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<p class=MsoPlainText><u>Please forward widely. Thanks!<o:p></o:p></u></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Saturday June 28<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> LEAFLET YWCA FUNDRAISER<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> 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. (<a
href="http://www.somethingaboutmaryjohnson.com/">Background info here</a>.) Info:
Ron Patenaude, President UAW Local 2322, <a href="mailto:uaw2322@uaw2322.org">uaw2322@uaw2322.org</a>,
534-7600, cell 413-427-3785. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText>Tuesday July 1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> WORKERS' RIGHTS COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText> 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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Top of the agenda: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Cooley Dickinson Hospital settles
contract with VNA Nurses after solidarity picket line June 19!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Organizing a Workers' Rights
Board Hearing for Franklin Medical Center Nurses on July 10<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Working with the Northampton
Living Wage Committee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Supporting the <a
href="http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/97042/">Amherst Lunch Ladies</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Rest of the agenda <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- local campaigns and organizing such as: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Mass Nurses Assn contract
struggles at Mercy Hospital and Cooley Dickinson Hospital<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>United Auto Workers contract
struggle at YWCA<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Working with Pioneer Valley AFL-CIO
Street Heat<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>- regional and national campaigns and organizing such as:
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<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'><a
href="http://www.jwj.org/efca.html">Million Member Mobilization</a> for the Employee
Free Choice Act<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>National Week of Action for
Health Care July 14-20 POSTPONED ==> Medicare Birthday Actions July 30<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>IBEW & CWA/IUE contract
struggle at <a href="http://www.jwj.org/campaigns/corporate/vzw.html">Verizon</a>
and organizing at <a
href="http://www.comcastwatch.com/workplace/ibew-organizing-comcast-workers-in-massachusetts.html">Comcast</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'><a
href="http://www.massjwj.net/node/2340">Signal International</a> workers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'><a
href="http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2008/01/brian-howard-nouawcom.html">Toyota
Owners for Fairness</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='text-indent:.5in'>Latest on <a
href="http://www.smithfieldjustice.com/">Smithfield Foods Campaign</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Info: 827-0301, wmjwj@wmjwj.org. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>TO
UNSUBSCRIBE, send an email to wmjwj@wmjwj.org with a Subject of "Unsub
Workers' Rights".<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>[Workers'
Rights] posts opportunities for you to learn about and show solidarity with
workplace and working class struggles. And these events are opportunities for
JwJ members to fulfill their pledge: <a href="http://www.jwj.org/pledge.html">"I'll
be there for workers' rights at least five times a year!"</a> This is the
core mission of Jobs with Justice (<a href="http://www.jwj.org/">www.jwj.org</a>),
affirming that workers' rights are human rights. To subscribe, send an email to
wmjwj@wmjwj.org with a Subject of "Subscribe Worker's Rights".<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Western
Mass Jobs with Justice<br>
640 Page Blvd #101<br>
Springfield MA 01104<br>
(413) 827-0301 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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