[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] Fw: Strike Alert & Weekly Workers' Rights Calendar

[Sofia JarrinT]

--- On Mon, 6/9/08, Jobs with Justice <jwj at massjwj.net> wrote:
From: Jobs with Justice <jwj at massjwj.net>
Subject: Strike Alert & Weekly Workers' Rights Calendar
To: "Sofia Jarrin-Thomas" <sofiajt at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, June 9, 2008, 12:11 PM

Weekly Workers' Rights Calendar

Strike Alert!  FIDELITY HOUSE
STRIKE
Wednesday, June 11th.  Members of
SEIU Local 509 who work at Fidelity House will begin the 24-hour
strike at 9:00 a.m. on  Wednesday, June
11th.  They will picket the entrance of Fidelity House
at One Parker St in Lawrence, as well as some of the
residences.   Please call Cliff Cohn at 617-924-8509
x530 if you have any questions. Click
here to tell management to settle the
contract!

Cancelled!  Tuesday, June
10, 2008
Cancelled!!! Boston
Taxi Drivers Workers’ Rights Board. 


Wendesday, June 11,
2008
Support Justice for Signal Workers!
 7:00pm – 9pm at Unitarian Universalists service
committee/UUSC, 689 Massachusetts Ave, Central Square,
Cambridge  Skilled Indian workers incurred serious debts to
pay labor recruiters $20,000 in the hope of getting permanent
work and residence for their families in the USA.  Instead
they found themselves working as indentured "guest workers" on
10-month temporary visas at Signal shipyards on the Gulf Coast.
  Come hear the workers describe degrading conditions and
fraudulent promises and how you can support the struggle of
these "Guestworkers for Dignity." For more information, please
contact: Jobs with Justice at 617-524-8778 or  MataHari:
Eye of the Day at 617-448-0993 www.massjwj.net.  

How to Run a Union Meeting- And
more?. Parliamentary Procedure Workshop with Patti
Legault from 9-1 at The Labor Guild, 85 Commercial St, Weymouth
Landing.  Class costs $50 includes lunch.  For more
information go to www.laborguild.com or
email at laborguild at aol.com or call 781-340-7887.


Thursday,
June 12, 2008  
Support Tufts and Suffolk
University Janitors.  These universities have
scheduled these pivotal negotiations to take place during the
summer, so that they will be settled quietly
without any
student or community involvement. The workers are in critical
need of student and community support in order to make their
voices heard.  Please join the janitors of Tufts and
Suffolk universities as they march from 150 Tremont Street at
the Suffolk University Law School to the Tufts Medical Center in
Downtown Boston on at noon.  For more information contact
Kevin at Kevin.Dillon at tufts.edu.

At Home in Utopia,
What happened when radical labor built a house of its own. The
Museum of Fine Arts @ 8 PM.  In the 1920s, thousands of
immigrant Jewish garment workers put a new spin on the American
dream by building four big, beautiful, cooperatively owned
apartment complexes in the Bronx. At Home in Utopia is the story
of the struggle for equity and social justice in the most
radical of the houses - the United Workers Cooperative Colony,
aka the Coops. Check our website for future showing dates. For
tickets in advance, call the MFA at 617 369-3306, or go to
www.mfa.org and then go to calendar/film and the date of your
choice. Questions? Contact Michal or Ellen at Filmmakers
Collaborative, T 781 647-1102, coops at filmmakerscollab.org.  

Tuesday, June
17, 2008
Support New Bedford Eagle Garment
Workers!  Workers at the factory formally know as
Michael Bianco are trying to form a union.  Come support
their efforts at a rally at the plant gate. 
  4PM at 89 Rodney French Blvd, New Bedford.  For
more information, contact Marc at
617-426-1515.

Thursday, June, 19,
2008
The Hyde Square Task Force's Annual Meeting
from 6:00-8:00 PM at the Cheverus Building, featuring
live music, a showcase of HSTF's summer programs, and the
election of our Board of Directors. We hope to see you there!
Please call 617-524-8303 or visit our
website for more
information.
Friday, June 20, 2008
Register now for the
22nd annual Summer Institute!  June 20-22, 2008 at
Clark University, Worcester, MA. Come together with other labor
& community women from around Massachusetts for a fun
weekend of networking, leadership development and skills
training.  Visit www.wildlabor.org for
more details and a registration form, or call 617-426-0520 or
email emily at wildlabor.org.Saturday

Tuesday, June 24,
2008
The next Solidarity Committee
Meeting will be at 6PM in
the Jobs with Justice Office, 3353 Washington St, Jamaica Plain,
MA.  On the agenda is Taxi Workers, Justice for
Skycaps, and Verizon.  For more information or to add your
campaign please feel free to contact Jennifer at
jennifer at massjwj.net or (617)
524-8778.


Thursday, June 26, 2008

Rally to Colonnade Maintenance Workers! Join
members of the Area Trades Council, Jobs with Justice and other
activist at a rally at the Colonnade Hotel
http://www.colonnadehotel.com/location/   on from 3:00
to 5:00PM.  For more information on this struggle contact
Dick Monks at (781) 769-1877.  

Saturday, June 28,
2008
Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, the Ninth
Annual Grassroots Use of Technology conference at
University of Massachusetts - Lowell.  This year's theme is
"Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate"; it focuses on the new
technologies and organizing tools available for connecting
organizers and their communities.  Our registration is now
open. We have online
registration or if you are
paying by check click here to download the form and mail it to us. A
highly motivated team of 19 organizers are planning this year's
event, and additional volunteers are welcome. For more
information on volunteering, please contact Suren at (617)
720-6190.
Save the Dates! Helath Care Week of Action July
14-20th! 
Stay tuned for
Details!

New Study Finds Union Apprenticeship Programs Are
More Successful Than Nonunion.  A new study released by
UMass/Boston compares union and nonunion apprenticeship programs
in Massachusetts over a 10 year span and has found that union
programs are more successful. Click on the UMass Boston Labor
Resource Center site at www.cpcs.umb.edu/lrc
 to read more about the findings of the study.