The advocacy group Protect National Park Employees would like to thank for your continued support. It is important to understand that no money needs to be donated to this petition for it to be successful.  Just sharing it and having your friends sign is momentum enough.  Also feel free to use the "I stand with National Park Employees" Facebook frame and add #protectyosemiteresidents #protectnationalparkemployees #communityinnationalparks #homeisyosemite #covid19

We are in unprecedented times due to COVID-19. In the middle of a pandemic the employees, of Aramark, which is corporation that leases the park, have been given a two-week notice to leave a place that many of them have called home for more than 10 years. 

Within this year-round tourist destination there is also community members who live in the park and call it their year-around home.  These employees holding the fabric of the community together are paid low wages to create high profit for the company who runs it.

National Park Employee Protections:

1)      All employees living in Yosemite National Park be allowed to live in the park until the mandatory stay at home regulations are lifted. 

2)      All employees being asked to vacate their home residence be given a 60-day notice with date of delivery as the day of notice.  This means 60-days from mail delivery date to vacate housing.

3)      An appeal process with up to a 60-day extension will be given to employees who will become homeless or are suffering from illness that makes moving difficult.  This means up to 120-days for those employees must vacate housing.

4)      Rent will be suspended for all employees living within housing, who have lost their job due to COVID-19.

5)      Employees, who have lost a job due to COVID-19, working for Aramark, will be given a severance package at a sliding scale based on the years they worked for the company.

Shaun King said, “I am not a voice for the voiceless, I am a platform for the unheard.”