spokesperson refuted those rumors this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FCI Dublin remains under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice and there are no plans to reopen it,” Randilee Giamusso told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, some employees have tried selling their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, stands in the half-renovated bathroom at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zillow ads posted in April show bright photos of two of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6700-Goodfellow-Ave-APT-11-Dublin-CA-94568/153076247_zpid/\">staff’s mobile homes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6700-Goodfellow-Rd-23-Dublin-CA-94568/449414793_zpid/\">asking prices that are fractions\u003c/a> of those of other nearby homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are images of side-by-side bathroom sinks, wood laminate flooring and clean carpet. One of the ads boasts new windows, new siding, granite countertops and plenty of lighting — with the caveat: this home must be moved from its current location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants to come and buy it and move; they want to buy it and stay,” said Shef, the wife of a former FCI Dublin chaplain. “So anybody that comes in and shows interest, if they find out we have to move it, then they lose interest. So we can’t sell it to anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the name, most mobile homes — or manufactured homes as they’re referred to if built after 1975 — are difficult and expensive to relocate. And many mobile home parks won’t accept homes that have been moved from another lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>There’s no available spaces. Almost all parks are full. And if there are available spaces, many parks will only take newer homes,” said Bruce Stanton, an attorney specializing in mobile home law. “That’s a real problem. That’s why very few homes, once they’re sited in a park, are ever moved.”[aside postID=news_12027154 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']“It’s also very expensive to move homes. It could cost $15,000 to $20,000 to disassemble a home, truck it someplace else and reset it,” Stanton said. “Mobile homes are not really mobile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, the employees started boarding buses daily to work at USP Atwater, a high-security federal prison for men just outside the Central Valley town of Merced. They would ride the bus for nearly two hours, work for three and then come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency offered employees 15-minute meetings with human resources staff to help identify other jobs they might be interested in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The remaining 80 to 90 employees at Dublin received Reduction in Force notices on or around June 4, a union representative said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While most of our staff have accepted positions at other BOP institutions, retired, or resigned, approximately 30 staff have yet to act and will be impacted,” a BOP spokesperson said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees in the staff housing area received notices that same day, saying their housing was being terminated and that they must have their houses emptied of their personal property and vacated on or before Sept. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As they consider their options, some have reached out to attorneys seeking legal advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The majority of people, I’d say 70%, are saying that they’re going to wait to see as far as what our attorneys say,” Edward Canales said. “They’re also looking for other attorneys that might take the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, LaMirand, Myers and one other employee told KQED they are considering selling their homes to a Southern California company that has offered to purchase them for a fraction of their value.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to come out not owing anything. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>We had patrol vehicles that were 24–7,” Myers said, looking back. “They have to do perimeter checks constantly,” Myers said. “So it was very safe, very quiet. The neighbors are wonderful people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the following spring, FCI Dublin abruptly shut down after years of turmoil that saw the prison’s former warden and seven other officers charged with crimes related to the sexual abuse of inmates. All but one were convicted. In December, the Bureau of Prisons announced the facility would not reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This month, Myers and her wife were one of 21 households to receive an official eviction notice ordering them to remove their homes from the government’s land by September, according to a union representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12042803 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-08-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, pets her dog at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But because manufactured homes are expensive to move, and many mobile home parks won’t accept them, the couple is faced with accepting a fraction of the home’s initial price from someone who will haul it away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent hot summer day, they and other neighbors gathered on the porch of a home within sight of the now deserted prison yard and shared their stories. They had jumped at what appeared to be a wise investment, and were now scrambling to find a way to minimize the financial damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when we sell this house, we are still going to take a huge hit. We’re going to be paying on this house for many years,” said Tammy LaMirand, who worked in food service at the prison and said she got a loan from a family member to buy her home next door to Myers. “There’s a few of us in that situation. But the people that got [loans] from the banks, they’re going to have to go through foreclosure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wife of a prison chaplain said their family purchased a home for $95,000 within two months of Dublin closing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The chaplain has since transferred to another prison while his family continues living at FCI Dublin and while they figure out what to do next, said the woman, who asked to be identified as “Shef,” an abbreviation of her first name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The financial stress, it’s already expensive here,” she said. “Now you have to pay two mortgages. It’s a lot to bear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One employee, who asked not to be named for fear of retaliation, told KQED he purchased his home six months before Dublin shut down. He recently transferred to work at another prison in a county that won’t allow manufactured homes more than 20 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He now owes more than $175,000 and is going through the foreclosure process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The agency basically put us in the position of inviting us to acquire a decades-old manufactured home that was dilapidated,” the employee said. “But then announcing to us six months later, oh by the way we’re closing, and we’ve been planning on closing for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It had a significant emotional, mental, physical toll on me and my family,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-21-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, local union representatives contacted attorneys with the American Federation of Government Employees seeking support in filing a federal lawsuit in an attempt to prevent the evictions and around 80 to 90 employee layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Edward Canales, president of the Council of Prison Locals C-33, local 3584, said some staff are waiting to hear what union attorneys say before moving their homes, in the hopes they will be able to stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most people, as of now, are not leaving,” Canales told KQED in a text message. “So far, no mobile home has been moved from [the] lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees, AFL-CIO, declined to comment on any potential legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, the staff housing at FCI Dublin provided a mutually beneficial exchange between the Bureau of Prisons and the prison’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042810\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042810\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-55-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. The prison was a low-security women’s facility with a history of staff sexual abuse scandals. