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DECEMBER 2002 INDEXLabor News Index: A Service of Campaign for Labor RightsTable of Contents1. CLR CAMPAIGNS 1.2 Taco Bell: Growing Support for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers & Taco Bell Boycott 2. DOMESTIC CAMPAIGNS 2.2 Whole Foods: Madison, Wisconsin Whole Foods Market Fires Union Organizers 2.3 Forever 21: Workers at Forever 21 Fighting for Unpaid Hours of Work 3. INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS 3.2 COSTCO operations in Mexico threaten local Environment & Small Businesses 3.3 Nike Refusing to Pay Indonesian Workers 3.4 Bed & Bath Owners Skip
Town, Leaving Workers Without Pay 4.2 PPP: Just Say No to the Plan Puebla Panama 4.3 Burma: Free Burma Coalition Tour 4.4 Asian Social Forum: Requests for representatives at Asian Social Forum 4.5 Migrant Workers: After more than a decade, the UN's Charter on Migrant Workers comes into force 5. RESOURCES 5.2 FTAA: Central American Popular Block Denounces the Free Trade Area of the Americas 5.3 Latin America: New ILO Report Details Rising Unemployment in Latin America 5.4 Students: Website for student activist groups 5.5 Gap: UNITE! report targets Gap, Inc. 6. JOB LISTINGS 6.2 Labor Notes (Detroit, MI) 7. SEASONAL SECTION: HOLIDAY SHOPPING back to top 1. CLR CAMPAIGNS1.1 The Struggle Continues for an independent union at Alcoa's Piedras Negras factoriesWRITE to Alcoa CEO Alan Belda to show your support of the struggle for an independent union at Piedras Negras. MAKE a donation to the Comite de Fronterizo de Obrero (CFO) to help them continue their work in support of the Alcoa campaign. Alcoa, Inc. is the world's largest aluminum producer, employing 129,000 people in 37 countries. Its Mexican subsidiary, Macoelmex, operates maquiladora factories in the border town of Piedras Negras in the Mexican state of Coahuila. There, rank-and-file workers have been fighting for an independent union due to the corrupt practices of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM). Jake Siewert, Alcoa's Vicepresident of Global Communications and Strategies, claims that the company "has clearly communicated its neutrality in union matters" and that it does not accept "the use of violence and intimidation to seek change." Alcoa also claims to support its workers' freedom of association. However, Alcoa and the CTM are responsible for creating working conditions at Piedras Negras that are hostile towards independent union organizing. For example, company vans have followed and videotaped workers outside the two plant facilities after work hours - probably to intimidate them from meeting to discuss independent union activities. On February 25, 2002, workers under the leadership of the CTM's Leocadio Hernandez entered Plant #2 during work hours and beat several workers. At the same time, CTM supporters forced Amparo Reyes, an outspoken independent union activist, to leave Plant #1; Reyes was escorted to the street by company security guards. To date, Alcoa has failed to take action against the aggressors. Alcoa has also discriminately fired workers such as Amparo Reyes that are critical of the CTM. In the face of such violent repression, workers still voiced their demand for an independent union through elections held on March 4, 2002, in which the CTM lost majority support of the Macoelmex workforce. Despite its electoral success, Alcoa refused to acknowledge the independent union's legitimacy, and the CTM retained the exclusive right to collective bargaining. The latest elections were held on October 18, 2002. The independent union, under the Unity Slate, won, giving new hope to the struggle for fair representation and just working conditions. The victory was extremely remarkable considering the recent firing of 20 union supporters, including all 5 Unity leaders. This has forced Hernandez (CTM) to prove that he is an honest negotiator and representative. As a result, Hernandez has pledged to win back the workers' benefits package that he bargained away during negotiations in 2001. The international campaign has forced Alcoa to replace two key managers, as well as Miguel Portillo, head of Macoelmex human resources. Workers have reported that the level of intimidation and repression has since decreased; for example, security guards no longer videotape workers on the shop floor. However, more actions, letters, emails, and faxes are needed in order to help workers at Piedras Negras establish an independent union that can fight for just labor conditions. In the United States, several organizations organized speaking tours of workers from Piedras Negras to educate and mobilize the American public about this campaign. The groups involved included: the Campaign for Labor Rights, United Students against Sweatshops, National Labor Committee, United Steelworkers of America, United Electric, U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project, Austin Tan Cerca de las Frontier, and the American Friends Service Committee. These organizations hosted and arranged informational picketing and delegations to Alcoa locations, as well as radio interviews for Rafael Salinas on the East Coast. The tour made stops in Manchester, NH; New York, NY; Amherst, MA; and New Haven, CT. In addition, Salinas was able to attend a panel chaired by