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 Jobs with Justice Solidarity Calendar

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Jobs with Justice Solidarity Calendar – Jan-April 2012

The idea is to list all the information that is shared at our monthly Steering Committee—now it’s all here in one place, for folks to use in their union newsletters, church bulletins, email lists, or just to stick up on the fridge. (Apologies in advance for any accidental omissions; please check with event organizers to confirm any details, or call JwJ 503-236-5573.) For more information or to make an online donation please visit http://www.jwjpdx.org

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Upcoming Actions:

Get on the Bus for the WRB, sign up here

Workers’ Rights Board Hearing

About Contract Negotiations at the Vancouver Hilton

 

Workers at the Vancouver Hilton have been working for a new contract for many months.  They have been fighting to improve their wages and working conditions for over 6 years.  The workers will testify about their working conditions, their contract campaign and management’s response to it.  The Workers’ Rights Board panel will hear the testimony and make recommendations for a peaceful and just resolution of the workers’ concerns.

 

Thursday February 23rd • 6:30 pm 

Vancouver Public Library • 901 C Street Vancouver

 

Get on the bus to come to the hearing.  Bus will leave UNITE HERE office, 1125 SE Madison,  at 5:30 pm. sign up here!



Saturday, April 14th, Inner City Blues Fest, A Benefit for the Oregon Single Payer Campaign http://www.singlepayeroregon.org/

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Upcoming Actions:

-The struggle continues, We need folks to leaflet Verizon stores Downtown, Mall 205 and Gresham on Wednesday and Saturdays!!!.  45,000 Verizon workers are fighting for a fair contract and to preserve the middle class and the American Dream in the Northeast. If wealthy corporations like Verizon continue to outsource jobs and hold down worker wages, there is no hope for an economic recovery. This is why our fight is your fight and why your support is so important. Join us as we support workers by leafleting at Verizon Wireless stores to get our message out, please sign up for a two hour shift by calling JWJ at 503-236-5573 or email Mary at marywinzig@hotmail.com Stand with Workers, Not Rich CEOs.

Hope to see you in one or many of these important actions.

Tell Congress: Tax Wall Street to heal Main Street, and put America back to work.

Our communities are devastated by foreclosures and unemployment.  Corporate-funded politicians are gutting services and attacking worker rights, claiming our state and national governments are broke – while Wall Street and corporate CEOs are getting record bonuses and sitting on record cash reserves (and often paying little or nothing in taxes).  Despite massive fraud and reckless greed that wrecked our economy, throwing millions of Americans out of work and out of their homes, not a single Wall Street "bankster" has gone to jail.

The fight back is growing!

National Nurses United (NNU) led a National Day of Action in more than 60 cities, supported by Jobs with Justice coalitions and other allies, demanding a Financial Speculation Tax (FST) which could pay for millions of good jobs, making Wall Street speculators pay for some of the damage they caused and restraining some of the more dangerous speculative trading.  One part of breaking the grip of Wall Street, an FST is supported by many organizations, including the AFL-CIO. NNU actions urged members of Congress to support a robust FST that would generate at least $350 Billion per year.

TAKE ACTION NOW!  

In August, thousands of Hyatt hotel workers in four cities nationwide--Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Honolulu—went on strike.
They are on strike not only to win a fair contract at their own hotels, but to take a stand against Hyatt's abuse of hotel workers in cities across the country.

Cathy YoungbloodHyatt has abused its housekeepers, replacing career housekeepers with minimum wage temporary workers and imposing dangerous workloads on those housekeepers who remain. Take for example Boston, where Hyatt fired its entire housekeeping staff at three non-union hotels, replacing women who had worked at Hyatt for decades with temporary workers earning minimum wage. Hyatt even turned heat lamps on striking workers in Chicago during a brutal heat wave this July.

The people who clean, staff and help make Hyatt Hotels successful are simply seeking protections on the job.

