Showing posts with label Workers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Workers. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Walmart Worker Fired After Speaking at Chinatown Action
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Fired After Speaking at Chinatown Action  OUR Walmart activist and Walmart associate Girshriela Green speaks at the March Against Walmart in L.A.'s Chinatown on June 30, 2012.
On June 30th, thousands gathered in L.A.'s Chinatown for the largest march against Walmart in the history of the United States. Girshriela Green, a worker at the Crenshaw Walmart and OUR Walmart activist, called on Walmart a to improve working conditions and to respect its workers. Just 6 days later Girshriela was fired. Girshriela and other outspoken workers are getting bullied and silenced on a daily basis.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR AN ACTION OF SUPPORT FOR GIRSHRIELA AND HER CO-WORKERS!Wear plain, street clothes, No affiliate shirts of logo apparel. Download the flyer here. WHEN: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 at 9:30AM WHERE: Krispy Kreme across from the Crenshaw Walmart, 4034 Crenshaw Blvd, LA 90008 For more information, contact Lucy at 424-625-6037. |
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Today in Labor History
April 24 The International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Philadelphia journalist whom many believed was on death row because he was an outspoken African-American - 1999
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Today in Labor History
April 10
Birth date of Frances Perkins, named Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office - 1880
133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa., near Chester. Fifty-five of the dead were never identified - 1917
Birth of Dolores Huerta, a co-founder, with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers - 1930
Dancers from the Lusty Lady Club in San Francisco’s North Beach ratify their first-ever union contract by a vote of 57-15, having won representaion by SEIU Local 790 the previous summer. The club later became a worker-owned cooperative - 1997
Tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrate in 100 U.S. cities in a national day of action billed as a campaign for immigrants’ dignity. Some 200,000 gathered in Washington, D.C. - 2006
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Birth date of Frances Perkins, named Secretary of Labor under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, becoming the first woman to hold a cabinet-level office - 1880
133 people, mostly women and girls, are killed when an explosion in the loading room tears apart the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pa., near Chester. Fifty-five of the dead were never identified - 1917
Birth of Dolores Huerta, a co-founder, with Cesar Chavez, of the United Farm Workers - 1930
Dancers from the Lusty Lady Club in San Francisco’s North Beach ratify their first-ever union contract by a vote of 57-15, having won representaion by SEIU Local 790 the previous summer. The club later became a worker-owned cooperative - 1997
Tens of thousands of immigrants demonstrate in 100 U.S. cities in a national day of action billed as a campaign for immigrants’ dignity. Some 200,000 gathered in Washington, D.C. - 2006
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Friday, April 06, 2012
Today in Labor History
April 06
The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City’s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712
Birth of Rose Schneiderman, prominent member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, an active participant in the Uprising of the 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York City led by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in 1909, and famous for an angry speech about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: “Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers…Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement” - 1882
[Triangle: The Fire that Changed America: This excellent book vividly recounts the tragic fire but also tells us of life in the city during the early 1900s and brings us into the stories of the young women who lost their lives in the blaze. The author tells of their struggles against oppressive, inhumane conditions and poverty-level wages -- work lives not that different from many of today’s immigrant workers. In the UCS bookstore now.]
A sympathy strike by Chicago Teamsters in support of clothing workers leads to daily clashes between strikebreakers and armed police against hundreds and sometimes thousands of striking workers and their supporters. By the time the fight ended after 103 days, 21 people had been killed and 416 injured - 1905
What was to become a two-month strike by minor league umpires begins, largely over money: $5,500 to $15,000 for a season running 142 games. The strike ended with a slight improvement in pay - 2006
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
The first slave revolt in the U.S. occurs at a slave market in New York City’s Wall Street area. Twenty-one blacks were executed for killing nine whites. The city responded by strengthening its slave codes - 1712
Birth of Rose Schneiderman, prominent member of the New York Women's Trade Union League, an active participant in the Uprising of the 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York City led by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in 1909, and famous for an angry speech about the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire: “Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my sister workers…Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement” - 1882
[Triangle: The Fire that Changed America: This excellent book vividly recounts the tragic fire but also tells us of life in the city during the early 1900s and brings us into the stories of the young women who lost their lives in the blaze. The author tells of their struggles against oppressive, inhumane conditions and poverty-level wages -- work lives not that different from many of today’s immigrant workers. In the UCS bookstore now.]A sympathy strike by Chicago Teamsters in support of clothing workers leads to daily clashes between strikebreakers and armed police against hundreds and sometimes thousands of striking workers and their supporters. By the time the fight ended after 103 days, 21 people had been killed and 416 injured - 1905
What was to become a two-month strike by minor league umpires begins, largely over money: $5,500 to $15,000 for a season running 142 games. The strike ended with a slight improvement in pay - 2006
SOURCE: Union Communications Services, Inc.
Monday, April 02, 2012
Union Rally Pomona College
By Mike Hall
This afternoon on César Chávez day, Pomona College (Calif.) students, workers and union and community activists are taking to the streets in a unique Dining Hall in the Streets action. The event will support the 16 immigrant workers the college fired in December from their long-held dining hall jobs as they were trying to form a union with UNITE HERE Local 11. Following a march from a local park to the college campus, supporters will serve up a barbeque.
Workers and their supporters will call on Pomona College to sign a neutrality pledge to allow Pomona dining workers to decide among themselves whether they want a union, in an atmosphere free from threats and intimidation. Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor says:
Pomona College trustees and administrators turned this peaceful liberal arts campus into a battleground like Arizona or Alabama. Now the administration must take steps to repair the damage they caused and restore peace.
Some of the immigrant workers had been working at the college for more than 20 years before they were fired. The school says it was for not having proper work documents. The demand for documentation was not brought on by a federal agency. Instead, Pomona launched the internal audit itself, even though the school said the workers had been properly verified at the time of hiring.
In this video from JuticeatPomona.org, Dr. Peter Dreier, an Occidental College professor, says Pomona College has “joined in the wave of anti-immigrant hysteria.”
Additional photos can be viewed here.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Questions, Questions and more Questions?
Since this was the first union election won in almost forty years, what happens next is the most asked question the past few days in the pressroom. After speaking with Ronnie yesterday, and asking him where workers can get some answers, Ronnie asked that I direct online users to his blog, Save Our Trade, and to the links. Note, the blog is currently down so the link could not be added at this moment.
Another user sent in the following link, Union Facts, which may answer some of the questions the men and women of the pressrooms are seeking.
How will information filter down to the men and women that do not use the Internet or do not own a computer at home?
Currently there are more questions than answers, and hopefully this will change over the next few days and weeks ahead.
Another user sent in the following link, Union Facts, which may answer some of the questions the men and women of the pressrooms are seeking.
How will information filter down to the men and women that do not use the Internet or do not own a computer at home?
Currently there are more questions than answers, and hopefully this will change over the next few days and weeks ahead.
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