former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo at Yale University. Salinas informed Zedillo of the abysmal situation at Alcoa's Macoelmex operation in Piedras Negras, and this informal discussion helped Salinas arrange meetings with company officials at their New York City and Pittsburgh headquarters. Similar meetings and actions were organized for Guillermo Fernandez - a fired worker - and Margarita Ramirez - a CFO organizer - in San Antonio, TX. Events there were organized by Fuerza Unida, the Southwest Workers' Union, and the San Antonio Green Party. The Evening Citizen of Laconia, NH published an article about the Manchester, NH event. To read the article, copy and paste the following link: www.citizen.com/news2002/November02/Nov19/be111.19.02b.asp MAKE A DONATION: The Comite Fronterizo de Obrero (CFO) is underwriting some of the expenses related to the Alcoa campaign. We encourage you to send a donation directly to the CFO's mailing address: 2305 El Indio Highway / Box 115 / Eagle Pass, TX 78852. Checks can be made payable to 'CFO.' WRITE LETTERS OR EMAILS: Write to Alcoa CEO Alain Belda. Thank him for replacing key managers responsible for worker intimidation and harassment. Tell him that you support the fight for democratic union representation at the plants in Piedras Negras, Mexico. Urge the company to discontinue all harassment and intimidation of workers inside and outside the plant, and to reinstate all the workers fired for supporting the democratic union initiative: Alain Belda / CEO, Alcoa Inc. / 201 Isabella Street / Pittsburgh, PA 15212 / fax (412) 553-4498 / email alain.belda@alcoa.com. For detailed background information on this campaign, visit www.campaignforlaborrights.org. back to top 1.2 Growing Support for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers & Taco Bell boycottSIGN-UP AND MOBILIZE OTHERS for the February 24, 2003 hunger strike & the February 28, 2003 convergence, both at Taco Bell headquarters (Irvine, CA) to demonstrate your support for the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the boycott against Taco Bell! WRITE OR EMAIL Taco Bell and show your support for the Florida farmworkers. Taco Bell is a major buyer of Florida tomatoes for its global operations. Given its size and economic strength, Taco Bell has the power to help bring about more just and fair labor conditions at tomato fields in Immokalee, Florida. Taco Bell profits directly from Immokalee farm workers' sub-poverty wages, unpaid overtime, and total lack of benefits in the form of low-cost tomatoes. For 20 years, Florida tomato growers have paid the same "picking piece rate" of 40-50 cents per 32-pound bucket. In its latest report to the United States Congress, the U.S. Department of Labor condemned working conditions in U.S. fields, finding that "low wages, sub-poverty annual earnings, significant periods of un- and underemployment ... all add up to a labor force in significant distress." In the past five years in southern Florida alone, the U.S. Department of Justice has prosecuted five cases of modern-day slavery, involving hundreds of workers forced to work through violence or the threat of violence. Despite the legal proceedings against Florida tomato growers, workers in Immokalee continue to be among the worst paid and least protected in the country. And free trade policies such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) have, and continue, to worsen the situation. This is because such trade agreements have forced millions of people throughout Latin America to abandon their communities, and join the growing migration wave in a desperate search for employment and a means to feed their families. Once here, these economic and political refugees face no real choice at all: hunger or working for poverty wages with absolutely no benefits or job security, no overtime pay, no right to organize without fear of retaliation, and in the most extreme cases, under conditions of modern-day slavery. But today, farm workers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) have had enough. The CIW is spearheading the national boycott against Taco Bell, calling for an end to sweatshops in the fields. The campaign against Taco Bell has made significant progress through campus activists working in solidarity with the CIW. Students at the University of San Francisco succeeded in booting Taco Bell off their campus, and the student government at San Diego State University recently passed a resolution endorsing the Taco Bell boycott; the United Students Against Sweatshops chapter at San Diego State is now mobilizing to remove Taco Bell from its campus. Similar actions are taking place and being planned across the United States. Over the past Thanksgiving holiday, the CIW hosted a dinner and strategy session with nearly 30 student and youth groups from across the United States. The participants spent the weekend working in the fields, attending workshops on issues such as the FTAA. Most importantly, there was a day-long strategy session facilitated by members of the CIW. They discussed popular education techniques that will help organize and mobilize people to take part in the national convergence in February 2003. On February 24, 2003, the CIW is calling for a hunger strike to begin outside of Taco Bell headquarters in