We heard from Hyatt worker Cathy Youngblood at the JwJ National Conference in August. Today she and her coworkers are on strike not just for a fair contract at their hotels, but for the right to stand up to Hyatt wherever they are abusing housekeepers. Cathy says:

I believe in hard work, but living in pain is a different story. I have to take medication regularly because my wrists and shoulders hurt from having to lift 100-pound mattresses over and over again every day as I change the bedding. Other Hyatt housekeepers have been permanently injured by the grueling work we do.
Not far from my hotel in West Hollywood, at the Hyatt in Long Beach, California, workers have no union. Conditions there are even worse. My sisters are required to clean twice as many rooms in one eight-hour shift, leaving them just 15 minutes for each room. That's 15 minutes to change bedding, scrub the bathroom, dust, vacuum, empty the trash, and change linens, among other things. It's no surprise that women are getting hurt.

TAKE ACTION NOW TO SUPPORT HYATT HOUSEKEEPERS!
 

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JUSTICE @ VERIZON

Justice @ Verizon —Your Support Needed

verizonCWA and IBEW returned to the bargaining table with Verizon on August 31. This “reset”of the company’s bargaining position was made possible by the tremendous strike and mobilization efforts of union members and allies like you across the country. Jobs with Justice coalitions,union members,and allies continue to leaflet at Verizon stores across the country to let Verizon know that we won’t let them get away with gutting good jobs —especially on the heels of news that Verizon pays their CEO more than they pay in U.S. taxes!

But this fight is far from over. Verizon workers need OUR SUPPORT to keep the pressure on! How you can help:

  • LEAFLET: There is a new leaflet available for download &distribution at your local Verizon Wireless store. Download a new flyer and organize a group to leaflet. We are particularly focusing our efforts on Wireless Wednesdays from 12-2pm and 5-7pm and Saturdays.
  • ADOPT A STORE: Can you commit to coordinating activities at a store near you? Can you commit,at a minimum,to activities on Wireless Wednesdays from 12-2pm and 5-7pm and/or Saturdays? Adopt a Store!
  • FIND A LEAFLETING ACTION NEAR YOU: Find stores that are already “adopted”and join planned activities.
  • REPORT YOUR ACTIVITIES: Please use the form on the JwJ website to report on your activities.

For background on the situation at Verizon, see Stop Verizon Greed! 45,000 on Strike

Thank you for all you have done and all that you will continue to do!

JUSTICE AT HERSHEY’S

Student Guestworkers Sit-In at Hershey Factory –Your help needed!

Justice at Hershey'sOn August 17, over 300 students from across the globe walked out of the Hershey’s packaging plant in protest. The students paid $3,000-$6,000 each to come to the U.S. this summer for what they thought would be a cultural exchange program through the State Department’s J-1 visa. Instead,they found themselves packing chocolates at the Hershey’s plant in deeply exploitative conditions. After automatic weekly deductions for rent in company housing and other expenses,they net between $40 and $140 per week for 40 hours of work. The workers talked about their struggle and asked for our support at the JwJ national conference. TAKE ACTION NOW!

JOBS WITH JUSTICE CONFERENCE

JwJ Conference: Building a Transformative Vision to Expand Workers’Rights

JwJ ConferenceFrom August 5-7,2011, Jobs with Justice held our National Conference in Washington,DC. The Conference,which was attended by nearly 700 activists from across the country, re-energized and recommitted workers’ rights activists and advocates to working together in solidarity to address the rights of workers everywhere and to collectively engage in strategy discussions around the economy, corporate accountability, and strengthening grassroots organizing base around a variety of issues. Most importantly the event allowed Jobs with Justice,our network,partners,and supporters to reflect on two critical questions:how do we protect and expand the right to organize and collectively bargain in this critical moment in our labor movement;and what is the role of Jobs with Justice in mobilizing the network, its allies, partners, and everyday workers around workers justice issues during this period. Read more...

CARING ACROSS GENERATIONS

The Care We Imagine

On July 12th,over 700 participants gathered to launch the Caring Across Generations campaign at the inaugural Care Congress in Washington,DC. The Caring Across Generations (CARE) campaign calls us to transform the direct care industry by providing the space to re-imagine care. Grounded in the ”Five Fingers of the Caring Hand” the members of the CARE Campaign believe that the fight for job creation, job quality, training and career pathways, comprehensive immigration reform and support for individuals and families is central to creating an industry where care-givers and care-receivers are mutually respected. Read more...

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