[Antiracism] [Workers' Rights] Canceled Event; Updated Calendar 3/4-14

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Wednesday March 4 CANCELED - WILL BE RESCHEDULED 

"CONTINUOUS BARGAINING" A Union Response to Workplace Change 

Info: Dale Melcher, 545-6166, dmelcher at lrrc.umass.edu. 

 

Wednesday March 4

RALLY AGAINST GOVERNOR'S CUTS TO SENIOR HEALTH CARE

11am, State House, Boston. Info: Mass Senior Action Council, 455-3829 or
543-2334.

 

Wednesday March 4

MASSACHUSETTS LABOR DEPT: LABOR STANDARDS FORUM, OFFICE HOURS, & TOURS

The Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD) is sending
labor officials from the various agencies under the Department of Labor to
hold open office hours in Springfield, tour area businesses and
institutions, and hold a "Labor Standards Forum" in the evening at Holyoke
Community College. Director of the Department of Labor George Noel will be
accompanied by Department of Industrial Accidents Commissioner Paul Buckley,
Division of Occupational Safety Commissioner Laura Marlin, Division of
Apprentice Training Director David Wallace, and Division of Labor Relations
Director Michael Byrnes. Info: Alex Goldstein, 617-626-7108,
Alex.Goldstein at state.ma.us. Schedule (subject to revision): 

            9-10am, State Office Building Lobby, 436 Dwight St, Springfield.
Director of Labor Noel kicks off the day and introduces his team of
commissioners and officials, as well as introduces key initiatives and the
day's events. 

10am-3pm: Information Fair and Office Hours. Department of Labor staff at
tables in lobby to distribute information, answer constituent questions, and
discuss agency initiatives. 

Noon-4:30pm: Officials tour Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts;
registered apprentice programs (1:30-3pm: IBEW Local 7, 185 Industrial Ave,
Springfield; 3:15-4:30pm: Sheet Metal Workers Local 63, 32 Stevens St,
Springfield); Simmons Bedding Co., Agawam; ATC Associates Inc.; and
Hampshire County House of Correction. 

6-8pm: EOLWD's Labor Standards Public Forum, Holyoke Community College, 303
Homestead Ave, Holyoke. Director Noel and Department of Labor Commissioners
hold a public forum to discuss agency roles, responsibilities, and goals.
They will also take questions and comments from attendees.

 

Wednesday March 4

JOINT TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE PUBLIC HEARING ON GOVERNOR'S TRANSPORTATION &
ECONOMIC SECURITY BILL

4pm, Scibelli Hall, Springfield Technical Community College, 1 Armory
Square, Springfield. Governor Patrick will attend. To learn more about the
legislation, please visit www.mass.gov/youmovemassachusetts/.   

 

Wednesday March 4

AVI GREEN ON VOTING REFORM

7pm, Agawam Library, 750 Cooper St, Agawam. The public is invited to hear
Avi Green, Executive Director of MassVOTE, 

address issues such as Early Voting, Mail-in Voting, Internet Voting,
Week-end Voting, Same Day Registration, and Compulsory Voting, at the Agawam
Democratic Town Committee meeting. Founded in 1999, Boston-based MassVOTE is
a non-partisan voting rights organization that works with community-based
non-profit organizations to increase voter education and turnout across
Massachusetts. MassVOTE works to eliminate barriers and encourage voting
especially among communities of color, language minorities, low income
communities, youth, new American citizens, and the disabled. Green is an
experienced organizer, campaign manager, and policy analyst. Info: Corinne
M. Wingard, corinnemarie at comcast.net.

 

Thursday March 5

2009 WMJwJ MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

7-9pm, Massachusetts Nurses Association Conference Room, second floor, room
234 &/or 236, Potpourri Plaza, 243
<http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=243+King+St,+Northampton,+MA%3e>  King
St, Northampton,, opposite Stop & Shop. Western Massachusetts Jobs with
Justice traditionally celebrates International Workers Day. The event is
also a fundraiser for WMJwJ. There are suggested donation ticket prices, but
no one is turned away for lack of funds. Lately we've produced "Voices of
Working People's History" - readings, music, and slides that tell the
origins of International Workers Day in the US in the 1880s and carry its
themes up to the present.

            However, this year we will build the event around a visit by
Stewart Acuff. Stu is Special Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO,
National Jobs with Justice Board Member, former AFL-CIO Organizing Director,
former Service Employees International Union (Texas, Georgia) and Central
Labor Council (Atlanta) officer, and a former community organizer in
Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, and New Hampshire for organizations affiliated
with ACORN and Citizen Action. He is a stirring speaker (you
<http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=Stewart+Acuff&aq=f
>  can watch many of his speeches at YouTube) and will focus us on an
economic recovery that puts Main Street before Wall Street, passes the
Employee Free Choice Act and restores workers' right to organize, ensures
health care for all, creates good green jobs, and holds bailed out
corporations accountable to the people.

            The program will still include lots of music. But this year the
idea is to have the singers who participate choose their songs on those
issues (and sell their CDs). Would you like to be in the program? Can you
recommend someone? Would you work on a committee (Organizing [primarily the
Chairs of the other, work committees]; Program; Publicity; Bake Sale; Day-of
Volunteers)? Info: 827-0301, wmjwj at wmjwj.org. 

