[olympiaworkers] Don't Mourn, Organize (Puget Sound area grocery workers)

From: info@organizedworkers.org (OWLS)
Date: Thu, July 22, 2010 9:46 pm

Dear friend of working people,

What do grocery clerks, school bus drivers, and employees at
Seattle Housing Authority have in common? They are all living the
advice of famous labor agitator Mother Jones who urged workers to
organize, and not accept low wages and lousy working conditions.

Learn about efforts to win union representation at First
Student, and a fair contract for 21,000 Puget Sound area grocery
workers at QFC, Fred Meyer, Albertson?s, Safeway, Metropolitan Market
and independent stores, represented by United Food and Commercial
Workers (UFCW) Local 21. Their contract, bargained by Local 21,
expired in May and is in "extension." So far, there is no real
progress in coming to a fair and just settlement. Also, the grocery
workers "BILL OF RIGHTS" will be presented and available in petition
form for all who want to sign on their support. More than 41,000
residents and grocery workers from across Puget Sound have signed on
to this important initiative that will ultimately be presented to the
corporations at bargaining sessions. Be a part of the action!!

Bring news of your own labor campaign, and join rank-and-file
labor activists in a discussion on how to collaborate and coordinate
efforts to strengthen workers rights throughout Puget Sound at the
next meeting of Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity.

TUESDAY, JULY 27, 7PM AT THE SEATTLE LABOR TEMPLE, 2800 FIRST AVE.,
HALL #6