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All workers in educational institutions.

SF School District Workers Call in Sick

Submitted by x344543 on Mon, 08/29/2005 - 2:40pm

Disclaimer - The following article is reposted here because it is an issue with some relevance to the IWW.  The views of the author and the publisher do not necessarily agree with those of the IWW and vice versa.

Suzanne Herel and Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writers - San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, August 29, 2005.

(08-29) 09:47 PDT San Francisco (SF Chronicle) -- A number of custodians, cafeteria workers and secretaries for the San Francisco Unified School District made good on their threat to call in sick this morning, the first day of school, to underscore their dissatisfaction with their union’s stalled contract negotiations.

District spokeswoman Lorna Ho said the absences were not expected to cause a significant disruption. “We planned for the worst when we heard there might be a sick-out,” Ho said.

She said it was too early to tell how widespread the action was. “We clearly do have some people at the central office who are not here,” she said.

All the custodians, secretaries and cafeteria workers at Malcolm X Academy elementary school in the Bayview were absent today, so volunteers were answering phones and serving breakfast in the cafeteria.