[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] LEAFLET BIG Ys FOR JUSTICE @ SMITHFIELD

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Saturday April 19
	LEAFLET BIG Ys FOR JUSTICE @ SMITHFIELD
	Noonish depending on location. Sign up to participate and pick a
store: 827-0301, wmjwj at wmjwj.org. 

	Poverty wages, brutal conditions, crippling injuries - 5,500 workers
in Tar Heel, North Carolina, face this every day at the world's largest hog
processing plant. They are trying to correct it by forming a union. 

	Their employer's response got it cited by Human Rights Watch for
violating international human rights standards and cited by the National
Labor Relations Board and US Court of Appeals for labor law violations.
Smithfield Foods has created an environment of intimidation, racial tension,
violence, and fear of deportation for workers who want a voice on the job.

	You can help them exercise their right to a union. (See
www.smithfieldjustice.com.) 

	The local Justice @ Smithfield committee is asking Big Y to stop
selling Tar Heel pork (USDA establishment codes: 18079 and [bacon] 79-C). 

	Stop & Shop, Atkins Farms Country Market (Amherst), State Street
Fruit Store and Delicatessen (Northampton), Coopers Corner (Florence), and
US Foods at Westover Job Corps (Chicopee) are not offering Tar Heel pork.
The Springfield City Council and Mayor have urged all area stores to join
in. State Rep. Ben Swan has personally appealed to Big Y. But when a
delegation of religious, community, labor, educational, and student leaders
tried to see Big Y's owners, they were kicked out of the Springfield
headquarters. So we're leafleting Big Y customers. 

Join us! Info: 827-0301, wmjwj at wmjwj.org. 


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