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Fwd: [bostonslap] DIRECT ACTION agianst union busting Shaw's/Star Market
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jesse Barnes)
Tue Feb 26 13:46:45 2002
From: "Jesse Barnes" <jbarnes_two@hotmail.com>
To: peace-announce@mit.edu
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:43:03 -0500
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<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV><FONT face="Courier New">#### URGENT SOLIDARITY ACTION FOR STAR MARKET WORKERS #### <BR><BR>WHEN: 5:00 PM, Friday, March 1st <BR>WHERE: The Prudential Star Market at 800 Boylston St. <BR><BR>Friday, SLAP will confront the management and CEO of Shaw’s/Star Market to tell them that oppression in the workplace will be met </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">with our direct action in the streets and in their stores! <BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Stop Shaw’s/Star Market from union busting! <BR>Stop this multinational corporation from undermining our democratically created labor laws! <BR>Support Workers’ Rights! Another World Is Possible! <BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">WHEN WE UNITE WITH STAR MARKET WORKERS, <BR>WE WILL NOT BE DEFEATED! <BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face="Courier New">#### About the Shaw’s/Star Market campaign #### <BR><BR>J. Sainsbury, a British multinational and parent company of </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Shaw’s supermarkets, recently acquired the Star Market chain </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">of supermarkets. Star Market workers have been attempting to </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">organize a union under the same union that covers many Shaw’s employees, the United Food and Commercial Workers. <BR>Unfortunately, Star employees have met heavy-handed resistance </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">from managers who have sunk to coercive and illegal behavior </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">in order to crush the workers’ attempts at organizing. <BR><BR>The company’s actions have led to a formal complaint by the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">National Labor Relations Board, a federal government agency, </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">for violation of the employees’ right to organize. Help </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">support Star workers! <BR><BR>* Workers are told not to speak to union organizers. <BR><BR>* Workers are forced to attend meetings and watch videos that misrepresent the union and their rights to organize. <BR><BR>* Management performs surveillance on workers’ organizing </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">activity. <BR><BR>* Workers in other Shaw’s union stores are having their health benefits held hostage by management in order to make an example </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">of those who are brave enough to fight for a decent living. <BR><BR>#### About SLAP #### <BR><BR>Since its inception nearly a year and a half ago, the Student </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">Labor Action Project has played an integral role in student </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">activism and offered solidarity with local labor struggles. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">From the streets of Quebec and New York to the classrooms and communities of Boston, we challenge the corporate tyrannies </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">that seek to undermine our unions, our democracy, and a decent <BR>standard of living. In the tradition of non-violent resistance </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">that Dr. Martin Luther King espoused, we will take to the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">streets to demand justice for workers, living wages, and the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New">right to organize!</FONT></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <a href='http://go.msn.com/bql/hmtag_etl_EN.asp'>http://explorer.msn.com</a>.<br></html>
