No Covid money for the cops!
No new spending increases to OPD!
Expand the MACRO non-police emergency program!
Invest in housing, early education, youth programs, a living wage for city workers, and other vital services that actually keep us safe!
The recruitment and retention crisis demands a COLA and maintained health benefits that keep Oakland workers from falling further behind
The hiring crisis that everyone agrees exists is driven by understaffed and incompetent HR and its inability to work with departments
Huge numbers of well-qualified internal candidates are being passed up for promotion
And we have MULTIPLE examples
Job specs are frequently incorrectly designed, which makes hiring harder, and we have repeatedly come to the City with proposals to fix this to make things better, and nothing happens
HR claims that promoting from within "doesn't change the number of vacancies", but it's obviously easier to recruit and hire for lower-level positions, so his claim doesn't make any sense
We are eager to partner with the city to solve these problems and we always have been, because the problems need to be solved without gutting civil service rules
The vacancies are hurting services -- residents are SUFFERING without Parks & Rec, Libraries, etc.
The workforce is hurting, too -- Council may not hear about it, but our folks
are working crazy hours,
losing leave time when they're unable to telecommute,
exposed to the public for two and a half years of this pandemic,
assaulted or robbed at work
We're here on behalf of these folks, who you don't hear from, because at 10:30am on a Tuesday, they're at work, serving the people of Oakland
continued from previous - We poor and houseless peoples teach conscious folks with stolen land, hoarded and stolen resources how to radically redistribute and practice Interdependence and listen to poverty skolaz/indigenous solutions to poverty and homelessness, in a school POOR Magazine launched called PeopleSkool. From years of this teaching we raised the blood-stained into love-stained dollars to “buy” a small parcel of Mama Earth in Deep East Huchiun- (Ohlone Land) Oakland
POOR Magazine- the poor and indigenous people-led movement that launched homefulness - asked permission of Talking Chief/Spokesperson at Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone Corrina Gould before we proceeded as this is not our land of origin and all peoples should be asking permission and paying Shummi Tax before they do anything with stolen and occupied land anywhere on Turtle Island. Corrina agreed to be on our All Nations Elder Family council and help steward and guide this powerful, prayerful project into being.
No Covid money for the cops!
No new spending increases to OPD!
Expand the MACRO non-police emergency program!
Invest in housing, early education, youth programs, a living wage for city workers, and other vital services that actually keep us safe!
The recruitment and retention crisis demands a COLA and maintained health benefits that keep Oakland workers from falling further behind
The hiring crisis that everyone agrees exists is driven by understaffed and incompetent HR and its inability to work with departments
Huge numbers of well-qualified internal candidates are being passed up for promotion
And we have MULTIPLE examples
Job specs are frequently incorrectly designed, which makes hiring harder, and we have repeatedly come to the City with proposals to fix this to make things better, and nothing happens
HR claims that promoting from within "doesn't change the number of vacancies", but it's obviously easier to recruit and hire for lower-level positions, so his claim doesn't make any sense
We are eager to partner with the city to solve these problems and we always have been, because the problems need to be solved without gutting civil service rules
The vacancies are hurting services -- residents are SUFFERING without Parks & Rec, Libraries, etc.
The workforce is hurting, too -- Council may not hear about it, but our folks
are working crazy hours,
losing leave time when they're unable to telecommute,
exposed to the public for two and a half years of this pandemic,
assaulted or robbed at work
We're here on behalf of these folks, who you don't hear from, because at 10:30am on a Tuesday, they're at work, serving the people of Oakland
continued from previous - We poor and houseless peoples teach conscious folks with stolen land, hoarded and stolen resources how to radically redistribute and practice Interdependence and listen to poverty skolaz/indigenous solutions to poverty and homelessness, in a school POOR Magazine launched called PeopleSkool. From years of this teaching we raised the blood-stained into love-stained dollars to “buy” a small parcel of Mama Earth in Deep East Huchiun- (Ohlone Land) Oakland
POOR Magazine- the poor and indigenous people-led movement that launched homefulness - asked permission of Talking Chief/Spokesperson at Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone Corrina Gould before we proceeded as this is not our land of origin and all peoples should be asking permission and paying Shummi Tax before they do anything with stolen and occupied land anywhere on Turtle Island. Corrina agreed to be on our All Nations Elder Family council and help steward and guide this powerful, prayerful project into being.
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