Dana El-Kurd

Nobody confessed to any union organizing activity.

That doesn't change that they continue to be suspicious.

In any case, we had our second meeting on May 14th.

At that meeting present were representatives from the IWW, as well as a representative from ILWU Local 5, because at that point we had not been formally endorsed by a union and...

We wanted to get some perspectives from whoever was available to speak to us, and those were the two shops that were available to come talk to us.

At that meeting, we again voted unanimously to continue with organizing, unionizing.

We were initially going to do it under the auspices of ILWU Local 5.

However, their onboarding protocols are a little bit more time-consuming and involved than the IWW's, and...

The following Monday, which Jackie Mae will be talking about in just a second, there were some circumstances that sort of forced us to go with the union who could get us on board lickety-split.

Yeah.

So that Monday, I want to say it was like midday.

I had just finished with like my, I want to say my first two people and was, I was on my way to the break room to grab a drink.

And on my way out, I see my coworker, fellow union member, and even my housemate come out of her office flanked by real you electrolysis management.

And the last time I saw her that day was she had tears streaming down her face and she just goes, Jackie Mae, they fired me.

And I responded immediately.

I got, I want to say, five or six of us to gather outside of Director of Operations Eric Lee's office.

And we voiced our displeasure.

We voiced that our coworkers should have their jobs back.

We voice that none of us feel safe because of the working conditions.

None of us feel safe because of the way management goes about handing out disciplinary actions.