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TAKE ACTION
NOW in this issue
URGENT!! Protect MO's Minimum Wage for
Tipped Employees
URGENT!! Tell your Senator:
Support The Stimulus
SOLIDARITY
EVENTS in this issue
Put America Back to Work March
2/10
SLPD Local Control Lobby Day 2/17 *New
Date*
Labor Learn Films Series
2/17
LaborTech Conference
2/18
GRO Advocacy training and Medicaid rally
2/25
JwJ Organizing Committee
Meeting 3/26
TAKE ACTION
NOW
URGENT! Protect MO's Minimum Wage
for Tipped Employees
In 2006, 76.4% of
Missourians voted to pass Proposition B to raise the wage for
ALL Missouri workers, including tipped employees.Now, House Bill 258 is threatening to roll back
the minimum wage for tipped employees to that of 15 years
ago.
We must act NOW! CLICK
HERE NOW, to tell the Special Standing Committee
on Workforce Development & Workplace Safety that the
citizens of Missouri want to protect the wages of 53,240 tipped
employees.
URGENT! Tell your Senator:
Support The Stimulus
There are millions of Americans and thousands of Missourians
who are losing their jobs, their homes, and insurance
benefits. It is imperative that our Senators take decisive
action immediately supporting the Economic Recovery and
Reinvestment Act. Our country, states, cities and
towns are suffering, in a manner not seen since the Great
Depression.
CLICK HERE NOW, to send your
letter to our US Senators telling them to support the Economic
Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
SOLIDARITY
EVENTS
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Put America Back to
Work March
Join Missouri Jobs with Justice and the
United Steel Workers as we march from Granite City Works to
American Steel in support of the economic stimulus package.
The march will start at 20th
Street in Granite City, Illinois 62040 – Granite City
Works in the parking lot at Lee Ave. and end at 1700
Walnut, Granite City, Illinois 62040 – Amsted Rail
(American Steel) in the parking lot on Niedringhaus Ave. across
from the Plant Entrance. The march will be
approximately 1 mile long.
For more information CLICK
HERE or contact Aaron Burnett aaron@stl-jwj.org
Tuesday, February 17,
2009 7:00 AM- 5:00 PM
St. Louis Police Department Local Control
Lobby Day
The Coalition Against Police Crimes And
Repression (CAPCAR) a St. Louis group will be lobbying the Missouri
state legislature for HB 552 to give the St. Louis Police local
control.
CAPCAR is asking St. Louisans to attend the
lobby day at the state legislature, in Jefferson
City. Free transportation to Jefferson City will be
provided. Participants will leave from the parking lot of
Central Reform Congregation, 5020 Waterman at 7 AM and will
return to St. Louis around 5 PM.
No experience required, training will
be provided. For more information contact John Chasnoff
at john@aclu-em.org or
(314) 413-0454.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
6:30 PM - Film Showing; 7:30 PM - Labor Council
Meeting
Labor Learn Films
Series: "Morristown: In the Air and
Sun"
Come early to
the St. Louis Labor Council monthly delegate meeting held the
third Tuesday of every month. Each month, the Labor
Council offers a different film on a relevant topic.
The film
showing will be held in the same hall as the Labor Council
Meeting at IBEW
Local 1, 5850 Elizabeth Ave, 63110. The
St. Louis Labor Council Meeting will follow the film at 7:30
PM. The film is open to ALL. For
more information contact Roz Sherman Voellinger at 314-615-7604
or sherman-voellingerr@missouri.edu.
Wednesday February 18, 2009
8:30
AM- Registration; 9:15 AM-4:00 PM- Program
LaborTech Conference:
Using Technology to Advance the Labor
Movement
Learn how to use the
latest technology to improve your website, communicate your
message, interact with members and public, and more. The
conference will be held at the Sprinkler Fitters, Local 268, 1544 S. Third St.,
63104. The cost per person is $75 and includes food and
materials. For more information contact Roz Sherman Voellinger
at 314-615-7604 or sherman-voellingerr@missouri.edu.
Tuesday, February 25, 2009
9:45-11:45 AM- Training; 12 PM- Rally
GRO Advocacy training
and Medicaid rally
Grassroots Organizing (GRO) will provide a People's
Advocacy Workshop from 9:45 to 11:45 AM in Hearing Room #7 in
the Capitol basement. Following the training there will be a
noon Medicaid Restoration Rally.
GRO will also be staffing an information table in the rotunda
for people to look-up their State Representatives and Senators
as well as answer any questions.
GRO will be providing lunch and limited
transportation for individuals that contacts them by Monday
February 23, 2009. Please contact GRO as soon as
possible at jennifer@gromo.org
or GRO HQ 1-877-581-9595/
573-581-9595
Thursday, March 26, 2009 6PM - 8
PM
JwJ Organizing Committee
Meeting
Held at Epiphany United Church
of Christ ,2911 McNair, 63118, in the Benton Park
neighborhood of St. Louis City. Agenda items to be
announced at a later date.
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