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Absolut Picket at Chi-Lake Liquors 5/24

Help us turn away customers, demand management pay a living wage to all of the workers at Chicago Lake Liquors, and demand they stop union-busting!

MEET AT NW CORNER OF POWDERHORN PARK at 7:00PM

Background of picket:

On the week of April 1st, five workers at Chicago-Lake Liquors were fired for respectfully asking management for raises. This is wrong and illegal. All workers have the right to come together to improve their job conditions, and these firings are a clear attack on their rights and dignity.

On April 6th, the five fired workers announced their membership with
Food and Retail Workers United (FRWU), an organizing committee of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union.

We are demanding that management:
-Rehire the 5 fired workers
-Pay a living wage to all employees
-Stop union busting

Short video of April 6 thpicket: http://youtu.be/37N73QAcQr8

Short video of April 13th picket: http://youtu.be/B04Uc7weqS8

CityPages coverage: http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2013/04/chicago_lake_liquors_employees_petition_for_raises_five_fired_two_days_later.php

IWW Picket of Chicago-Lake Liquors 4/13/13

MEET AT NW CORNER OF POWEDERHORN PARK (32nd Ave & 10th St) at 7:45PM

On the week of April 1st, five workers at Chicago-Lake Liquors were fired for respectfully asking management for raises. This is wrong and illegal. All workers have a right to come together to improve their job conditions, and these firings are a clear attack on their rights and dignity.

On April 6th, the five fired workers announced their membership with Food and Retail Workers United (FRWU), an organizing committee of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) labor union.

Join us for the second picket of Chicago-Lake, demanding that management

-Rehire the 5 fired workers
-Pay a living wage to all employees
-Stop union busting

Short video of last week’s picket and interview with one of the fired organizers
http://youtu.be/37N73QAcQr8

City Pages article on the situation
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2013/04/chicago_lake_liquors_employees_petition_for_raises_five_fired_two_days_later.php

Press release from last week
http://tcorganizer.com/2013/04/06/iww-liquor-store-workers-fired-for-union-activity/

Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/events/219183161539506/

Picket Event at Sisters’ Camelot

We apologize for this information being so last minute.

TOMORROW, April 1, 2013

9:15 AM in front of the entrance to Sisters’ Camelot (right at the intersection of 37th AVENUE & 27th STREET, in the Seward Neighborhood)

PICKET EVENT. Come down and help us make a showing of people in support of the Striking I.W.W. Sisters’ Camelot Canvassers Union.

We will be gathered with signs as the Sisters’ Camelot Managing Collective walks past us to have their 10 AM weekly decision-making meeting.

We encourage as many people who can make it out on this Monday morning to come show support for us and solidarity with us. We ask that people not be rude or abrasive towards the collective members, but remind them with our presence that the community is watching and waiting for them to do the right thing. The basic message is still the same: REHIRE THE FIRED UNION MEMBER & NEGOTIATE WITH THE UNION.

We will then walk quietly and respectfully in to the Sisters’ Camelot office and deliver a stack of hand-written letters from people in the neighborhood urging them to rehire the fired worker and negotiate with the union. We will also deliver a printed copy of the Community Statement of Support for our union with the long list of names who have signed on to it.

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Sisters’ Camelot Phone & Email Zap!

The Sisters’ Camelot Canvass Union are doing a phone and email zap on the Sister’s Camelot collective. There are three phone numbers and one email to contact.

Please call Eric Gooden (SC Collective member) at 612-823-0647
Please call Dave Senn (SC Collective member) at 612-296-0677 <— Twin Cities people only for this guy!
Please call the SC Collective office number at 612-746-3051
Please email sisterscamelot@gmail.com

Please tell them to:

1. Rehire the fired union member.
2. Negotiate with the union.

Below is a sample email that can also be used as a script for calling as well.

*Dear Sisters’ Camelot,

I’m contacting you about the canvassers’ strike that’s been happening. I love the work your organization does, but, I’m deeply disappointed that you fired a union member, and now you won’t rehire him and negotiate in good faith with your workers. It’s shameful that your workers have been on strike for a month, and you still haven’t rehired the worker and come to an agreement with the union. I urge you to stop and reconsider your position. Rehire the fired worker, negotiate with ALL of the union, end this conflict and get back to the work you do that we all love and believe in.

Sincerely,*

Please call them every day, multiple times a day, and don’t stop until they agree to the union’s two demands.

Sisters’ Camelot Canvass Union Open House Vol. 2

The Sisters Camelot Canvass Union was formed by the workers who raise funds in order to make possible the programs of the organization we love. We want to do this in an atmosphere where our work is respected, supported, and we are given the trust to use our knowledge and experience to better further its mission.

Since Friday, March 1st, the Sisters Camelot Canvass Union has been on strike until the collective which manages the organization decides to sit down and all of us in good faith.

We are holding an open house so that the striking workers can explain their stories and reasons for for unionizing and going on strike and answer any questions that you might have.

This is the second open house that we have held for the public. The first was a success, so we are holding another in the hopes of bringing out more members of the community to learn about this struggle.

Sunday, March 24 @ 7PM
Mayday Bookstore
301 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55454

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