Posted on 09/24/2003 9:48:58 AM PDT by chance33_98
Doing the Work of America: Food and Commercial Workers Mobilize for Immigrant Worker Rights
9/24/03 10:52:00 AM
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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook
Contact: Carl Ariston or Donna McDonald, 402-342-5417 both of UFCW Local 271
News Advisory:
WHAT:
Historic National Freedom Ride to Stop in Omaha -- Saturday, September, 27th
Community Festival and Rally -- 5:30 p.m. at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at 24th and Lake Streets in Omaha
The United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) and the Omaha community are mobilizing to protect the rights of immigrant workers. A coalition of Omaha Together, One Community (OTOC), immigrant assist organizations, student organizations, local businesses, elected officials, and local labor leaders will welcome the national Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride in Omaha on Saturday, September 27th.
SPECIAL -- PRE-EVENT BACKGROUND BRIEFING
For reporters interested in the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, September 26, 2003 at UFCW Local 271, 2502 Leavenworth St. in Omaha. Immigrant workers, community leaders and union representatives will be available.
The Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride draws on the experience of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Building bridges to the broader community and drawing strength from the struggles of the past connects today's immigrant to a support network that can mobilize the social and political power to open the eyes, move the heart and change the laws of America to recognize the rights of immigrant workers. Immigrant workers now comprise much of the workforce in Nebraska's meat and food processing industries.
The rally in Omaha will focus on a community-wide, industry-wide organizing effort in the area's meatpacking industry. From organizing soccer leagues to unions, community and UFCW activists are building a model for empowering immigrant workers and winning community support. The effort has lead to organization and a union contract to immigrant workers at three Omaha-area plants.
The Omaha events will culminate on Sunday with an outdoor ecumenical prayer service at 9 a.m. at 24th and N Street (La Plaza de la Raza). The Freedom Ride send-off will be conducted by local religious leaders in five languages.
WHO: Omaha religious leaders, national and local labor leaders including UFCW International Union, immigrant workers, Mayor Mike Fahey, elected officials, and other community leaders
WHAT: Rally and community festival to welcome the Immigrant Worker Freedom Ride to Omaha. Music, food and a local children's group presenting their interpretation of "I Have a Dream."
WHEN: Saturday, September, 27, 2003 at 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial at 24th & Lake Streets in Omaha
For more information, contact Carl Ariston or Donna McDonald at UFCW Local 271, 402-342-5417 or email press@ufcw.org
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The sheeple Baaaaaa on
Mexican "professionals" (nurses , doctors engineers etc are covered under Nafta..
As we see on this forum, the ones that have already been out sourced or replaced by cheaper foreign workers see it , but it is too late.
People in that position who aren't politically aware probably don't consider the illegals to be a threat to their livelihood. How wrong they are!
It is not being politically aware , it is pride (they THINK ) they are irreplaceable...
They have closed 3 nursing programs in my area to bring shortages where there should be none.
My RN Daughter worked with both Mexican and Canadian nurses. They are here , but they fly under the Radar
Our hospital here in Sierra Vista, AZ (15 miles from the U.S./Mexico border) is writing off the cost of treating illegals/uninsureds as bad (uncollectable) debt. They come in and apply for AHCCCS (AZ Medicaid) with false info, they are treated, and when AHCCCS sends back a denial, there is no way to track down the patient for payment.
This practice has caused the closure of all but one trauma center in Tucson and all but one OB ward (ours) in Cochise County...
And it isn't limited to the border states, is it?
Maybe someday I can get treated at the same hospital our glorious politicians do.
Like I said, what to do, what to do......
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