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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