The Organizing
Committee
To Stop Exploitation
June 24, 2013
Mr. Richie Rhodes
ICA Systems Operations Manager
1719 Apex Rd, Unit B, Sarasota, FL 34240
Dear Mr Rhodes,
We previously asked for your kind intervention and thank you
for any efforts you may have made on our behalf. Enclosed please find a copy of
our letter of June 24th to Mr. Howard that responds to his
confiscation of our literature package during the week of June 6th.
Please join us in our effort to defuse this troubling situation.
Please note we offered to temporarily settle for less than
the pay to which we are entitled in return for prompt reconciliation. If
accepted, this is a limited and temporary concession. For ISS to qualify, ICA
must agree that under future FDOT blanket agreements with ICA the minimum pay
to bridge tenders will be defined as equal to or greater than the currently
published mean pay for our job description in Florida according to the US Bureau
of Labor Statistics and this protection will be regardless of future
subcontractor chosen by ICA.
Unfortunately we must now go on record for bringing the
disparity, suspected profiteering and opportunist activity of your
subcontractor to the formal attention of ICA. We ask ICA to take appropriate
action to investigate and correct the problems with ISS and to be proactive in
preventing any such future abuse.
We noticed in your blanket Agreement with the FDOT that ICA
indemnifies them. Please clearly confirm and define our individual
indemnification against personal civil liability stemming from bridge-related
events caused by us or occurring while we are on the job.
You know that at each step along the way we have disclosed
our next and will continue to do so in an effort to avoid avoidable action. A
summary and letters to the bridge tenders are published at www.bestbridge.blogspot.com and
we invite you to visit. Please
help us avoid further escalation and polarization. We look forward to your
response.
Sincerely ,
The Organizing Committee
cc. Mr. Jim Howard, ISS Facility Services
ENCLS. Copy of 6/23/13 letter to Mr. Howard
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