US actor Danny Glover is arrested in Gaithersburg, Maryland, during a protest at the headquarters of food service giant Sodexo. Demonstrators protested what they claims are attacks by the company on the employees for trying to form a union.
Posted on 04/16/2010 7:29:27 PM PDT by csvset
US actor Danny Glover and 11 others were arrested Friday at a protest outside the US headquarters of French company Sodexo, which workers accuse of union-bashing and poor working conditions.
Glover was taken away in handcuffs along with the outgoing head of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Andy Stern, former Sodexo canteen cashier Terry Shelley and several others, after crossing a police line outside the US offices of the food services firm.
The action brought together hourly-paid workers, students, and even union representatives from Britain and France who sought to show support for US workers like Shelley, who said she was fired after becoming active in a trade union.
"We're here today to say no more to deplorable pay and working conditions," Glover told the crowd of around 300 as they shouted the protesters' rallying cry of "No Justice, No Pizza", a reference to the cafeteria workers who claim they are underpaid and receive few benefits from Sodexo.
"This is a global corporation with global responsibility and we are going to hold them accountable to that responsibility," said Glover, who has starred in movies including "2012" and "Escape from Alcatraz."
The rally was the latest in a series of protests and civil disobedience actions across the United States against Sodexo, which workers and trade unions accuse of paying an unlivable wage and offering poor benefits.
"Sodexo makes its money by turning good, high-paying, benefited, full-time jobs into low-wage, unbenefitted, part-time jobs," Stern told the rally.
French trade unionist Jean-Michel Dupire said Sodexo "has the means to respond to your demands but it's going into the wrong pockets."
The protesters burst into cheers and began chanting, in French, "Tous ensemble" or "All together."
The protesters said they mounted their series of actions after 16 Sodexo workers were laid off after trying to unionize or becoming involved in union activities.
But Sodexo officials told AFP that the company is not opposed to trade unions and insisted that the protest action was part of a smear campaign being waged by SEIU as it tries to "drive out other unions that have historically operated within the food service industry."
I will never watch his movies again
Dear France:
Keep them
Thank You,
America
Can’t we find someone to ‘bash’ Danny Glover and let’s just be done with it? Does NO ONE have a ‘Cousin Guido’ willing to do anything for a buck these days? ;)
This idiot’s absolutely DRUNK on Kommie Koolade. I think I saw almost all his movies at the theater in the 80’s. I want my money back.
It isn't just a slogan anymore. Communist organizing!
US actor Danny Glover is arrested in Gaithersburg, Maryland, during a protest at the headquarters of food service giant Sodexo. Demonstrators protested what they claims are attacks by the company on the employees for trying to form a union.
Hmmmmmm Libs protesting a FRENCH company....there’s a joke in there somewhere......LOL.....Guess it’s kind of like the Chicken and the Egg...(Who surrendered first?)
What does that company make that I might buy?
I would LOVE to purchase something from that company, just to piss Glover and his commie buddies off.
Hey, Danny.
Why don’t you move the hell to Cuba or China.
GTFOOMC and stop trying to ruin it, you “obscenely rich” jackass.
Glover is not all that bright. In fact he’s stupid and a total left winger.
Plus he’s ugly too. So is his mother who also wears combat boots.
I pretty much hate Hollywood and just about all actors.
Here is Bonnie Raitt and Danny Glover marching with him in a march in California a few years back: (he is on Danny's left)
Glover can't go and burn in hell for all eternity fast enough for me.
Let that be a lesson to you. Guess you have plenty of time to rabble-rouse now.
Careful. If my memory serves me correctly, the first photo is one of the 9/11 terrorists. Just because two people have Middle Eastern features and particular facial hair doesn’t mean they’re the same person.
No he is not.
Been there....done that.
If you want to rekindle that crap, let me know and I’ll dig up the FR threads.
Hm. Looks like we’re both wrong. That man wasn’t one of the 9/11 terrorists, as far as I can tell. He’s also not on the FBI’s Most Wanted List, as far as I can tell:
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm
OK, found the first guy here:
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/elshukrijumah.htm
Not sure he’s the same guy as the one in the photo with Glover ...
I don’t understand your comment. Are you acknowledging that they’re not the same person? Or are you saying that he is the same person?
Is this him?!
Same hairline and bent nose.
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