We Are One - Respect Our Rights!

On April 4, 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, where he had gone to stand with sanitation workers demanding their dream: The right to bargain collectively for a voice at work and a better life.
Today, that same demand is electrifying people across Indiana and all of America. It’s the demand of all people – black, white, Latino and Asian American: The right to join together for our common dreams.
 

Some great pictures from the Indianapolis Star of the Rally in Indianapolis. Take special note of picture #51 our own Gregor! It was cold but it was fun and inspiring. 

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From Jobs with Justice:

The attacks in Indiana are not just labor's fight; not just an attack on women; not just gays' and queers' fight, or immigrants standing alone. We are all standing together in seven days of solidarity, from the first fight to the last, against the hateful attack on Hoosier families and workers.

Attend as many of these Statehouse events as you can. Check out Central Indiana JwJ’s facebook page for more info

Wisconsin Workers are Under Paid

I am sure that you all know that the evidence is against the claim that Wisconsin workers are paid too much.  Click here for a great report which details how state workers are, in fact, underpaid in Wisconsin (and most other places, I would hazard a guess).

The SJVP-JwJ, Indiana AFL-CIO, NAACP, and the Sierra Club present a Right to Work for Less Legislative Update and Round Table disscusion on  Why Project Labor Agreements (PLA) are good for our communities. We will compare the South Bend Regional Airport Project as to the Private contractors ability to hire minority workers to the Project Labor Agreement at Salvation Army's Kroc Center Project. The panel will discuss the difference in having a PLA with the community or letting a private contractor try to do the right thing.

A look at the mounting protests throughout the state of Wisconsin — and spreading to Indiana and elsewhere — on issues affecting working people including their right to organize unions and make a living wage

On the panel:

• Barbara Fick, Associate Professor of Law, Notre Dame

• Janice Pilarski, Director, Saint Mary's College Justice Education Program

• Tony Flora, President, National Association of Letter Carriers

Report from the Economic Policy Institute about the effects of Right-to-Work laws.

The Economic Policy Institute has released a new report today investigating wages and benefits in so-called “Right to Work” states and states without these laws.  They find that wages are lower and workers are less likely to have employer sponsored health insurance and pensions in so-called “Right to Work” states than workers in states without such laws.  The report can be found here.
 

International Human Rights Day in Michiana Links Economy with Human Rights

Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010, 1:00PM-3:00PM
Location: Center for Civil Rights History, Indiana University at South Bend, 1040 W. Washington St.

Contacts:  Joe Carbone, Jobs with Justice:   574-292-8137.
Jackie Smith, Michiana Social Forum: 574-631-2640; 574-233-3928

All the Pizza You Can Eat!

Come and eat pizza and help us raise the funds to keep our meal ministry open.  We serve 600 meals a week to people who need it the most.
 
Where: Broadway Christian Parish, 1412 S. Carroll St., South Bend, IN 4613.
 
When:  Saturday, October 30th, 2010, between 4 and 8 pm.
 
Ticket:  $8.00 per adult.  $4.00 for kids 11 and under.
      * Kids in Halloween costumes eat free when accompanied by an