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Incoming hires purchased mobile homes from departing staff and rented the land beneath them from the government with the expectation that they could one day sell the homes to another employee once they left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system afforded FCI Dublin’s teachers, maintenance workers, correctional officers and other staff an affordable housing investment. And with many workers commuting to Dublin because of the high cost of living in the area, it gave the perpetually short-staffed prison a reliable resource: nearby employees who could respond quickly should the need arise during off hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the homes, and the employees’ investment in them, only held their worth while the prison operated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969931-april-2024-brief/\">April 2024 brief filed in federal court\u003c/a> as part of a class action lawsuit, attorneys for the Bureau of Prisons disclosed the agency had “been considering the closure of FCI Dublin for many years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Employees say that information was never shared with prospective hires who were offered a chance to purchase on-site mobile homes. As FCI Dublin shuts down permanently, some say the agency took advantage of them by allowing them to purchase homes attached to a facility they knew could close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042807\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-24-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The spouse of a correctional officer washes dishes at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Asked about the employees’ claims, a BOP spokesperson said the office does not comment on matters subject to legal proceedings or that are pending before the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They could have told them two years ago, hey, we were going to be shutting down staff housing and gave all these people ample time to do what they needed to do for their families and make these adjustments,” said Susan Canales, the union local’s secretary treasurer and Edward Canales’ wife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had she known the prison would close, Myers said, she and her wife would have never moved to Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We feel scammed and victimized for having been allowed to move here under the guise of this incentive,” Myers said. “You know, there were so many times that they could have just provided us even a slip of paper saying that, hey, there’s a chance this place is going to close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We’re collateral damage’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The staff housing area at FCI Dublin is made up of two neat rows of manufactured homes and a basketball court and a picnic table area surrounded by dried grass. At the end of one road, a section of the fence that fell down months ago serves as a reminder of the maintenance that’s been abandoned since the inmates left last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2024, amidst a federal class action lawsuit filed on behalf of women at the prison, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982014/judge-chooses-top-pick-for-special-master-to-oversee-womens-prison-following-rampant-abuse\">a federal judge appointed a special master\u003c/a> to oversee Dublin and gave her full access to the facility and its records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ten days later, the Bureau abruptly announced it was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983151/infamous-womens-prison-plagued-by-sex-abuse-closes\">shutting the prison down\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042808\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042808\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-39-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A neighborhood of mobile homes next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement, the Bureau’s then-Director Collette S. Peters said the agency had provided a tremendous amount of resources to address FCI Dublin’s culture, recruitment and retention, aging infrastructure and employee misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite these steps and resources, we have determined that FCI Dublin is not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action is to close the facility. This decision is being made after ongoing evaluation of the effectiveness of those unprecedented steps and additional resources.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peters said the agency was committed to mitigating the impact on inmates, employees and external stakeholders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No employees will lose their jobs as a result of this action,” Peters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, there were around 185–200 employees at the facility, the union said. Some left for other institutions. Those who stayed continued doing different tasks with the expectation — and hope — that it would be used for another purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DublinEmployees-35-BL-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, visible from a mobile home community in Dublin on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But in December, the agency announced the closure was permanent, citing a very difficult budget situation and significant maintenance and repair backlogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six other facilities across the country would also deactivate, according to a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a result of this decision, the position you occupy has been identified to be abolished and you will be considered a potentially displaced employee,” Acting Warden Charles Hubbard wrote in a Dec. 5 letter to Dublin’s remaining 151 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some staff said they believe another factor was at play in the closure: the agency’s desire to eliminate the stigma of years of officer misconduct and bad press.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have a lot of cases in other institutions, the same type of cases, and they’re still open. But here, the warden was incarcerated, and they want everything to go away,” said one employee who worked as an educator at the prison and who asked not to be named. “They don’t want to hold themselves accountable for what happened here. And I don’t think that’s fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valentina Stone, 14, gets ready for a school dance with the help of her mother, a correctional officer, at their home in the mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Standing on a neighbor’s porch, she said she didn’t know her plans for the future, but worried she might have to move right before her 14-year-old daughter starts high school in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m her sole provider,” she said. “My goal was to sell my mobile home and get that money and put it down for a down payment for a house. Now I can’t sell it. I don’t have a down payment. It’s her and I up here in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, she helped her daughter get ready for a middle school dance, knowing that it could be one of her last as a student of Dublin schools, after having grown up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We follow policy. We pay our taxes. Yet I’m losing my house, my career, my community. She’s losing her high school. How is that fair? It’s not fair. We are hardworking people,” she said. “From the warden down, we were all punished. But what about the warden — up?