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MARIN HOUSING AUTHORITY RESIDENTS & EMPLOYEES ARE STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST
CONTRACTING OUT!


CONTRACTORS HAVE BEEN TERRORIZING MARIN HOUSING AUTHORITY (MHA) RESIDENTS.

MHA's use of contractors is harming Marin County's most vulnerable. Residents
are already living with rats, mold, lack of heating, problematic plumbing, and
dubious electrical wiring. Make no mistake, the toll is not only physical but
mental and spiritual. To then have to deal with third-party contractors, some of
whom live as far away as Florida and New York, is unconscionable.

Indeed, at a time when unity and dialogue is most needed, stonewalling
negotiations and relying on temporary contractors exacerbates the already dire
living conditions of MHA. The fight to make MHA an employer capable of
attracting adequate levels of union staff is a fight for human decency, safety,
and a commitment to MHA's stated mission.

While this is a moral fight, it is also about the long-term financial health of
MHA. It is laudable that MHA has agreed to phase out its most abusive contractor
Nan Mackay. The proactive phasing out of Nan Mackay avoids situations such as
those at San Francisco Housing Authority, in which San Francisco Housing
Authority is currently suing Nan Mackay for $32.4 million for failing to provide
promised services. Third-party contractors are wholly unaccountable and lack the
intimate on-the-ground knowledge that union employees have to protect our most
vulnerable.

We share the Board’s vision of making MHA an employer capable of attracting
adequate levels of union staff. We demand that MHA negotiates with its employees
in good faith.

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THE FIGHT TO MAKE MHA AN EMPLOYER CAPABLE OF ATTRACTING ADEQUATE LEVELS OF UNION
STAFF IS A RACIAL JUSTICE ISSUE.

Caset Cep of The New Yorker reports that “of the more than ninety-five thousand
entries on the National Register of Historic Places – the list of sites deemed
worthy of preservation by the federal government – only two percent focus on the
experiences of Black Americans." This makes Golden Gate Village a rarity in this
regard – for far too often our elected officials have forgotten the racist,
violent history that has marred our country's collective march towards freedom
and justice for all.

In this spirit, let us restate the context for why the overwhelming majority of
the residents of Golden Gate Village are black.

During World War II – a war in which more than 400,000 Americans sacrificed
their lives to stop the specter of worldwide fascism – nearly 6,000 civilians
signed up to help build Liberty ships in the Marin shipyards.  Following the
war, the majority of the white shipyard workers left Marin, having secured
financial prosperity from their labor. Black workers, however, were largely left
behind and impoverished, a direct result of the County's redlining practices.

This is the historical context in which Golden Gate Village was built: to house
the black patriots whom this County failed.

We failed Marin County’s black population during World War II, and we are
continuing to fail our County’s black population today.

In one of the wealthiest counties in California, we should not be subjecting our
black public housing residents to living conditions with rats, mold, problematic
plumbing, lack of heating, and dubious electrical wiring. In doing so, we are
lunging a knife into scars, opening wounds, and deepening the structural racism
MHA's mission stands against.  

We must make MHA an employer capable of attracting adequate levels of union
staff. We demand that the MHA negotiates with its employees in good faith.


PROTECT MARIN HOUSING AUTHORITY RESIDENTS!