University of Michigan SDS and IWW need your help!

[ PLEASE PUBLISH FAR AND WIDE ]

Fellow Workers, Fellow Students, and Community Members,

On Monday, March 12th, at 10:00 AM, wobbly temp workers (EWIU620-IWW)
at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business will confront
management and present demands calling for health care access, wage
improvements, full-time work status, and an electable/recallable
manager, among other job-site improvements. This move brings to
fruition a months-long, under-the-radar campaign being carried out by
University of Michigan employees and the IWW to organize temporary
workers and the unrepresented at the University of Michigan; A campaign
greatly assisted by the contributions of the university chapter of
Students for a Democratic Society, who are conducting a labor
solidarity effort organize students on campus (many students being temp
workers themselves) in support of the campaign.

As part of that campaign, we in the IWW and in UM-SDS are asking other
groups around the country for some much needed solidarity. When we
present our demands on management tomorrow, we are starting a
nation-wide call-in and email-in to try and add a little more pressure
to the pot and bring the boss to the negotiating table.

The following scripts have been prepared for the email/phone-in, and
can similarly be adapted for email as well. Feel free to make
adjustments as needed, but remember to remain cordial, as we are trying
to pressure them to the negotiating table, not alienate them. If you
can send an email and make a call, you'll contribute twice as much.

Please address emails supporting the campaign as follows :
TO: edadams@umich.edu
CC: rjdolan@umich.edu, cvisel@umich.edu, greendan@umich.edu,
christyk@umich.edu

Please address your phone calls to :
1 734 763-6614

--[PHONE/EMAIL SCRIPT SNIPPET]---

Hi

My name is [INSERT NAME] and I am a student at [INSERT SCHOOL].

I'm calling today to express my support for University of Michigan
workers, the temps organizing campaign, and more specifically, the job
branch of the Education Workers Industrial Union at the University of
Michigan Ross School of Business.

The organizing drive is being closely observed internationally and
workers both on the inside and students in the community are providing
updates on the campaign daily.

I urge you to meet the temps at the bargaining table and begin
negotiations. I'll be following the campaign closely as it progresses.

Thank you.

--[SNIP]----

If you are interested in keeping up-to-date on the campaign, look for
new announcements and developments on the campaign's blog :

http://isupportthetemps.blogspot.com

Solidarity,

Kyle Taylor,
SDS, Ann Arbor
IWW, x358513