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Hubbard informed the union that employees with mobile homes on the prison’s property would have to remove them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-12-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Canales (left), union president for FCI Dublin correctional officers, and Jose Lau, vice president, stand in the prison staff mobile home community next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There is no method at this time that would permit me to acquire the mobile homes on behalf of the government,” Hubbard wrote in a follow-up email to Edward Canales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after, union officials reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027154/ice-weighs-turning-fci-dublin-into-detention-center-union-leaders-say\">conducted an assessment of the facility\u003c/a>. Rumors circulated that ICE or a private prison company could soon convert FCI Dublin into an immigrant detention facility, raising hope that new employees might be interested in taking over the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a BOP spokesperson refuted those rumors this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“FCI Dublin remains under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice and there are no plans to reopen it,” Randilee Giamusso told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent months, some employees have tried selling their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042802\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042802\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250530-DUBLINEMPLOYEES-04-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mallory Myers, the spouse of a staff member, stands in the half-renovated bathroom at their home next to the now-closed Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, on May 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Zillow ads posted in April show bright photos of two of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6700-Goodfellow-Ave-APT-11-Dublin-CA-94568/153076247_zpid/\">staff’s mobile homes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6700-Goodfellow-Rd-23-Dublin-CA-94568/449414793_zpid/\">asking prices that are fractions\u003c/a> of those of other nearby homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are images of side-by-side bathroom sinks, wood laminate flooring and clean carpet. One of the ads boasts new windows, new siding, granite countertops and plenty of lighting — with the caveat: this home must be moved from its current location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody wants to come and buy it and move; they want to buy it and stay,” said Shef, the wife of a former FCI Dublin chaplain. “So anybody that comes in and shows interest, if they find out we have to move it, then they lose interest. So we can’t sell it to anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the name, most mobile homes — or manufactured homes as they’re referred to if built after 1975 — are difficult and expensive to relocate. And many mobile home parks won’t accept homes that have been moved from another lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>There’s no available spaces. Almost all parks are full. And if there are available spaces, many parks will only take newer homes,” said Bruce Stanton, an attorney specializing in mobile home law. “That’s a real problem. That’s why very few homes, once they’re sited in a park, are ever moved.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Labor leader David Huerta was released from custody on Monday on a $50,000 bond following his arrest last week during a protest against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> raids in Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, the Service Employees International Union California president, made his first appearance in court on Monday, where federal authorities \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25967770-usa-v-huerta-complaint/?q=effectively&mode=document#document/p8\">in a criminal complaint\u003c/a> charged him with conspiracy to impede an officer. The felony charge carries up to six years in federal prison, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chanting “Bring our brother home,” some 60 labor activists rallied in support of Huerta on Monday in front of San Francisco’s state building, part of a national chorus of protests calling for Huerta’s release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am truly, truly sad by what’s going on right now,” Kristin Hardy, SEIU 1021’s San Francisco vice president, told attendees. “He [was among those] detained for exercising their First Amendment rights and advocating for immigrant workers. He belongs home. He belongs here with the people fighting for the working class.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration was one of several held in San Francisco and other cities throughout California on Monday, with more actions planned as the Trump administration ramps up immigration enforcement in the state. It follows the arrest of more than 150 protesters in the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043255/sf-protesters-denounce-ice-raids-and-trumps-national-guard-deployment-to-la\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on Sunday night\u003c/span>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta was detained while documenting and protesting a workplace raid in downtown L.A.’s garment district. \u003ca href=\"https://abc7.com/post/seiu-president-injured-detained-during-confrontation-dtla-amid-response-ice-raids/16682922/\">Video footage\u003c/a> of Huerta’s arrest shows the labor leader being violently knocked to the ground and lying with his head on the curb. Agents took Huerta, 58, to a nearby hospital before booking him in Metropolitan Detention Center, where he remained in custody until Monday, according to \u003ca href=\"https://seiuca.org/press-releases/2025/06/06/seiu-california-president-david-huerta-injured-detained-at-ice-raid-in-los-angeles/\">a union statement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12043438 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SEIU Local 87 president Olga Miranda speaks during a rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shortly after Huerta’s arrest on Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom called him “a respected leader, a patriot, and an advocate for working people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one should ever be harmed for witnessing government action,” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CAgovernor/status/1931163239066509555\">he wrote on X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, U.S. Sens. 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Who are you with?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The criminal complaint alleges that Huerta joined other protesters before noon on Friday at the scene of the raid, after a federal judge authorized search warrants for four businesses “suspected of unlawfully employing illegal aliens and falsifying employment records related to the status of its employees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal officer, whose name is redacted in the affidavit, accused Huerta of yelling at and taunting officers and then sitting cross-legged in front of the vehicle gate, “effectively preventing law enforcement vehicles from entering or exiting the premises through the gate to execute the search warrant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-SEIUPROTESTS-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators rally outside the California State Building in San Francisco on June 9, 2025, calling for the release of SEIU California President David Huerta. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Huerta’s arrest, and subsequent backlash, follows a weekend of tumultuous protests against raids in L.A. and surrounding areas, in which activists clashed with local law enforcement officials. In response to the unrest, President Trump deployed as many as \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/06/statement-from-the-white-house-d320/\">2,000 National Guardsmen\u003c/a> into the city on Saturday without Newsom’s consent, arguing that doing so was necessary to protect ICE and other federal immigration agents from the “violent mobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deployment, which appeared to be the first time in decades that a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor, was roundly condemned by Newsom and scores of other state and local leaders, accusing the president of inflaming tensions and sowing chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">announced the state planned\u003c/a> to sue the administration over its deployment of National Guard troops, saying that the president had unlawfully “trampled” the state’s sovereignty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t take lightly to the president abusing his authority and unlawfully mobilizing California National Guard troops,” said Bonta, who planned to seek a court order requesting a restraining order to halt the deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Pentagon on Monday also mobilized more than \u003ca href=\"https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/09/politics/marines-mobilized-los-angeles-protests\">700 Marines\u003c/a> in California to respond to the protests, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/06/09/g-s1-71640/trump-mobilizes-marines-for-duty-in-los-angeles\">NPR confirmed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Rudy Gonzalez, Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council, warned demonstrators on Monday that the administration’s actions pose a direct threat to American society and democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is fundamentally under attack by a fascist state, and there will be a time when David Huerta is not the only labor leader,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Now, more