Safety Violations at Oracle HQ
Date: 11 Jul 93 14:52 PDT
Message-ID: <1607100011_at_igc.apc.org>
From: Worklife Education Resource Center <worklife> Subject: Safety Violations at Oracle HQ
NUMEROUS HEALTH & SAFETY VIOLATIONS CITED AT ORACLE On July 6th, Justice for Janitors received notification from CalOSHA that Service by Medallion had been investigated and found in violation of numerous health and safety regulations at the Oracle buildings. Medallion was found in violation of seven of the eight complaints filed, and fined. A complete copy of the letter is attached below.
WHY DOES ORACLE CONTINUE TO DEFEND LAWLESSNESS? Oracle has sent memos to all of its employees at Oracle World Headquarters reassuring that Justice for Janitors' allegations are misleading and no abuses are taking place at Medallion. CalOSHA seems to disagree. The National Labor Relations Board seems to disagree. The United States Department of Labor has found the abuses worth investigating.
WHY DOES ORACLE BLOCK INFORMATION?
Justice for Janitors has requested that Oracle send out
documentation of these state and federal cases through the same
mechanism used to circulate their own denials of the allegations -
Oracle has ignored this request. On July 2nd, security at Oracle
physically attacked Justice for Janitors protesters after they
tried to pass leaflets to Oracle employees.
WHY IS ORACLE FIGHTING SO VICIOUSLY OVER PENNIES? It would cost Oracle about 3/4 of 1/100th of 1% of their annual revenues for the roughly two dozen janitors who clean Oracle's buildings to receive full health benefits for their families and have their wages increased TO THE POVERTY LEVEL. This is about a 1% increase in the annual rent. Oracle might not even have to pay all of these crumbs, as the property manager, William Wilson, holds the janitorial contract. Being the sole tenant, Oracle has tremendous influence over William Wilson. Why is Oracle so det ermined to see janitors ground into poverty?
WRITE AND ASK:
James Abrahamson, Chairman of the Board
Oracle World Headquarters
500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065
jabraham_at_oracle.com
JUSTICE FOR JANITORS - c/o SEIU Local 1877 186 E. Gish Rd, 2nd Floor, San Jose, CA 95112
(408) 452-8515 * worklife_at_igc.apc.org
State of California Pete Wilson, Governor ================================================================Department of Industrial Relations
DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH 1390 Market St., Room 718
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 557-1677
ATSS 8-597-1677 June 25, 1993
Jennie Roitman
186 E. Gish Road, 2nd Floor
San Jose, CA 95112
Dear Mr. (sic) Roitman:
In response to the complaint you filed with this office on May 21, 1993, Richard Fazlollahi, Compliance Safety Engineer conducted a wall-to-wall inspection of Service by Medallion located at Orele (sic) pkw (sic) Redwood Shores on June 8, 1993.
In your complaint, you mentioned:
- No gloves
- No understandable labels on chemicals
- No training on hazardous chemicals
- No MSDS
- No ladders for cleaning high areas
- Unsafe wiring for vacuum cleaner
- Heavy trash, and no training for safe lifting
- No eye wash
The following was reported:
Item 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8. The violation (sic) of Safety
Order were noted and the employer cited accordingly.
5) The employer has MSDS, however, he did not train the
employees and they cannot read English.
7) The employer had train (sic) the employee (sic) for
lifting trash.
Thank you for your interest in safety and health in workplaces.
Sincerely,
George Mukai
District Manager
Received on Sun Jul 11 1993 - 23:52:00 CEST