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Anti-Union Propaganda Continues

Another day and another leaflet handed out to staff by management. The central argument of this leaflet is that we may end up with less. What more is there to take? The organization has been decimated and staff keep leaving in droves and our services are being...

Another Anti-Union Propaganda Leaflet

The new anti union message is that the union will be harmful for our organizational mission. Counter argument: is indiscriminately firing 40% of staff in the last year, while ignoring issues of racial equity, creating a toxic work environment, abolishing entire teams...

Even More Anti-Union Propaganda

More leaflets continue to be pushed onto the staff by management. This anti-union message is interesting because most employees already know that union dues will be about $40/month, and most Food Bankers are okay with that. Why? Because paying $40 to have job...

Anti-Union Meetings Continue…

The management at the food bank has decided that our time is best spent sitting through anti-union meetings. They have empowered the management team to hand out propaganda leaflets and the board of directors is trying to make appeals to the staff not to unionize and...

More Anti-Union Propaganda

Management continued to pass out anti-union propaganda leaflets. Do not believe that the union will hamper the Food Bank from being nimble. All a union does is create process and procedures when job duties need to be changed.  We all understand that as...

Public Letter to Paul Ash

We sent this letter to every food banker as well the board of directors. It's reproduced here for the public. Dear Mr. Ash, Please find the attached letter of support from Supervisor Shamann Walton of District 10. He has found the time to support us in our efforts and...

Election Details

We are pleased to announce that We have a union election on October 31st,2019. Coincidentally, that’s halloween! The locations are San Francisco POD north from 6am-8am, 12 noon-2 pm, and 4pm-5:30 pm. And Marin from 7am-9am and 1:30pm-3:30pm at the main conference...

Letters of Support

We have received a letter of support from San Francisco Supervisor, Shamann Walton who represents district 10 which is the location of the San Francisco Marin Food Bank warehouse and office.  Shamann Walton believes that unions, “provide a platform that...

Voting FAQs

Facts about Forming Our Union with OPEIU Local 29 An overwhelming majority of us have expressed support for having a union at SFMFB. Today, Oct. 10, 2019, we requested the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a neutral government agency, to hold a secret ballot...

Notice of Election

The NLRB has posted our notice for the upcoming election. See the notice below, or follow at the NLRB website here: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-249726.  In the coming days, we will decide on an election day as well a location to hold the vote. More news to...

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