than 350 who were enrolled as of last week are at risk of losing that lifeline in the coming weeks, as the Department of Labor plans to pause operations at Job Corps centers across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of us have nowhere to go,” said Eddie Lopez, 19, one of dozens of students, staff members and community advocates who gathered Thursday to protest the termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez came to the center four months ago, after couch surfing in the East Bay and trying to find a job to support himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042991\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042991\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students, staff and supporters rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We came here with nothing — no job, no home, no support system — and now they expect us to find something in a couple of days. It’s just really heartbreaking and horrifying and inhumane,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez and other students at Treasure Island found out last week that they would need to leave the island after the Department of Labor announced it would indefinitely pause operations at the end of June at the vast majority of its 131 trade schools that offer free schooling, housing and healthcare to low-income 16 to 24 year olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer said in a statement that the department had reviewed the program and determined that it was “no longer achieving the intended outcomes that students deserve,” based on a review of serious incident reports at Job Corps sites and the financial impact of the program, which operated with a $140 million deficit in 2024.[aside postID=news_12042125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250529-JOBCORPSCENTER-07-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']About 250 of the 375 students who resided on Treasure Island prior to the DOL’s announcement have already left, and more are preparing to leave by the end of the week, according to Lacy Barnes, a representative for the Union of Teachers and Classified Professionals, which represents the center’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042125/trump-pauses-job-corps-leaving-san-jose-trade-students-in-turmoil\">similar exodus\u003c/a> has happened at the San José Job Corps site, where another 350 students found out last Thursday that their program would be shut down, and some were told to pack their bags within days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other students, including Lopez, plan to stay on campus until they’re forced to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order to a trade group representing Job Corps center operators suing the Department of Labor over its abrupt announcement, ordering the department not to pause work or terminate agreements with contractors until a further ruling. The order lasts through June 17, when a hearing is scheduled in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter grants the contractors an injunction that would extend until the case could be decided in court, Barnes worries that the chaos over the last week cannot be rectified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042992\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042992\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Lara, executive vice president of United Educators of San Francisco, speaks during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The damage that’s incurred — we can’t recoup that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students who come to job corps centers escaped difficult home situations or were previously unhoused, and are at heightened risk if they are forced to return to those circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Isaiah Moncrease, who recently completed the culinary program at Treasure Island, said without it, he isn’t sure he would see a future where he has a legal job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got into gang life, I sold drugs, and I almost ended up in jail multiple times,” he said. “This program not only saved my life, but saved the lives of countless other students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to Job Corps, Moncrease said he and his siblings had been moved around nine states and more than 50 counties by his mother, who was struggling with drug addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She went wherever the drugs were, and we went with her,” he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042990\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042990\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-12-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colleen Jeffers, president of the Council of Classified Employees (CFT), listens to speakers during a rally outside the Treasure Island Job Corps Center in San Francisco on June 5, 2025, protesting the facility’s upcoming closure, which they say could leave at-risk youth homeless. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he landed in Antioch with his father, where he said he was abused. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042012/farmworkers-in-sonoma-county-win-settlement-after-alleged-retaliation\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sólo unos metros de hoteles de lujo y salas de degustación, trabajadores agrícolas y activistas laborales se manifestaron el 28 de mayo en Healdsburg, el núcleo de la multimillonaria industria vinícola del condado de Sonoma, para anunciar un acuerdo con Redwood Empire Vineyard Management (o REVM por sus siglas en inglés), una empresa de gestión de viñedos con sede en Geyserville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¿Tienen miedo? ¡No! ¿Están cansados? ¡No!”, gritaban los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM pagará 33 mil 548 dólares a siete empleados después de que la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas (o ALRB por sus siglas en inglés) del estado determinara que la empresa se negó a ofrecerles trabajo por haber formado parte de iniciativas para mejorar las condiciones laborales. La ALRB también descubrió que REVM obligó a los trabajadores agrícolas el año pasado a firmar un contrato en el que se comprometían a ser despedidos inmediatamente si intentaban renegociar su sueldo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#algo\">\u003cstrong>Ir directo a: Qué hacer si le ocurre algo similar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según funcionarios estatales, las acciones de la empresa se consideran prácticas laborales injustas que violan la \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\">Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todos tenemos derecho a organizarnos con nuestros compañeros de trabajo para exigir mejores condiciones laborales y no sufrir represalias”, afirmó Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la ALRB. “En este caso, los trabajadores asistían a protestas y marchas para exigir mejores salarios. Eso es una condición laboral”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM no respondió a las múltiples solicitudes de comentarios por parte de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California (ALRB), habla en una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la ALRB por represalias y acciones ilegales por parte de la gerencia, esto en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>José Alejandro Cuevas Fuentes y Yolanda Prida González son algunos de los trabajadores agrícolas que colaboraron con la investigación de la ALRB. Ambos trabajaron para REVM durante varios años, ayudando a cuidar y cosechar los numerosos viñedos que la empresa gestiona en la región. Pero las cosas cambiaron cuando asistieron a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997877/farmworkers-remain-in-the-fields-during-wildfires-now-theyre-marching-for-hazard-pay\">una marcha el 28 de julio en Healdsburg\u003c/a>, cuando cientos trabajadores agrícolas salieron a las calles a reclamar salarios más altos que tomen en cuenta los riesgos que corren durante la temporada de incendios forestales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahí fue cuando las cosas empezaron a ponerse feas”, dijo Cuevas Fuentes, y añadió que un compañero le avisó de que los jefes \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/farmworkers-march-wages-healdsburg/?artslide=10\">habían visto una foto suya en la marcha\u003c/a> tomada por el periódico The Press Democrat. El 14 de agosto, Cuevas Fuentes intentó asistir a una reunión organizada por REVM para quienes iban a trabajar en la cosecha del otoño de 2024, pero fue impedido por la dirección de la empresa, que le señaló que su nombre ya no aparecía en la lista del equipo de trabajo a pesar de sus años de experiencia en la cosecha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando Alejandro me dijo que lo habían rechazado para