As Chevron Profits Shatter a 127 Year Record, Alternate Earnings Report Shows Real Cost

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.chevronwontyoujoinus.org/spoils-of-oil-10262006/

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Lynda Tran, 202-907-1172

With polls showing majority of Americans dissatisfied with direction of the country…
As Chevron Profits Shatter a 127 Year Record,
Alternate Earnings Report Shows Real Cost of “Spoils of Oil” for Americans
Growing strike by 1,700 janitors shining national spotlight on Houston as corporations failing to do right by families living in poverty

HOUSTON—As Chevron Corps (CVX) third quarter profits soared to $5 billion, the strike by 5,300 Houston janitors has intensified and could spread to buildings in other cities as earlier as next week. SEIU, Spoils of Oil: The High Cost of Chevron’s Record Earnings,” an alternative earnings report to spotlight Houston’s extremes of wealth and poverty and the debate over big corporations’ responsibility for workers like Ercilia Sandoval, a striking janitor without health insurance who is battling breast cancer.

Houston janitors like Ercilia Sandoval have been on strike since October 23. Ercilia is paid roughly $20 a day and receives no health insurance. Though she has been diagnosed with breast cancer, she is a leader of the janitors’ struggle.

Janitors, community and religious leaders have waged a public campaign to persuade Chevron to instruct their contractors to meet the Houston janitors’ proposal of $8.50 per hour, employer-paid health insurance, and more working hours as well as to respect their workers’ rights and bargain in good faith with the union as the law requires.

FULL story at link.

[Old and In the Way]

1. What would $2,000,000,000,000.00 have bought us in renewable energy?

That's what we pissed away (along with 2830 soldiers and our international reputation) in Iraq.