Irvine, California. And on February 28, 2003, there will be a national convergence of workers, labor rights activists, students, and people from the religious communities at the same location. Please email the CIW if you would like to get involved in the February mobilization: workers@ciw-online.org. For more information, please contact: Coalition of Immokalee Workers - www.ciw-online.org, (941) 821-5481 Campaign for Labor Rights website - www.clrlabor.org, (202) 232-5002 SIGN-UP AND MOBILIZE OTHERS for the February convergences in Irvine, CA. WRITE OR SEND FAXES: Urge Taco Bell officials to meet with representatives of the CIW and discuss how the company could help bring about long-denied justice to Florida farm workers: Mr. Emil J. Brolick / President and Chief Concept Officer / Taco Bell Corporation / 17901 Von Karman / Irvine, CA 92614 / fax (949) 863-4537. back to top
2. DOMESTIC CAMPAIGNS2.1 Workers at Azteca Foods Call for more ActionOn September 30, 2002 63 workers - members of UE Local 1159 - at the giant tortilla company, Azteca, went on strike demanding that management take action against the many serious risks such as rashes, burns, and other injuries that are commonplace at their workplace. Since then, nearly 3,000 emails have flooded Azteca Foods headquarters in Chicago. At the same time, activists in Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Milwaukee have leafleted retail stores, encouraging consumers to boycott Azteca. Workers are asking the public to continue emailing and calling Azteca's toll free number, urging the company to quit stalling and negotiate a decent contract. For more information about the campaign against Azteca Foods, visit the UE website - www.ranknfile-ue.org. CALL Azteca at 1-800-475-7997, and urge the company to return to the bargaining table and negotiate a fair contract. SEND a boycott email pledge, and encourage others to do so as well - www.ranknfile-ue.org/cm/azteca.php. back to top 2.2 Madison, Wisconsin Whole Foods Market Fires Union OrganizersOn November 19, 2002, Debbie Rasmusen and Julie Thayer were fired from the Madison, Wisconsin Whole Foods Market. The company cited a minor infraction that usually warrants a verbal punishment. However, the women and their co-workers argue that they were fired, because they led the union organizing drive at the local store. The Madison Whole Foods Market was the first to unionize - UFCW Local 1444 - but this has not protected workers like Rasmusen and Thayer. CALL Whole Foods Market regional office in Chicago and let them know that you support the workers' right to organize: tel. (773) 755-1500 / fax (773) 755-2452. back to top 2.3 Workers at Forever 21 Fighting for Unpaid Hours of WorkTwenty-nine garment workers are in the fight against Forever 21, a popular women's clothing line, demanding unpaid minimum wage and overtime pay. The women are also asking that Forever 21 ensure that its subcontracting factories do not continue to use sweatshop labor. They organized a national week of actions from December 2-8, 2002 in order to spread the message about the campaign. For more information about the campaign, please contact the Garment Worker Center: www.garmentworkercenter.org, 888-449-6115. ORGANIZE an action at a nearby Forever 21 store. to find the nearest location, go to: www.forever21.com PLAN a call-in day and tell Forever 21 that they should pay their workers fairly and on time. back to top 3. INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGNS3.1 Fired Duro Bag Co. workers on tour in Vancouver & SeattleSPONSOR a tour stop in your community! Workers at Duro Bag Co.'s Mexico factories in the border town of Rio Bravo assemble shopping bags used by giant corporations such as Hallmark and Nieman Marcus, earning barely $4.00 a day. In 2001, they attempted to establish an independent union, but lost after fraudulent elections and the firing of 150 workers. Many others were threatened and beaten. The Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, the Campaign for Labor Rights, as well as the American and Canadian paperworkers' unions have supported the struggle to organize an independent union. And so the fired workers refuse to stop organizing. They have formed a Duro Workers' Center to serve as a cooperative and educational center for the workers, and plan to tour the United States and Canada in order to build international support for the center's efforts. For more information, please contact: Dave Yao, davidyao@scn.org, (206) 784-2869 back to top 3.2 COSTCO operations in Mexico threaten local environment and small businessesORGANIZE a leafleting action outside a nearby COSTCO! In the past few weeks, the American corporation, COSTCO, and its Mexican partner, Comercial Mexicana, have cut down hundreds of trees, many of which were over 100 years old. The logging occurred in the center of Cuernavaca, Mexico in order to build two mega-stores and a parking lot. This was in addition to 1,400 square meters that had already been cleared. Local vendors would be undercut by this multinational corporation which could potentially threaten thousands of local jobs at small and medium sized businesses. In response, the U.S.