la cosecha, Ese fue el impacto para mí que me dio la depresión”, dijo Prida González, pareja de Cuevas Fuentes. Juntos están criando a dos hijas. Para entonces, ella también había sido despedida por REVM. “Estaba muy decepcionada con mis jefes porque había trabajado con ellos durante muchos años, pero lo único que recibí de ellos fue su rechazo e indiferencia”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con la ayuda del grupo de derechos laborales North Bay Jobs With Justice, la pareja, junto con cinco compañeros de trabajo, presentaron denuncias ante la ALRB, que inició una investigación de varios meses que incluyó entrevistas con empleados y directivos de REVM. La pareja aún tenía que encontrar una forma de pagar las facturas y mantener a sus hijas mientras continuaba la investigación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todo esto hizo que mi depresión fuera mucho más difícil. No quiero que los compañeros sufran lo mismo”, dijo Prida González. “Quiero que todos mis compañeros comprendan que tienen estos derechos y que dejen de lado el miedo a alzar la voz”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El miedo, la falta de información y la \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">intimidación por parte de la dirección\u003c/a> son factores que dificultan enormemente que los trabajadores agrícolas busquen ayuda, según Armando Elenes, secretario tesorero de United Farm Workers, quien habla con trabajadores de todo el estado sobre sus derechos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque California cuenta con mecanismos para exigir a los empleadores que sigan la ley, Elenes añadió: “Muchos trabajadores simplemente aceptan las represalias y se van a otro empleador”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuantos más trabajadores se unan y formen sindicatos o emprendan acciones conjuntas, más podremos hacer frente a estos problemas”, afirmó. “La clave está en que los trabajadores participen y formen parte del proceso, eso es lo que hace que todo lo demás funcione”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como parte del acuerdo, REVM ya no exigirá a los empleados que firmen un contrato con cláusulas que amenacen con el despido por solicitar salarios más altos. Además, la empresa se ha comprometido con la ALRB a respetar los derechos de sus empleados a organizarse para mejorar sus condiciones laborales. En las próximas semanas, funcionarios de la ALRB hablarán con los trabajadores agrícolas de REVM sobre los derechos que les protegen y cómo identificar posibles represalias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los siete trabajadores del caso también tienen la oportunidad de volver a REVM. Por el momento, Cuevas Fuentes no volverá, pero Prida González sí ha regresado para asegurarse de que la empresa cumple su parte del acuerdo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los trabajadores necesitamos ver cambios”, afirmó, y añadió que cree que su regreso a la empresa demostrará a sus compañeros que arriesgarse a alzar la voz tiene resultados. “Las cosas tienen que mejorar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vecinos y activistas laborales asisten a una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas contra Redwood Empire Vineyard Management por represalias, en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"algo\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pasaría si a usted le ocurre algo similar en su trabajo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED tiene \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960536/trabaja-en-los-campos-de-california-que-hacer-si-sufre-represalias\">una guía disponible sobre qué hacer si usted es trabajador agrícola\u003c/a> y su empleador ha tomado represalias contra usted por denunciar sus condiciones laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no es trabajador agrícola, siga leyendo para conocer la opinión de abogados expertos en derecho laboral en California y saber qué derechos y protecciones tienen todos los trabajadores cuando solicitan un aumento salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Los riesgos de hacer algo por su cuenta\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>¿Quiere hablar con su jefe sobre cuánto le pagan? Por lo general, estará más protegido si lo hace junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, según Juan Villalvazo, abogado especializado en derechos laborales de La Raza Centro Legal, un grupo de asistencia jurídica en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si se dirige a su jefe por su cuenta con el único objetivo de hablar sobre su salario, la situación podría ser muy diferente, afirma Villalvazo. En California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TerminationOfEmployment.pdf\">tener un trabajo se considera de “voluntad propia”\u003c/a>, lo que significa que un empleador puede despedir a un trabajador en cualquier momento. Por supuesto, el empleo de voluntad propia también significa que un empleado puede renunciar en cualquier momento, pero le da “al empleador mucha deferencia y protección”, dice Villalvazo, y “su empleador tiene derecho a despedirlo por cualquier motivo, siempre y cuando el motivo subyacente no sea ilegal”.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']¿Qué sería ilegal en este caso? Un empleador podría tener problemas si el motivo por el que despide a alguien es discriminatorio (por motivos de raza, religión, género, discapacidad, orientación sexual u otra categoría protegida) o para tomar represalias contra un empleado que haya participado en una “actividad protegida”, como denunciar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002744/trabaja-en-interiores-durante-una-ola-de-calor-descubra-como-le-protegen-las-leyes-de-california\">condiciones de trabajo inseguras\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero cuando la conversación que quiera tener con su jefe es solo sobre su salario individual, la ley le da a su empleador mucho más poder. Podría acudir a su jefe y pedirle un aumento, dijo Villalvazo, pero “no solo no están obligados a concedérselo, sino que podrían despedirle y decirle: ‘Bueno, voy a contratar a alguien que esté contento con el salario'”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Palmer, socio de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, un bufete que ofrece servicios jurídicos a los trabajadores, coincidió en que los empleados son más vulnerables cuando actúan solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los empleados se encuentran en una posición mucho más sólida desde el punto de vista jurídico si plantean sus preocupaciones sobre su sueldo, no solo en nombre propio, sino también en nombre de los demás”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cientos de trabajadores agrícolas de North Bay Jobs With Justice y simpatizantes de la comunidad marchan por el puente Healdsburg Memorial Bridge para exigir salarios más altos y pagos por desastre, el 28 de julio de 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>La unión hace la fuerza\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Acudir a su jefe para hablar sobre el salario, esta vez acompañado de sus compañeros de trabajo que tienen las mismas preocupaciones sobre su propia remuneración, no solo le coloca en una posición más fuerte para negociar, sino que también le proporciona una capa de protección legal, afirma Palmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto se debe a que las leyes estatales y federales protegen el derecho de los trabajadores a participar en “actividades concertadas”, lo que se define como cualquier acción emprendida por los empleados en nombre de un grupo, no solo en nombre propio, explica Palmer. “Puede tratarse de una acción emprendida como grupo, o puede ser un individuo que toma la iniciativa y plantea las inquietudes en nombre de otras personas”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un ejemplo muy conocido de actividad concertada es la formación de un sindicato por parte de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, la \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/espanol\">Ley Nacional de Relaciones Laborales\u003c/a> protege los derechos de todos los empleados a buscar mejores condiciones, no solo los que forman parte de un sindicato. La \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">Ley nacional de relaciones laborales\u003c/a>, aprobada por el Congreso tras \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-labor-relations-act\">décadas de organización liderada por los trabajadores\u003c/a>, protege el derecho de los trabajadores a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hablar entre sí sobre sus salarios y condiciones laborales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hacer circular una petición para solicitar mejores horarios.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participar en un rechazo colectivo a trabajar en condiciones inseguras.