[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] Urgent Reminders 6/28; 7/1

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

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Saturday June 28

      LEAFLET YWCA FUNDRAISER

      7pm, Symphony Hall, Court Square at Columbus Avenue, Springfield. UAW
Local 2322 members of the YWCA of Western Massachusetts and their supporters
will conduct informational leafleting at the YWCA's 140th Anniversary
Celebration. Please join us! This is being done to inform the public on the
status of contract negotiations in which YWCA management has offered zero
wage increases claiming they are unable to afford raises.  But an audit
conducted by the UAW has shown they have approximately a $300,000 "surplus"
so far this fiscal year. (Background info here
<http://www.somethingaboutmaryjohnson.com/> .) Info: Ron Patenaude,
President UAW Local 2322, uaw2322 at uaw2322.org, 534-7600, cell 413-427-3785. 

 

Tuesday July 1

     WORKERS' RIGHTS COMMITTEE

     7-8:30pm, Potpourri Plaza Conference Room, room 234 &/or 236, second
floor, 243 King St, Northampton (opposite Stop & Shop). The Workers' Rights
Committee mobilizes Western Mass folks to enforce workers' rights.

Top of the agenda: 

Cooley Dickinson Hospital settles contract with VNA Nurses after solidarity
picket line June 19!

Organizing a Workers' Rights Board Hearing for Franklin Medical Center
Nurses on July 10

Working with the Northampton Living Wage Committee

Supporting the Amherst Lunch Ladies
<http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/97042/> 

Rest of the agenda 

- local campaigns and organizing such as: 

Mass Nurses Assn contract struggles at Mercy Hospital and Cooley Dickinson
Hospital

United Auto Workers contract struggle at YWCA

Working with Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO Street Heat

- regional and national campaigns and organizing such as: 

Million Member Mobilization <http://www.jwj.org/efca.html>  for the Employee
Free Choice Act

National Week of Action for Health Care July 14-20 POSTPONED ==> Medicare
Birthday Actions July 30

IBEW & CWA/IUE contract struggle at Verizon
<http://www.jwj.org/campaigns/corporate/vzw.html>  and organizing at Comcast
<http://www.comcastwatch.com/workplace/ibew-organizing-comcast-workers-in-ma
ssachusetts.html> 

Signal International <http://www.massjwj.net/node/2340>  workers

Toyota <http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/brian-howard-nouawcom.html>
Owners for Fairness

Latest on Smithfield Foods Campaign <http://www.smithfieldjustice.com/> 

Info: 827-0301, wmjwj at wmjwj.org. 

 

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