-based Mexico Solidarity Network has joined with the citizens of Cuernavaca in calling for a boycott against COSTCO. Actions are already being planned in Vancouver, Montreal, San Diego, and Chicago. For more information and to download a flier about COSTCO, please visit the Mexico Solidarity Network - www.mexicosolidarity.org, (773) 583-7728 DISTRIBUTE the flier at local COSTCO stores, and help spread the word about the company's destructive environmental practices. back to top 3.3 Nike Refusing to Pay Indonesian WorkersEMAIL Nike CEO Phil Knight and tell him to pay! As of December 3, 2002, the 7000 Indonesian factory workers who recently lost their jobs when Nike pulled orders from PT Doson, have not received their legally guaranteed severance package and the Nike Corporation continues to refuse to take responsibility. Because of Nike's inaction, these workers have nothing, and have been reduced to surviving on rice with salt. We are calling on you to immediately e-mail Nike CEO, Phil Knight and demand that he deal with these workers in dignity and give them the justice they deserve by paying them their severance pay. The key point to make in your letter is that "Nike has a responsibility to ensure that Doson's workers receive their legally guaranteed severance pay." EMAIL Nike CEO, Phil Knight c/o his personal assistant: lisa.mckillips@nike.com and copy the letter to Maria Eitel, VP for Nike Corporate Responsibility at maria.eitel@nike.com. Please copy educate4justice@aol.com on the letter as well. For more information and background on this case: www.nikewages.org/action_03.html back to top 3.4 Bed & Bath Owners Skip Town, Leaving Workers Without PaySEND LETTERS AND EMAILS to tell the appropriate officials that they cannot abandon their workers The Thai Labour Campaign requests support in a campaign to help workers at a Thai factory (producing for such brands as Nike, Levi Strauss, Adidas, and Reebok) receive the back and severance pay they are owed. Approximately 350 workers from the Bed and Bath Prestige Company, located in Prapadaeng, have been demonstrating since October 21st when they showed up at work and found the factory locked. The husband-and-wife owners, Chaiyapat Phothikamjorn and Uayporn Songpornprasert vanished without giving their employees any warning, owing them a total of approximately US$ 400,000 (16 million baht) in back wages and compensation. For the past month these 350 workers have camped out at the offices of the Thai Ministry of Labour demanding that the government take action in this case. Workers have also called upon the brand name companies that were Bed and Bath clients to take action. The Bed and Bath workers, who ironically wore name tags with laminated copies of the Nike Code of Conduct, report that working conditions at the factory were in violation of a number of the labor standards included in the codes of companies they were producing for. They report working excessive forced overtime, and being given water laced with amphetamines to keep them going through working days that extended through the night. The workers also report wage cuts and violations by management of their right to maternity, personal and sick leave and a failure to make contributions to the Social Security Fund, which is a violation of Thai law. The most serious labor violation though is the one that the workers are currently facing. Closing down their workplace, leaving them unemployed, and with wages and compensation unpaid is a clear violation of Thai labour law as mandated by the Labour Protection Act of Thailand (1998). For more details on recent events relating to this case: Thai Labour Campaign (TLC) - www.thailabour.org WRITE LETTERS AND EMAILS - sample letters can be downloaded from the TLC website. back to top 4. ANNOUNCEMENTS4.1 Tainan Enterprises returns to El Salvador & recognizes textile workers' unionOn November 21, 2002 the El Salvadoran Syndicato de Trabajadores de Industrias Textiles (Textile Industry Worker's Union, STIT) came to an agreement with the Taiwanese textile company, Tainan Enterprises, to reopen its operations in El Salvador. Tainan left El Salvador due to union organizing, but must reopen as a unionized factory as per the new agreement. The Tainan campaign has been one of the most important struggles within El Salvador's maquila industry, and has given new strength to other workers' fight for union representation. Also, the campaign has succeeded in forcing Tainan to establish a compensation fund for the workers affected by the labor dispute. Several U.S.-based organizations were instrumental in pushing the campaign forward. The U.S./Labor Education in the Americas Project (www.usleap.org) was involved in the negotiations between Tainan and STIT, and helped establish communication between Tainan and its subcontractors. The Campaign for Labor Rights organized the international day of action. UNITE, United Students Against Sweatshops, the Campaign for Labor Rights, and U.S./LEAP supported STIT through direct pressure on GAP, charging the company of being responsible for the factory closings in El Salvador. For more information on the campaign against Tainan Enterprises, please contact the U.S. / Labor Education in the Americas Project - www.usleap.org back to top 4.2 Just Say No to the Plan Puebla PanamaThe Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) is a regional project of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which aims to