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  • Subject: [Internationalist] UNC Housekeepers need your support!
  • Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:25:04 -0400

(forwarded from student group on campus)


Housekeeper Petition Delivery
When: Friday at Noon
Where: The Steps of South Building

This Friday, a group of UNC housekeepers will be delivering a petition
to
Chancellor Thorp at 12pm. We are asking students and community members
to
come to the steps of South Building at noon and show their support!
The
petition is described in the press release below. Housekeepers will
speak
about their personal experiences at the delivery.

When housekeepers stand up for better treatment on the job, they often
face
retaliation, sometimes to the point of loosing their jobs. The more
students and supporters are at South Building, the less likely this
kind of
retaliation will occur.

Housekeepers deserve respect and dignity.

UNC Housekeepers to Deliver Petition to Chancellor Thorp Demanding that
the
Assistant Director of Housekeeping Services, Tonya Sell be Reassigned

On Friday, September 2, at 12pm UNC housekeepers, accompanied by
students,
faculty, and community members, will deliver a petition to Chancellor
Thorp
at South Building on the campus of UNC Chapel Hill. The petition
demands
that the Assistant Director of Housekeeping Services, Tonya Sell, be
reassigned. The controversy around Tonya Sell became public during
Fall of
2010 when she instated what is known as the no sit-down policy. About
eight housekeepers filed a group grievance citing that Tonya Sell
created a
hostile work environment in the UNC housekeeping department, but Human
Resources denied the grievance. Housekeepers continually name Tonya
Sell as a significant aggressor,
responsible for perpetuating an abusive and unfair work environment at
the
University. Odessa Davis, a housekeeper under the supervision of Tonya
Sell, says “Tonya Sell is not cut out to be our director. She doesn’t
respect housekeepers and hardly treats us like human beings.”
Housekeepers list several other complaints in the petition regarding
Ms.
Sell’s problematic leadership, including:

Lack of professionalism, demonstrated by not showing up for meetings
that
she schedules with employees
Threatening employees
Verbal abuse
Forging employees’ signatures
Housekeepers are organizing with the hope that Ms. Sell will be
reassigned
to a more appropriate job where she can no longer harass and intimidate
other University employees and engage in inappropriate administrative
practices. Other community and student groups have endorsed the
petition
including Black Workers for Justice, Student Action with Workers, SEANC
District 25, UE 150, Chapel Hill/Carrboro NAACP, Triangle Branch of
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Chapel Hill
Human Rights Center. Laurel Ashton, a leader of the student group
Student
Action with Workers adds, “The fact that Tonya Sell has remained a
supervisor, despite such serious allegations raised throughout the
Housekeeping Department, illustrates the greater problem that
Chancellor
Thorp, Carolyn Elfland, and other University administrators do not take
responsibility for creating a safe and fair work environment for UNC
housekeepers.”

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