. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen of the board, my name is [inaudible] aluciano, and also with me are some of my co-workers of at&t ballpark, i've worked concessions at the giants games since 1976. in 1993, volume servers which is now known as center plate took over the concessions from harry and stephen. we all went to the union but we didn't have job security in our contract language. in order to keep our jobs, we all had to agree to take a $4 an hour wage cut. it's taken 20 years for us to get back to that rate that we had there before. we want to make sure that the situation never happens again by winning job security language in this contract. the workers have been loyal to the giants and the company and we want them to be loyal to us. please support us in the struggle by signing the pledge to boycott center plate until we get a fair contract. thank you. >> next speaker. >> hello, good afternoon. thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak. my name's patricia ramirez and i'm -- i worked as a cook for center plate for 14 years. i've been working really hard to win a f