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hablar, junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, con su empleador, con organismos gubernamentales o con los medios de comunicación sobre los problemas en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La Junta Nacional de Relaciones Laborales, que vela por el cumplimiento de las leyes laborales a nivel federal, advierte que los empleados \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">podrían perder sus protecciones\u003c/a> si se comunican con su empleador de una manera que pueda considerarse “gravemente ofensiva o deliberadamente falsa” o si “desprestigian públicamente” los productos del empleador de una manera que no esté relacionada con los asuntos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por eso, Palmer recomienda a los empleados que siempre “planteen sus inquietudes con respeto” pero a la misma vez, “con seguridad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabajadores sostienen carteles en español en una rueda de prensa organizada por North Bay Jobs with Justice en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Puede un contrato prohibirle hablar sobre un aumento salarial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En el caso de los trabajadores agrícolas del condado de Sonoma, su empleador incluyó una cláusula en su contrato que amenazaba con el despido inmediato si los empleados hablaban sobre sus salarios. Los funcionarios de la ARLB determinaron que la cláusula violaba la ley estatal que protege los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas a negociar colectivamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese contrato básicamente les impide siquiera empezar a organizarse o hablar sobre ello”, dijo De Luna, de la ALRB.[aside postID=\"news_12002744\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Cooks-in-Kitchen.jpg\"]Pero si usted trabaja en otro sector que no es el agrícola, ¿puede su empleador añadir una cláusula en su contrato de trabajo que le impida a usted o a sus compañeros pedir un aumento de sueldo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eso seguiría siendo una violación de la ley, afirmó Villavalzo, de La Raza Centro Legal. “Como grupo, tienen derecho a discutir entre ustedes los salarios, las prestaciones y las condiciones en el lugar de trabajo”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer, de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, dijo que el contrato que REVM ofreció a los trabajadores en 2024 restringe a los empleados la posibilidad de participar en una amplia gama de acciones, incluidas las actividades en grupo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es un intento claro de impedir que los empleados se comuniquen con sus compañeros sobre las preocupaciones que tienen”, afirmó Palmer. Si bien los empleadores pueden despedir a los trabajadores que inician peleas o crean un entorno de trabajo inseguro, “eso no es lo que pretende este tipo de disposición”, señaló. En cambio, “se trata simplemente de una exigencia clara de que los empleados no participen en ningún tipo de actividad concertada ni se comuniquen sobre las condiciones de trabajo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cómo hablar con su jefe sobre el sueldo: lo que sugieren los expertos legales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según Palmer, es importante que los trabajadores se sientan cómodos expresando “que conocen su valor”, pero afirma que “siempre existe un riesgo” al pedir un aumento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted y otros compañeros creen que lo que se les paga no equivale el trabajo que realizan y piensan que tienen argumentos sólidos, hay cosas que pueden hacer para protegerse durante y después de las conversaciones con su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En primer lugar, recuerde que estará más protegido si solicita un aumento “como parte de una acción concertada en la que hace la solicitud junto con otros”, dijo Palmer. Pero también es una buena idea comprobar con antelación qué remuneración reciben otras personas por realizar un trabajo similar en otros lugares, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo destaca la importancia de mantener buenas relaciones con los compañeros de trabajo. “Si es amigo de sus compañeros de trabajo, será más fácil trabajar en equipo”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo también recomienda llevar un registro escrito de las conversaciones que mantenga con sus compañeros de trabajo, cuando decidan entre todos qué solicitar, y con su empleador cuando presente la solicitud. La comunicación escrita no tiene por qué ser muy formal, afirma, “puede ser simplemente un mensaje de texto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si utiliza WhatsApp para hablar de asuntos laborales, tenga en cuenta que la aplicación permite a un usuario individual eliminar mensajes y chats para todas las demás personas que forman parte del grupo. Puede considerar la posibilidad de hacer capturas de pantalla del chat para mantener un registro de las conversaciones, o incluso proponer a sus compañeros que se comuniquen a través de otra aplicación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo señala que, en muchos lugares de trabajo de California, algunos empleados trabajan con un estatus migratorio legal, mientras que otros pueden no tenerlo. “Mantenga la solidaridad con todos sus compañeros de trabajo, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, porque al fin y al cabo, todos ustedes \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/es/factsheet/immigration-related-retaliation-in-the-workplace/\">comparten muchos de los mismos derechos\u003c/a>”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si usted y sus colegas creen que su empleador les redujo el salario o los despidió por solicitar un aumento de manera colectiva, pueden presentar una queja ante la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral del estado. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofileretaliationcomplaint.htm\">Puede presentar una queja por represalias en línea\u003c/a> o llamando al 714-558-4913.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque puede tomar varios meses para que una queja sea procesada por la Oficina del Comisionado de Trabajo, la agencia tiene la autoridad para investigar a los empleadores, imponer sanciones y restituir a ciertos trabajadores sus salarios perdidos o sus empleos.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042012/farmworkers-in-sonoma-county-win-settlement-after-alleged-retaliation\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A sólo unos metros de hoteles de lujo y salas de degustación, trabajadores agrícolas y activistas laborales se manifestaron el 28 de mayo en Healdsburg, el núcleo de la multimillonaria industria vinícola del condado de Sonoma, para anunciar un acuerdo con Redwood Empire Vineyard Management (o REVM por sus siglas en inglés), una empresa de gestión de viñedos con sede en Geyserville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¿Tienen miedo? ¡No! ¿Están cansados? ¡No!”, gritaban los trabajadores.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM pagará 33 mil 548 dólares a siete empleados después de que la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas (o ALRB por sus siglas en inglés) del estado determinara que la empresa se negó a ofrecerles trabajo por haber formado parte de iniciativas para mejorar las condiciones laborales. La ALRB también descubrió que REVM obligó a los trabajadores agrícolas el año pasado a firmar un contrato en el que se comprometían a ser despedidos inmediatamente si intentaban renegociar su sueldo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#algo\">\u003cstrong>Ir directo a: Qué hacer si le ocurre algo similar\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Según funcionarios estatales, las acciones de la empresa se consideran prácticas laborales injustas que violan la \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\">Ley de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todos tenemos derecho a organizarnos con nuestros compañeros de trabajo para exigir mejores condiciones laborales y no sufrir represalias”, afirmó Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la ALRB. “En este caso, los trabajadores asistían a protestas y marchas para exigir mejores salarios. Eso es una condición laboral”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>REVM no respondió a las múltiples solicitudes de comentarios por parte de KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042830\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042830\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/pic-of-Jesenia-de-Luna-with-megaphone-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yesenia De Luna, directora regional de la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas de California (ALRB), habla en