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TAKE ACTION NOW in
this issue
URGENT!! Protect MO's Minimum
Wage for Tipped Employees
URGENT!! Stop KSDK from Mistreating
Employees
SOLIDARITY
EVENTS in this issue
CWA
Informational Picket 4/2
Farmer's Market and Festival
4/4
Rally
for a Compassionate Missouri Budget 4/5
Healthcare Reform Roundtable
4/6
Rally to Restore
American Manufacturing 4/7
First 100 Days of
the Obama Administration 4/18
Hershel Walker
"Peace & Justice Awards Breakfast
4/25
JwJ Organizing Committee Meeting
5/28
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.
URGENT! Stop KSDK
from Mistreating Employees
Members of St. Louis Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 36047 at KSDK
are currently negotiating a new contract with management. KSDK
management is demanding a 15 percent wage cut from the Guild
members while management sees no cuts in pay.
Local 36047 is asking members of organized labor to call the
television station and ask management for an explanation. Union
members should call KSDK-TV President Lynn Beall at
(314)444-5265 or News Director Mike Shipley at (314)444-5131 to
demand that "management stop mistreating it's employees in the
name of higher profits."
SOLIDARITY
EVENTS
Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:30AM-12:30PM
CWA Informational
Picket
Join CWA 6300 as they hold an informational picket for
workers for workers at AT&T that are currently in contract
negotiations.
The picket will be held outside One AT&T Center in
Downtown St. Louis. For more information contact Gail
DiSilvester at 314-991-0200.
Saturday, April 4, 2009 10AM- 3:30PM
Farmer's
Market and Festival
Join The Missouri Rural Crisis Center & the Patchwork
Family Farms to celebrate 23 years of Farm Aid. Along with
a farmer's market, The Gallery at Coffee Cartel Presents "Farm
Aid: 23 years of Music for Family Farmers" an amazing collection
of concert memorabilia, footage and music from Farm Aid,
America's longest running benefit concert series.
The event takes place at The Gallery at Coffee
Cartel, #2 Maryland Plaza- St. Louis (corner of Euclid &
Maryland in the Central West End). For more information
contact The Missouri Rural Crisis Center at (573)449-1336.
Sunday, April 5, 2009 2PM
Rally for a
Compassionate Missouri Budget
Join the Faith community as they rally to speak out against
the budget recently passed by the Missouri House of
Representatives that cut critical services that help children,
the elderly, and the disabled in the state.
The rally begins at 2:00pm on the steps of the Old
St. Louis Courthouse, 11 N. 4th Street. Participants are asked
to bring their cell phone. For more information please
contact Amy Smoucha, amy@mojwj.org, Stacey Sickler,
ssickler@faithbeyondwalls.org
314-570-5505, or Jen Bersdale, Jennifer@centralreform.org
314-361-1564 ext. 116
Monday, April 6, 2009 6PM- 8PM
Healthcare
Reform Roundtable
The Saint Louis University School of Social Work, The
Department of Public Policy Studies, and The Doerr Center for
Social Justice invite you to A Healthcare Reform Roundtable to
learn about current healthcare reform policy from local
advocates, activists and community organizers. Strategize and
collaborate around local efforts to secure quality, affordable
healthcare for all. Speakers include JwJ leaders Michael Mancini
and Amy Smoucha.
The roundtable will be located at St. Louis
University – II Monstero, 3010 Olive St., St. Louis, MO
63103. Free Parking is available. This event is free
and open to the public. Advanced registration is encouraged.
Please RSVP to Michael Mancini, mancinim@slu.edu
314-977-2736
Tuesday, April 7, 2009 11AM
Rally to Restore
American Manufacturing
Join the United Steelworkers as they Rally against the miles
of steel pipe made in India for the Keystone pipeline being
unloaded in the shadow of the idled Granite City Steel Works.
Rally in Solidarity to demand from Congress that our government
begin to restore our manufacturing base by insisting all
stimulus projects use products Made in America.
The Rally starts at The River's Edge (Granite City
Army Depot) Highway 3 and Niedringhaus Avenue, Granite City,
IL.
Saturday, April 18, 2009 1PM-4PM
First 100 Days
of the Obama Administration: A Progress report and Call to
Action
The Justice Institute presents "First 100 Days of the Obama
Administration: A Progress report and Call to Action". Join the
community in discussing the first 100 days of the Obama
Administration and working sessions to determine local
coordinated action in Peace, education, and Healthcare.
The Discussion will take place at The University of
Missouri – St. Louis (South Campus, Marillac Hall) 8001
Natural Bridge Rd, St. Louis, MO 63121. The event is
free to the public, however, advanced registration is
encouraged. Confirm your participation by emailing The Justice
Institute at thejusticeinst@yahoo.com
.
Saturday, April 25, 2009 9:30 AM
17th Annual
Hershel Walker 'Peace & Justice' Awards
Breakfast
The MO/KS Friends of the People's Weekly World will host the
17th Annual Hershel Walker 'Peace & Justice' Awards
Breakfast. This year's awardees include Lara Granich - Executive
Director Missouri Jobs with Justice, Don Giljum – Business
Manager Operating Engineers' Union Local 148, and Maida Coleman
– former 5th District Senator. Margarida Jorge,
national field director for Health Care for America Now! (HCAN)
will keynote the event.
The breakfast will be at the Postal Workers Union,
1717 S. Broadway. For more information contact Tony
Pecinovsky tonypec@cpusa.org
314-776-7732
Thursday, May 28, 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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