[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] LEAFLET BIG Ys FOR JUSTICE @ SMITHFIELD 4/19

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Saturday April 19

 

LEAFLET BIG Ys FOR JUSTICE @ SMITHFIELD

 

Chicopee store (650 Memorial Drive, near MassPike exit ): 1-2pm; contact
Jon, (413) 827-0301, HYPERLINK "mailto:wmjwj at wmjwj.org"wmjwj at wmjwj.org, for
more details for the Chicopee Team, or to do another store.

 

Amherst store (175 University Drive): Noon-1pm;

 

Northampton store (136 North King Street - Rt. 5) &/or downtown intersection
(Main & Pleasant & King) - team will decide: 1:30-2:30pm;

 

contact Rose, (413) 320-2028, [or (413) 827-0301, HYPERLINK
"mailto:wmjwj at wmjwj.org"wmjwj at wmjwj.org] for more details for the
Amherst/Northampton Team.

 

THE BIG WHY:

 

Smithfield Foods has created an environment of intimidation, racial tension,
violence, and fear of deportation for workers who want a voice on the job.

 

Poverty wages, brutal line speeds and other working conditions, crippling
injuries, a dictatorship at work - 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.

 

More info at HYPERLINK
"http://www.smithfieldjustice.com"www.smithfieldjustice.com.

 

You can help them exercise their right to a union. 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, HYPERLINK "mailto:wmjwj at wmjwj.org"wmjwj at wmjwj.org.

 

And you can ask Big Y to stop selling Tar Heel pork at HYPERLINK
"https://www.bigy.com/contact/index.php"https://www.bigy.com/contact/index.p
hp!  Please let us know if you get a reply from Big Y.

 

 

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