una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la ALRB por represalias y acciones ilegales por parte de la gerencia, esto en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>José Alejandro Cuevas Fuentes y Yolanda Prida González son algunos de los trabajadores agrícolas que colaboraron con la investigación de la ALRB. Ambos trabajaron para REVM durante varios años, ayudando a cuidar y cosechar los numerosos viñedos que la empresa gestiona en la región. Pero las cosas cambiaron cuando asistieron a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997877/farmworkers-remain-in-the-fields-during-wildfires-now-theyre-marching-for-hazard-pay\">una marcha el 28 de julio en Healdsburg\u003c/a>, cuando cientos trabajadores agrícolas salieron a las calles a reclamar salarios más altos que tomen en cuenta los riesgos que corren durante la temporada de incendios forestales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ahí fue cuando las cosas empezaron a ponerse feas”, dijo Cuevas Fuentes, y añadió que un compañero le avisó de que los jefes \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/farmworkers-march-wages-healdsburg/?artslide=10\">habían visto una foto suya en la marcha\u003c/a> tomada por el periódico The Press Democrat. El 14 de agosto, Cuevas Fuentes intentó asistir a una reunión organizada por REVM para quienes iban a trabajar en la cosecha del otoño de 2024, pero fue impedido por la dirección de la empresa, que le señaló que su nombre ya no aparecía en la lista del equipo de trabajo a pesar de sus años de experiencia en la cosecha.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando Alejandro me dijo que lo habían rechazado para la cosecha, Ese fue el impacto para mí que me dio la depresión”, dijo Prida González, pareja de Cuevas Fuentes. Juntos están criando a dos hijas. Para entonces, ella también había sido despedida por REVM. “Estaba muy decepcionada con mis jefes porque había trabajado con ellos durante muchos años, pero lo único que recibí de ellos fue su rechazo e indiferencia”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Con la ayuda del grupo de derechos laborales North Bay Jobs With Justice, la pareja, junto con cinco compañeros de trabajo, presentaron denuncias ante la ALRB, que inició una investigación de varios meses que incluyó entrevistas con empleados y directivos de REVM. La pareja aún tenía que encontrar una forma de pagar las facturas y mantener a sus hijas mientras continuaba la investigación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todo esto hizo que mi depresión fuera mucho más difícil. No quiero que los compañeros sufran lo mismo”, dijo Prida González. “Quiero que todos mis compañeros comprendan que tienen estos derechos y que dejen de lado el miedo a alzar la voz”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El miedo, la falta de información y la \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11919450/trabajar-con-una-visa-h-2a-en-estados-unidos-represalias-derechos\">intimidación por parte de la dirección\u003c/a> son factores que dificultan enormemente que los trabajadores agrícolas busquen ayuda, según Armando Elenes, secretario tesorero de United Farm Workers, quien habla con trabajadores de todo el estado sobre sus derechos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque California cuenta con mecanismos para exigir a los empleadores que sigan la ley, Elenes añadió: “Muchos trabajadores simplemente aceptan las represalias y se van a otro empleador”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuantos más trabajadores se unan y formen sindicatos o emprendan acciones conjuntas, más podremos hacer frente a estos problemas”, afirmó. “La clave está en que los trabajadores participen y formen parte del proceso, eso es lo que hace que todo lo demás funcione”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Como parte del acuerdo, REVM ya no exigirá a los empleados que firmen un contrato con cláusulas que amenacen con el despido por solicitar salarios más altos. Además, la empresa se ha comprometido con la ALRB a respetar los derechos de sus empleados a organizarse para mejorar sus condiciones laborales. En las próximas semanas, funcionarios de la ALRB hablarán con los trabajadores agrícolas de REVM sobre los derechos que les protegen y cómo identificar posibles represalias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los siete trabajadores del caso también tienen la oportunidad de volver a REVM. Por el momento, Cuevas Fuentes no volverá, pero Prida González sí ha regresado para asegurarse de que la empresa cumple su parte del acuerdo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los trabajadores necesitamos ver cambios”, afirmó, y añadió que cree que su regreso a la empresa demostrará a sus compañeros que arriesgarse a alzar la voz tiene resultados. “Las cosas tienen que mejorar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042831\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042831\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/people-with-signs-on-the-grassy-ground-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vecinos y activistas laborales asisten a una conferencia de prensa después de que siete trabajadores agrícolas recibieran casi 34 mil dólares como indemnización por una denuncia presentada por la Junta de Relaciones Laborales Agrícolas contra Redwood Empire Vineyard Management por represalias, en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"algo\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pasaría si a usted le ocurre algo similar en su trabajo?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>KQED tiene \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11960536/trabaja-en-los-campos-de-california-que-hacer-si-sufre-represalias\">una guía disponible sobre qué hacer si usted es trabajador agrícola\u003c/a> y su empleador ha tomado represalias contra usted por denunciar sus condiciones laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si no es trabajador agrícola, siga leyendo para conocer la opinión de abogados expertos en derecho laboral en California y saber qué derechos y protecciones tienen todos los trabajadores cuando solicitan un aumento salarial.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Los riesgos de hacer algo por su cuenta\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>¿Quiere hablar con su jefe sobre cuánto le pagan? Por lo general, estará más protegido si lo hace junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, según Juan Villalvazo, abogado especializado en derechos laborales de La Raza Centro Legal, un grupo de asistencia jurídica en San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si se dirige a su jefe por su cuenta con el único objetivo de hablar sobre su salario, la situación podría ser muy diferente, afirma Villalvazo. En California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TerminationOfEmployment.pdf\">tener un trabajo se considera de “voluntad propia”\u003c/a>, lo que significa que un empleador puede despedir a un trabajador en cualquier momento. Por supuesto, el empleo de voluntad propia también significa que un empleado puede renunciar en cualquier momento, pero le da “al empleador mucha deferencia y protección”, dice Villalvazo, y “su empleador tiene derecho a despedirlo por cualquier motivo, siempre y cuando el motivo subyacente no sea ilegal”.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>¿Qué sería ilegal en este caso? Un empleador podría tener problemas si el motivo por el que despide a alguien es discriminatorio (por motivos de raza, religión, género, discapacidad, orientación sexual u otra categoría protegida) o para tomar represalias contra un empleado que haya participado en una “actividad protegida”, como denunciar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002744/trabaja-en-interiores-durante-una-ola-de-calor-descubra-como-le-protegen-las-leyes-de-california\">condiciones de trabajo inseguras\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero cuando la conversación que quiera tener con su jefe es solo sobre su salario individual, la ley le da a su empleador mucho más poder. Podría acudir a su jefe y pedirle un aumento, dijo Villalvazo, pero “no solo no están obligados a concedérselo, sino que podrían despedirle y decirle: ‘Bueno, voy a contratar a alguien que esté contento con el salario'”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Palmer, socio de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, un bufete que ofrece servicios jurídicos a los trabajadores, coincidió en que los empleados son más vulnerables cuando actúan solos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Los empleados se encuentran en una posición mucho más sólida desde el punto de vista jurídico si plantean sus preocupaciones sobre su sueldo, no solo en nombre propio, sino también en nombre de los demás”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042832\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/protestors-on-bridge-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cientos