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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 18:44:09 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: M-FEM: Welfare Rights Union opposes use of homeless as strikebreakers


>Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 15:02:45 -0500
>From: Jim Davis <jdav-AT-MCS.COM>
>Subject: Welfare Rights Union opposes use of homeless as strikebreakers
>Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <LABOR-L-AT-YORKU.CA>
>
>>August 13, 1997
>>Contact: Cheri Honkala
>>215.763.4584
>>
>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
>>
>>
>>               HOMELESS RESIDENTS OF CITY SHELTER USED
>>                   TO CROSS TEAMSTER=92S PICKET LINE:
>>
>>    Kensington Welfare Rights Union Stands United With Teamsters
>> to Stop Use of City Shelters to Throw Other Workers into Homelessness
>>
>>Press Conference:
>>3 PM Wednesday, August 13
>>Ridge Shelter
>>1320 Ridge Avenue
>>
>>Homeless residents at Ridge Shelter have come forward stating that a
>>brown UPS van regularly visits Ridge Shelter to pick up homeless
>>residents, sneaks them into UPS, and pays them $5 an hour to cross the
>>picket line and work at UPS.
>>
>>The Teamsters and the KWRU demand an investigation by the Mayor as to
>>why city-subsidized shelters and being used to recruit homeless
>>individuals to break a strike and eventually throw striking workers into
>>the ranks of the homeless.
>>
>>The UPS workers on strike are fighting part-time work, slashed benefits
>>and the possibility of becoming homeless themselves.  The KWRU stands in
>>unity with organized labor and the striking Teamsters and calls for an
>>end to using welfare recipients and homeless people to replace union
>>labor.  We stand together for the right of all people to have full-time
>>jobs at a living wage with benefits and union protection.
>>
>>
>>Speaking at the Press Conference:
>>
>>Cheri Honkala          Director, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
>>
>>Jim Merritt                Sec/Tres Teamsters local 623
>>                    (UPS Workers Greater Philadelphia)
>>
>>Henry Nicholas     President, National Union of Hospital and
>>                    Health Care Employees
>>
>>Jim Moran                  Chair, Labor Day Committee;
>>                    Chair, Labor Party of Greater Philadelphia
>>
>>--
>>Kensington Welfare Rights Union
>>a statewide organization of the poor
>>NUHHCE, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
>>PO Box 50678
>>Philadelphia, PA  19132
>>http://www.libertynet.org/~kwru
>>kwru-AT-libertynet.org
>>215.763-4584
>>215.763-7575 FAX
>>


   

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