Thursday January 22 (Fourth Thursday)
FRANKLIN COUNTY WORKERS'
RIGHTS COMMITTEE
7-8:30pm, First Congregational
Church, 43 Silver St, Greenfield. Organizing local solidarity for Franklin
County workers and unions; nurses and other workers at Franklin Medical Center;
Greenfield municipal employees; and statewide and national workers' rights campaigns,
including People's
Bail-Out and Employee
Free Choice Act.
We will have a telephone call with a representative of United
Electrical Workers Local 1110, which occupied Republic Windows & Doors in
Chicago last month. They are going on a victory tour and will be in Western
Mass on Tuesday February 3, 11:30am, at Pioneer Valley CLC, 640 Page Blvd,
Springfield. See below.
Info: 827-0301, wmjwj@wmjwj.org.
COMMUNITY LUNCH &
FORUM
Armando Robles, President,
UE Local 1110:
the Republic Windows
& Doors Sit-In Strikers in Chicago
Tuesday
February 3
11:30am
Pioneer
Valley CLC, 640 Page Blvd, Springfield
REPUBLIC
WINDOWS & DOORS VICTORY TOUR!
In
December, 260 workers at Chicago's Republic Windows occupied their plant for
six days, a sit-in strike launched in response to the closing of their plant
with only 3 days notice. Jobs with Justice coalitions along with other
community, faith, and labor activists from across the country mobilized in
support of these workers, helping them win a settlement from Bank of America
and Republic owners including severance pay and compensation for unpaid
earnings.
As the economic crisis deepens, millions of people face
jobs loss and foreclosures. Join Jobs with Justice and other groups in
celebrating the successful resistance at Republic and launching the broader
campaign for an economic recovery that puts Main Street before Wall Street.
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