 

Thursday March 5 (First Thursday)

MASS CITIZENS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY HAMPDEN COUNTY CHAPTER

7-8:30pm, Unitarian Society, 245 Porter Lake Drive, Springfield (736-2324).
Reports on "Training for the Long Run" NCADP 2009 Annual Conference; Elms
College program last November; plans for Sacco Vanzetti 2009 - annual
commemoration of the August 23, 1927 execution of Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo
Vanzetti at Bishop Marshall Center, St Michael's Cathedral, Elliott St off
State St, Springfield, on August 23 at 5-7:30pm. May not have a meeting in
April. Info: 567-3451, cajowl66 at aol.com. 

 

Friday March 6

MARCH TO PROTECT OUR HOMES & FAMILIES!

Hartford CT: 4pm, Assemble near Memorial Arch, Ford & Trinity Sts; March to
Webster Bank, Connecticut Bank & Trust, and Bank of America to announce
working people's demands; Rally outside the Bank of America. BAIL OUT THE
PEOPLE NOT THE BANKS:

For an immediate moratorium on all foreclosures and evictions.

For an end to the system that protects bankers and corporations while
working people suffer. Info: People's Bailout Connecticut,
peoplesbailoutct at yahoo.com, www.peoplesbailoutct.wordpress.com. 

 

Saturday March 7

WESTERN MASS SINGLE PAYER NETWORK WINTER MEETING

9:30-11:30am, Lathrop Village Community Room, 1 Shallow Brook Drive, off
Bridge Rd, Northampton. A nonpartisan, nonprofit coalition of advocates
committed to achieving a universal single payer health care system.
Organizational Goals:  to increase visibility of universal single payer
health care across western Massachusetts; to strengthen the universal single
payer movement through increasing numbers of people familiar with and
committed to a single payer health care system; and to work in concert with
eastern Massachusetts single payer groups, as well as other groups
throughout the country who share the single payer mission. Info:
wmspn at wmjwj.org.

 

Saturday March 7 (First & Third Saturday of each month)

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS AT WORK!

Noon-4pm, ADP Workers Center/Casa Obrera, 130 Union St, Springfield.
Registration required. Comprehensive know your rights training. Also serves
as orientations that are mandatory for people who want to join the Workers
Center. The ADP Worker Center has a number of programs and benefits for
members, including a food co-op, ESOL classes, democracy school, leadership
training, and a legal clinic. Info, to register: William Cano, 739-7233,
william at a-dp.org.

 

Monday March 9

TELL NORTHERN BERKSHIRE HEALTHCARE TO PUT PATIENTS & RESIDENTS FIRST!

4pm, Freeman Park - at the intersection of Hospital Ave & Eagle Street,
across from North Adams Hospital, North Adams. North Berkshire Healthcare
(NBH) owns North Adams Regional Hospital, which is unionized, and Sweet
Brook Nursing Home, where workers are organizing with Service Employees
Local 1199. At Sweet Brook, NBH has decided to launch a financially costly
campaign involving attorneys and consultants to fight the caregivers' union
drive. Meanwhile, to help the Hospital through tough times, caregivers there
made a generous proposal to management to temporarily reduce benefits.
Instead, hospital management rejected the proposal, and is slashing services
and staff. Join us as we stand together in telling NBH to put patients and
residents first! Info: (617) 284-1135, chris.spiegel at 1199.org.  

 

Thursday March 12

            WORKERS' RIGHTS BOARD HEARING: YWCA WORKERS TESTIFY!

            3-5pm, City Hall Room 220, 36 Court St, Springfield. Watch for
separate announcement! Info: 827-0301 x1, wmjwj at wmjwj.org.

 

Friday March 13 (Second Friday)

STREET HEAT - THE AFL-CIO MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE

9:30-11am, AFL-CIO Hall, 640 Page Blvd, near corner of Osborne Ter, across
the street from the old Westinghouse, Springfield. This meeting will focus
on the campaign to win the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act,
including meetings with Congressmen and Sen. Kerry. Also on the agenda: the
YWCA; Postal job loss; Bank of America; Your Organizing! Community and labor
activists are urged to attend. Info; send agenda items to: Jon Weissman,
732-7970, street_heat at pvaflcio.org.

 

Saturday March 14

WILD IN THE WINTER WEST

8:30am-1:30pm, Gordon Hall, 418 N Pleasant St, Amherst. Info: Emily Hardt,
617-426-0520, emily at wildlabor.org. The Women <http://www.wildlabor.org/> 's
Institute for Leadership Development and the UMass
<http://www.umass.edu/lrrc/laborextension/>  Amherst Labor Extension Program
invites women activists to an exciting workshop on understanding the causes
and impact of the economic crisis. Plus: WILD Women Live! - interviews with
inspiring women who lead their unions and community organizations. Followed
by lunch and conversation with other labor movement women. $20 Registration
fee; childcare reimbursement available. For more information & to register
(deadline March 12): 545-6166, dmelcher at lrrc.umass.edu. 

 

Saturday March 14 (Second Saturday)

            SPRINGFIELD HEALTH DISPARITIES PROJECT

            9:30am, Tapestry Health, 365 Bay St, Springfield. Addressing
existing disparities in health care and outcomes, and the underlying racism,
poverty, and homelessness. Info: Betty Agin, 627-4028, betagi7 at verizon.net. 

 

 

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