build a network of transit corridors and maquiladora zones from the southern Mexican state of Puebla through most of Central America. In addition, the program hopes to push for further privatization of essential services such as water and electricity, giving multinational corporations a chance to expand their reach and increase their profits at the expense of local citizens. Community-based groups and workers, however, are resisting the attempts at privatization. In El Salvador for example, the STSEL electricity workers union succeeded in convincing opposition parties to unite behind an FMLN plan to reject a $40 million loan from the IDB for the System of Integration of Electricity of Central America (SIEPAC) megaproject. This project, an electrical superhighway from Guatemala to Panama that would result in the privatization of electricity generation, is one of the centerpieces of the PPP. Three hundred and twenty million dollars in IDB loans were approved in August 2002 by each country within the PPP region except for El Salvador. There, an STSEL strike and massive protests managed to delay the approval of the loan, forcing the IDB to either extend the deadline by one year - which is against its internal policies - or reroute the project through Honduras. Either way, the workers of the STSEL struck a blow against privatization, the PPP, and its successor, the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). For more information about the Plan Puebla Panama, please contact ACERCA - www.asej.org/acerca. JOIN the PPP informational listserve at acerca@sover.net back to top 4.3 Free Burma Coalition TourThe Free Burma Coalition is interested in organizing a speaking tour around the United States early next year possible with people from the Burma Labor Solidarity Organization. TO HELP SPONSOR THE TOUR: The Free Burma Coalition - www.freeburmacoalition.org back to top 4.4 Requests for representatives at Asian Social ForumFocus on the Global South is looking for someone who can represent the US student movement at the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad, India from January 2-7, 2003. The candidate must have excellent written and oral skills, and must be able to relate the campaigns in the United States to the Third World. FOR MORE INFORMATION OR SUGGESTIONS: Focus on the Global South (FOCUS) / c/o CUSRI, Chulalongkorn University / Bangkok 10330 THAILAND / tel. 662 218 7363 / fax 662 255 9976 / email N.Bullard@focusweb.org / www.focusweb.org back to top 4.5 After more than a decade, the UN's Charter on Migrant Workers comes into forceAfter its decades-long struggle to protect migrant workers, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) welcomed the entry into force of the UN Charter on Migrant Workers. This charter will help ensure that equal treatment for migrant workers in terms of jobs, wages, social security and union rights (ILO Conventions 97 and 143) is provided. Economic globalization and the associated development disparities in Southern countries are causing thousands of people to leave their homes every day to eke out a living in countries less poor than their own. For more information, please contact: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions - www.icftu.org back to top 5. RESOURCES5.1 Human Rights Watch releases briefing paper on labor rights and tradeIn a new report entitled "Labor Rights and Trade: Guidance for the United States in Trade Accord Negotiations", Human Rights Watch believes that "measures to protect workers' rights should be built into trade agreements to ensure that globalization does not come at the expense of human rights." TO OBTAIN A FULL COPY OF THE REPORT: Human Rights Watch - www.hrw.org/press/2002/10/laborrights-bck.htm back to top 5.2 Central American Popular Block Denounces the Free Trade Area of the AmericasComposed of social and popular organizations throughout El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Costa Rica, the Central American Popular Block is a "space in construction" with a diversity of perspectives and unified action. It stands in opposition to corporate-friendly policies such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), the Plan Puebla Panama (PPP), and the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). TO READ A FULL COPY OF THE BLOCK'S STATEMENT ON THE FTAA: Hemispheric Social Alliance - www.art-us.org/HSA.html back to top 5.3 New ILO Report Details Rising Unemployment in Latin AmericaSeventeen million Latin American people are out of work as the unemployment rate in the region has shot up to its highest level since 1980, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The rise could "destabilise the two big accomplishments of the 1990s; a shift toward democratic governments and greater participation in globalisation," said ILO regional director Augustin Munoz. TO OBTAIN A FULL COPY OF THE REPORT: International Labour Organization - send an email to washington@ilo.org back to top 5.4 Website for student activist groupsThere is a website that lists over 250 student activist groups, and you can search them by state, issue, or within a distance of where you live. If your group isn't listed, add it: http://www.campusactivism.org/addgroup.php The site also contains leaflets, essays, organizing guides, petitions, research papers, case