Take Action! Emergency Rally to Support Fired Striking CAMBA IT Union Workers

Tuesday, January 20, 1PM: CAMBA Inc. abruptly ended contract negotiations with the CAMBA IT Workers Union last week by announcing it would outsource the union jobs of its entire IT Department to an unidentified managed service provider (MSP). The news comes after the workers have been on strike for nine weeks, demanding pay equity over a 3-year CBA.

“We can see this transparently for what it really is: union-busting,” said CAMBA IT Union Bargaining Committeeman Rafael Faura. “As a CAMBA employee of twenty-seven years, I know this has nothing to do with efficiency or cost-savings. CAMBA management is infuriated that CAMBA workers bravely and rightly unionized to demand better working conditions.” Even before learning of the retaliatory layoffs, ALAA UAW Local 2325 previously filed ULPs against CAMBA for its failure to negotiate over required subjects of bargaining, making unilateral changes, and surveilling workers engaged in protected concerted union activity.

UAW International President Shawn Fain recently denounced the retaliatory layoffs, saying that CAMBA IT Workers' are fighting the same fight that Unions are up against across the United States: "CAMBA IT Workers who organized and are being threatened to lose their job, and it's not because the company doesn't have money, it's not because they can't afford it. It's because [CAMBA] just don't want them to have a union, they don't want them to have a say in their workplace and have a little bit of dignity." "We cannot let this happen," said UAW 9A Regional Director Brandon Mancilla. "Not in New York City, not in a Union town."

On Tuesday January 20 at 1PM, elected officials, UAW Region 9A, and community members are rallying at Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza to demand that the City hold CAMBA accountable. An injury to one is an injury to all.