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TAKE ACTION
NOW in this issue
URGENT!! Protect MO's Minimum Wage for Tipped
Employees
SOLIDARITY
EVENTS in this issue
UNITE HERE Action Weekend
2/20-21
GRO
Advocacy training and Medicaid rally
2/25
MORural Family
Farm Lobby Day 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 Missouri House of Representatives that the citizens of
Missouri want to protect the wages of 53,240 tipped
employees.
SOLIDARITY
EVENTS
Friday and Saturday, February 20 & 21,
2009
UNITE HERE Action
Weekend
Join union members on site visits to support
the workers at Lumiere Casino as they gear up to vote on union
representation on February 27th. Please show your support
as the company is running an anti-union
campaign. Departments involved include: Burger Bar,
Bartenders, Cocktail servers, All Buffet workers, housekeepers,
cage, slot workers, valet and shuttle drivers.
Please wear your union colors as
you visit the casino, talk to the workers and let them know that
you are union brothers and sisters.Lumiere Casino is located on
Laclede's Landing, 999 N. Second St,
St. Louis. Take action anytime (the casino is open 24
hours) on February 20 and 21. For more information
contact Kim
Bartholemew at (618) 623-9256.
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
To carpool from St. Louis email Amy Smoucha at
Amy@stl-jwj.org
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:00
AM- 1:00 PM
MORural Family Farm Lobby
Day
Join the Missouri
Rural Crisis Center along with family farmers, rural citizens
and consumers at the State Capitol to show your support for
family farms, local control, and healthy food. Let your legislators know
that you will not support any bill that takes local control from
farmers or supports corporate agribusiness at the expense of
Missouri’s family farmers.
Family Farm Lobby
day will be held on Wednesday, February 25 at 10 am,
House Hearing Room 2- in the capitol basement. For more
information contact Tim Gibbons timgibbons@morural.org
or Rhonda Perry, Rhonda@morural.org at the Missouri Rural
Crisis Center, or call 573-449-1336.
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. For more information contact Jobs
with Justice info@mojwj.org
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