studies, and other resources that student activists need to build strong organizations and fight winning campaigns. You can download them, or add your own resource to the site's collection: http://www.campusactivism.org/addresource.php There is also an events calendar that focuses on student/youth activist happenings. Feel free to post your own event (no local events): http://www.campusactivism.org/listevents.php http://www.campusactivism.org/addevent.php HOMEPAGE: http://www.campusactivism.org back to top 5.5 UNITE report targets Gap, Inc.Garment workers from Indonesia are appealing to consumers in the United States to boycott Gap products to protest labor conditions at factories in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America. ``We are treated like animals,'' Sudaryanti, a 23-year-old garment worker from a Gap factory in Indonesia, said Wednesday through an interpreter. ``We are abused if we do not work the way the supervisor wants.'' In a new 24-page study on working conditions in Gap factories, the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, known as UNITE, accused the Gap of poor health and safety conditions in factories contracted by the multibillion dollar company. The report also alleged union busting activities by management, and, in some instances, corporal punishment to force laborers to meet quotas. TO OBTAIN A FULL COPY OF THE REPORT: www.behindthelabel.org back to top 6. JOB LISTINGS6.1 Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR)It is the mission of the Campaign for Labor Rights (CLR) to mobilize grassroots support throughout the United States to promote economic and social justice by campaigning to end labor rights violations around the world. Through its campaigns, CLR strives to empower workers and promote the right to organize as a fundamental human right. CLR seeks a full-time Campaign Coordinator. Responsibilities include: collaborating with CLR partners throughout the world to choose anti-sweatshop campaigns where workers on the ground are organized and seek support; writing and emailing "Labor Alerts"; mobilizing the Rapid Action Network -- CLR's core activist base; writing a monthly index of labor rights information; organizing media work around anti-sweatshop campaigns. For a full description, visit www.clrlabor.org To apply, send your resume, cover letter, 2-3 page writing sample, and three references to Severina.Rivera@CLRlabor.org back to top 6.2 Labor NotesLabor Notes is a 20-year-old non-profit organization that produces a monthly publication, holds biennial conferences of 1,000 participants from around the world, and provides resources for union activists and others in the labor movement. Labor Notes is hiring a Writer/Organizer, whose duties include: editing, promotion, conference organizing, fundraising, as well as following, contacting, and organizing networks of African American activists in the labor movement. Also, Labor Notes is looking for an Administrative Assistant/Office Manager, whose duties include: handling Accounts payable and receivable, payroll, taxes and annual reports, bank deposits and reconciliation, financial reports, data entry, customer orders and daily mail, following postal regulations, ordering supplies, and maintaining files. For a full description, visit Labor Notes' website -- www.labornotes.org To apply, send resume and cover letter to Labor Notes / 7435 Michigan Ave. / Detroit, MI 48210 / tel. (313) 842-6262 / fax (313) 842-0227 / email: chris@labornotes.org back to top 7. SEASONAL SECTION: HOLIDAY SHOPPING7.1 I.B.E.G. compiles list of online union retailersStill can't find the right gift for that special someone? Wish you had a list of online union retail outlets? Well, look no further! Check out the links below - courtesy of the I.B.E.G. - for designer T's, fashion athletic wear, sweats, hoodies, denim jackets, scarves, caps, and more. And remember, supporting union retailers this year will help lengthen the list in years to come. www.nosweatapparel.com Los Angeles' first union cut and sew shop, SweatX, opened this year. They primarily sell wholesale T-shirts but have a few retail items available on line. www.sweatx.net This link will take you to Natchezs' on-line storefront providing Matterhorn's famous union made hiking and hunting boots. www.natchezss.com/boots.html Top quality denim jeans for men, women and children. www.diamondcutjeans.com At Excelled Sheepskin & Leather 1700 Burlington Ave., you'll find beautiful, sturdy and stylish leather coats, jackets, vests and pants, reasonably priced and all union made. www.leathercoatsetc.com Find 12 months of continuous inspiration with the Bread & Roses 2003 Social Justice calendar. l2 great quotes, from the Prophet Amos to the novelist Toni Morrison, and great contemporary artists' interpretations. Profits from the calendar go directly into arts programming for working people across the country. www.nosweatapparel.com The legendary independent book store with the all union work force. www.powells.com back to top Please send entries by December 31, 2002 for next month's edition of Campaign for Labor Rights' Monthly Index to: organize@clrlabor.org and type "January index" in the subject line. In Solidarity, Campaign for Labor Rights back to top |
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