NYC: MLK Day March Against Wage Slavery
Jan 20 2008 03:08
Immediate Release:
IWW Starbucks Workers Union and IWW IU 460/640
Contact:
Daniel Gross, 917-577-1110
Stephanie Basile, 201-787-6035
Join the IWW in our annual MLK Day march!
Monday, Jan 21
11:00am Starbucks Headquarters - 5th Ave & 33rd St
11:45am Wild Edibles - 3rd Ave bet 35th & 36th
2:00pm Union Square
6:30pm Flaum Appetizing - 288 Scholes St (L Train to Montrose)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 while supporting over 1,100 striking workers in their fight for a union and justice on the job.
Starbucks baristas have demanded the company pay the same holiday premium on Martin Luther King Day that it pays on several other federal holidays.
Immigrant food warehouse workers have been met with fierce retaliation for exercising their right to form a union.
Dr. King stood firmly for labor rights leading the workers to call for a march on the federal holiday commemorating his birthday.
The march will start at the NY regional HQ of Starbucks reiterating the union's demand for Starbucks to treat MLK Day the way it treats several other federal holidays. Marchers will proceed to Wild Edibles, a seafood retailer and wholesaler, where workers have also joined the IWW and are being discriminated against because they are immigrants.
might be worth asking one of the admins to take your full names down.
haven't you left it a bit late to advertise a demo for, erm, today?
best of luck anyway