de trabajadores agrícolas de North Bay Jobs With Justice y simpatizantes de la comunidad marchan por el puente Healdsburg Memorial Bridge para exigir salarios más altos y pagos por desastre, el 28 de julio de 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>La unión hace la fuerza\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Acudir a su jefe para hablar sobre el salario, esta vez acompañado de sus compañeros de trabajo que tienen las mismas preocupaciones sobre su propia remuneración, no solo le coloca en una posición más fuerte para negociar, sino que también le proporciona una capa de protección legal, afirma Palmer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esto se debe a que las leyes estatales y federales protegen el derecho de los trabajadores a participar en “actividades concertadas”, lo que se define como cualquier acción emprendida por los empleados en nombre de un grupo, no solo en nombre propio, explica Palmer. “Puede tratarse de una acción emprendida como grupo, o puede ser un individuo que toma la iniciativa y plantea las inquietudes en nombre de otras personas”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Un ejemplo muy conocido de actividad concertada es la formación de un sindicato por parte de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, la \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/espanol\">Ley Nacional de Relaciones Laborales\u003c/a> protege los derechos de todos los empleados a buscar mejores condiciones, no solo los que forman parte de un sindicato. La \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">Ley nacional de relaciones laborales\u003c/a>, aprobada por el Congreso tras \u003ca href=\"https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/national-labor-relations-act\">décadas de organización liderada por los trabajadores\u003c/a>, protege el derecho de los trabajadores a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Hablar entre sí sobre sus salarios y condiciones laborales.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hacer circular una petición para solicitar mejores horarios.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Participar en un rechazo colectivo a trabajar en condiciones inseguras.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Hablar, junto con sus compañeros de trabajo, con su empleador, con organismos gubernamentales o con los medios de comunicación sobre los problemas en su lugar de trabajo.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>La Junta Nacional de Relaciones Laborales, que vela por el cumplimiento de las leyes laborales a nivel federal, advierte que los empleados \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlrb.gov/es\">podrían perder sus protecciones\u003c/a> si se comunican con su empleador de una manera que pueda considerarse “gravemente ofensiva o deliberadamente falsa” o si “desprestigian públicamente” los productos del empleador de una manera que no esté relacionada con los asuntos laborales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por eso, Palmer recomienda a los empleados que siempre “planteen sus inquietudes con respeto” pero a la misma vez, “con seguridad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/la-union-hace-la-fuerza-signs-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trabajadores sostienen carteles en español en una rueda de prensa organizada por North Bay Jobs with Justice en Healdsburg Plaza, en Healdsburg, el 28 de mayo de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Puede un contrato prohibirle hablar sobre un aumento salarial?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>En el caso de los trabajadores agrícolas del condado de Sonoma, su empleador incluyó una cláusula en su contrato que amenazaba con el despido inmediato si los empleados hablaban sobre sus salarios. Los funcionarios de la ARLB determinaron que la cláusula violaba la ley estatal que protege los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas a negociar colectivamente.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese contrato básicamente les impide siquiera empezar a organizarse o hablar sobre ello”, dijo De Luna, de la ALRB.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Pero si usted trabaja en otro sector que no es el agrícola, ¿puede su empleador añadir una cláusula en su contrato de trabajo que le impida a usted o a sus compañeros pedir un aumento de sueldo?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eso seguiría siendo una violación de la ley, afirmó Villavalzo, de La Raza Centro Legal. “Como grupo, tienen derecho a discutir entre ustedes los salarios, las prestaciones y las condiciones en el lugar de trabajo”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer, de Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, dijo que el contrato que REVM ofreció a los trabajadores en 2024 restringe a los empleados la posibilidad de participar en una amplia gama de acciones, incluidas las actividades en grupo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es un intento claro de impedir que los empleados se comuniquen con sus compañeros sobre las preocupaciones que tienen”, afirmó Palmer. Si bien los empleadores pueden despedir a los trabajadores que inician peleas o crean un entorno de trabajo inseguro, “eso no es lo que pretende este tipo de disposición”, señaló. En cambio, “se trata simplemente de una exigencia clara de que los empleados no participen en ningún tipo de actividad concertada ni se comuniquen sobre las condiciones de trabajo”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Cómo hablar con su jefe sobre el sueldo: lo que sugieren los expertos legales\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Según Palmer, es importante que los trabajadores se sientan cómodos expresando “que conocen su valor”, pero afirma que “siempre existe un riesgo” al pedir un aumento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si usted y otros compañeros creen que lo que se les paga no equivale el trabajo que realizan y piensan que tienen argumentos sólidos, hay cosas que pueden hacer para protegerse durante y después de las conversaciones con su empleador.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En primer lugar, recuerde que estará más protegido si solicita un aumento “como parte de una acción concertada en la que hace la solicitud junto con otros”, dijo Palmer. Pero también es una buena idea comprobar con antelación qué remuneración reciben otras personas por realizar un trabajo similar en otros lugares, añadió.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo destaca la importancia de mantener buenas relaciones con los compañeros de trabajo. “Si es amigo de sus compañeros de trabajo, será más fácil trabajar en equipo”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo también recomienda llevar un registro escrito de las conversaciones que mantenga con sus compañeros de trabajo, cuando decidan entre todos qué solicitar, y con su empleador cuando presente la solicitud. La comunicación escrita no tiene por qué ser muy formal, afirma, “puede ser simplemente un mensaje de texto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si utiliza WhatsApp para hablar de asuntos laborales, tenga en cuenta que la aplicación permite a un usuario individual eliminar mensajes y chats para todas las demás personas que forman parte del grupo. Puede considerar la posibilidad de hacer capturas de pantalla del chat para mantener un registro de las conversaciones, o incluso proponer a sus compañeros que se comuniquen a través de otra aplicación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Villalvazo señala que, en muchos lugares de trabajo de California, algunos empleados trabajan con un estatus migratorio legal, mientras que otros pueden no tenerlo. “Mantenga la solidaridad con todos sus compañeros de trabajo, independientemente de su estatus migratorio, porque al fin y al cabo, todos ustedes \u003ca href=\"https://legalaidatwork.org/es/factsheet/immigration-related-retaliation-in-the-workplace/\">comparten muchos de los mismos derechos\u003c/a>”, afirma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y si usted y sus colegas creen que su empleador les redujo el salario o los despidió por solicitar un aumento de manera colectiva, pueden presentar una queja ante la Oficina del Comisionado Laboral del estado. \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofileretaliationcomplaint.htm\">Puede presentar una queja por represalias en línea\u003c/a> o llamando al 714-558-4913.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aunque puede tomar varios meses para que una queja sea procesada por la Oficina del Comisionado de Trabajo, la agencia tiene la autoridad para investigar a los empleadores, imponer sanciones y restituir a ciertos trabajadores sus salarios perdidos o sus empleos.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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