Some Oakland airport janitors made over $200,000 in a year. 📰 The revelation came after accusations that managers were steering the most lucrative overtime shifts to favored workers, and that some employees were paying kickbacks to get them. 📰 A report prepared a Port of Oakland consultant upheld the favoritism allegation, but did not find credible evidence of kickbacks. 📰 It also found that the airport lacked a written procedure for allocating overtime shifts. 📰 Airport janitors were paid over $2 million in overtime annually for three straight years. 📰 The janitors' union, SEIU Local 1021, filed a grievance requesting compensation for the overlooked janitors and asking for the removal of the supervisors responsible. 📰 The airport says it i s facing a $47 million budget deficit. oaklandreport.news/x/h-some-…

Entire block of cars bipped and windows broken outside West Oakland elementary school. 📰 A teacher posted a video documenting an entire block of parked cars with windows broken and items stolen near an elementary school. 📰 "This is the stuff that they do. They harm people's property, they do stuff to people's property...I'm a teacher; to see this type of stuff in my community, it's crazy... West Oakland, we gotta do better." she says. 📰 The woman later announced that she is organizing a "community walk against bipping, vandalism and violence" on Sunday, Oct. 25, 11:00 a.m. in West Oakland near 1700 Market Street. oaklandreport.news/x/h-west-…

City council could get raises of up to $108,000 more per year (Oakland’s Measure EE). Oakland already pays its council more per resident than other big cities. The Yes on EE campaign doesn't mention this. oaklandreport.org/p/city-cou…