Brookyln, Jan. 20: Immigrant Workers Fighting Back!
Submitted on Thu, 01/18/2007 - 3:26am
Saturday at 11am meet up at Make The Road by Walking - Menahan and Myrtle .
March with us down Knickerbocker Ave - first stop Associated supermarket and then to Handyfat!
In an attempt to rise out of sweatshop conditions, immigrant workers in Brooklyn have engaged in strikes, Boycotts protests, and filed lawsuits alleging systematic wage and overtime violations.
Join Make the Road by Walking and the IWW in a march through Bushwick to protest the widespread failure to pay immigrant workers minimum wage and overtime throughout Bushwick. At Associated Supermarket owners have committed egregious wage violations against their workers, including failure to pay minimum wage and overtime, and having some workers paid in tips only with absolutely no benefits. At Handyfat, a warehouse that distributes restaurant supplies, 22 workers were illegally fired over the holidays for organizing a union with the IWW and demanding back pay for years of failure to pay minimum wage and overtime.
We will be meeting up at 11AM at Menahan and Myrtle in Bushwick
For more info on Associated visit www.maketheroad.com
For more info on the IWW warehouse workers check out www.iww.org or www.wobblycity.org
To get involved email: [email protected]
Directions:
By Subway
Brooklyn-bound L Train
Take the L to the Myrtle-Wyckoff stop. Walk down Myrtle Avenue on the same side of the street as the Kentucky Fried Chicken (underneath the train tracks). Continue to Grove Street four blocks down and take a left. Make the Road by Walking is about halfway down the street on the right.
Queens-bound M Train
Take the M to the Knickerbocker stop. Walk down Myrtle Avenue under the train tracks on the right side of the street; there will be a Citibank on the left. Walk three blocks to Grove and take a right. Make the Road by Walking is about halfway down the street on the right.
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