Support Striking CCP Workers 03/16

Solidarity Rally for CCP Workers- Friday, March 22, 10:00-12 am!!! Click "Tell Me More"

Budget "short-falls" always fall hardest on workers and students.  While Community College and City Administrators make salaries well over $100,000, they point to workers and students to make sacrifices by foregoing raises or by raising tution...

Sample Letter for Campaign

Subject: End Strike with fair wages increases and good health care!

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I am writing to demand that you do everything in your power to end the CCP strike immediately by negotiating fair wage increase and preserving the excellent health care that Faculty Federation of Community College have earned.

This current strike is disrupting thousands of lives of students and workers. The harm to our local economy is already being felt by area vendors who can no longer count on thousands of student patrons for business.

College administrators have expected budget short-falls, the catch all excuse for the current crisis, for months. Yet, you have done nothing to avert the current strike. Instead, school administrators moved forward with large raises for themselves as well as expensive and unneccesary advertising campaigns. Now, thousands suffer for mistaken priorities while Steven Curtis proposes making workers and student pay MORE to make up the difference.

Mr. Curtis, I am a Philadelphia tax payer and I want you to end this strike right now by negotiating fair raises for the hard working teaching, non-teaching and part-time staff of Community College of Philadelphia. Raises which barely keep up with inflation will not sustain our communities. Do not harm our neighbors with small wages or by shifting more health care costs onto them.

Signed by:

Campaign Launched:
March 14, 2007


Background Information

 

Your Solidarity is

Needed !!!

Community College Teacher Support Rally!!!

Thursday, March 12, 10:00-12:00 noon

1700 Spring Garden

 

The Faculty Federation of Community College of Philadelphia is on strike.  Come out and support them at this solidarity rally.  Grab a picket, clap your hands!!!  Bring the luck of the Irish to the striking Faculty Federation members and their families.

 

TO CCP STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF:

        COME ON A

            MARCH TO CITY COUNCIL

                        THURSDAY, MARCH 22

 

10:00 A.M.:   STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF ASSEMBLE IN FRONT OF THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE MINT FOR A BRIEF RUCKUS SESSION.  BRING DRUMS, TAMBOURINES, CASTENETS, POTS, PANS AND BULLHORNS.  ALSO BRING PICKET SIGNS AND HOMEMADE SIGNS WITH SLOGANS"MAYOR STREET, SAVE OUR SCHOOL" AND "CCP, OPEN THE BOOKS" OR "HELP US GET BACK TO SCHOOL." 

 

10:20 A.M.:  MARCH DOWN SPRING GARDEN STREET TO BROAD STREET, AND THEN DOWN BROAD STREET TO CITY HALL. 

 

10:45 A.M.:  RALLY AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF CITY HALL.

 

11:00 A.M.:  WE FILL CITY HALL CHAMBERS (COUNCIL WILL BE IN SESSION), HOLDING UP PLACARDS AND SIGNS REQUESTING THAT MAYOR STREET AND COUNCIL MEMBERS HELP US WIN A FAIR CONTRACT AND PROVIDE FULL FUNDING FOR CCP. 

 

11:30 A.M.:  WE VISIT OFFICES OF INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH FLIERS EXPLAINING OUR ISSUES AND URGING SUPPORT FROM ELECTED OFFICIALS.

The Community College Administration is demanding that the teachers give back significant portions (offering just .4% above the rate of inflation!) of their wages and health care.  In the long run, no one in Philadelphia benefits by taking away good wages and health care from these workers.  Come out and support their struggle.  Stand up with them and show the Community College administrators and Mayor Street that we do not support taking away from our neighbors. 

We need to bring the students back into classes and the teachers back to work.  Only your support can make this happen in a way that doesn't take away the things that these hard working teachers need!

Follow up your fax message with a call to PhD. Steven Curtis, Community College, President  at 215-751-8028.

Tell to end the strike by:

  • Give the teachers, non-teachers and part-time workers wage raises that will help them improve their lives.
  • Keep his hands off of their health care and do not shift-costs onto the workers.
  • Do not raise student tution.