Following is a brief roundup of important articles and information for your weekend reading:
Thursday
morning's unveiling of the House health care bill
represents a decisive milestone reached in the fight to
ensure access to quality, affordable health care for all
Americans.
All
workers benefit from a strengthening of workplace rights
for immigrants. In fact, undocumented workers’
ability to improve their own working conditions would
benefit all workers by making jobs more desirable, which
translates into more jobs that can support a
middle-class standard of living.
Protestors
blow the whistle on what they say amounts to
mistreatment of Fred Meyer workers. Nearly a hundred
members of several different unions marched in front of
the Fred Meyer store on South 3rd Street in Bend on
Tuesday, as the effects from an incident 200 miles away
were felt locally. Three union representatives were
arraigned in Washington County court after being
arrested and charged with criminal trespassing at a
Hillsboro Fred Meyer. The store called police after the
reps wouldn't leave when asked.
More
than 200 union members rallied across the street
from Grain Processing Company in Muscatine,
Iowa demanding that company leaders allow them to
return to work while they try to reach a new contract.
Workers have been locked out for 15
months.
Wednesday night
local retail employers in New York city, policy experts,
community and union leaders debated the issues faced by
grocery store employees and grocery store operators in a
recovering economy. The discussion was moderated by Mimi
Rosenberg of WBAI's Building Bridges, and
tackled the ways in which successful grocery businesses
can also be community-leading employers.
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