Showdown at Castlewood!

Workers and supporters crash the biggest tournament of the year at Castlewood Country Club, an elite golf club in Pleasanton, CA that has kept its employees locked out for sixteen months. What do golfers do when they get locked out of their own tournament?

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• labor
• union
• golfer
• lockout
• strike
• picket
• civil disobedience

[jasonmunning]

The golfers most certainly do have involvement in how the club is run -- they are the paying members! Castlewood thinks they can lower the standard of living/working in order to make a few extra bucks. They are acting shamefully and all members and residents who allow this to happen in their community are culpable!

[freedomoranje]

I wouldn't hire any of these idiots for anything. Any of the former workers not working elsewhere aren't worth much. Union thugs.

[joeyace1410]

dont understand why these union people wont leave castlewood and find another job. explain to me why you protest the golfers, my parents being a couple of them, who most have no involvement in how castlewood is run. the new people at the grill and at the club are great. they are nice and sincere and quite frankly work probably harder. stop blaming castlewood for YOUR problems and get back to work. you have no one to blame but yourself if you dont work

[advantedgewalt1]

This is the a huge misrepresentation of the facts. The people who were doing this "protest" have never worked for Castlewood. None of them. All of the people The club expects its emplyoees to do as all of us do - pay a portion of their medical insurance. The food servers are paid standard wages, yet are tipped very generously in cash and (I suspect) are not paying taxes on that tip money. The failure to resolve this is on the union who does not care about the workers, only it's power over them.

[yygott]

When workers are locked out of their jobs for sixteen months, they mobilize, they picket, and they gather community support. When golfer-owners are locked out of their country club for two hours, what do they do? Destroy property, commit assault, and yell racist and xenophobic rants at the workers. Interesting to see how the two groups react differently.

[metalmilitiaman8]

Why are the golfers the issue? the issue is with the management of the club, the golfers have no power what so ever unless they are members to the club and even then they still have none. why punish the golfers by being disrespectful to them and ruining theyre day of golfing which they PAID FOR WITH THEIR JOBS because youre upset that you lost yours? if you want to talk about class maybe you should look it up in the dictionary because you wont find any in the mirror..

[jeantepper]

It's obscene for these golfers to expect people to serve and clean up after them for low pay without having health care for their kids. It's great to see people in the community rallying to stand up with the workers against this arrogance.

[tierralinda05]

Classy establishment. I am embarrassed for those golfers.

[MrDixicup]

16 months is a long time to be outside protesting. If I was one of those golfers flipping people off, I'd be pretty ashamed of myself for acting like a school yard bully. Seems like the union has a right to be mad, i'd be out there to if all of a sudden my company wanted to take away my benefits for no reason. Keep up the fight.  You have more friends around castlewood than you think.

[jkm08103]

The vandalism at 2:13 was done by Castlewood and their members, not protesters. They were trying to create a pathway for golf carts so that they may continue playing their game.