AMERICAN LABOUR-CALIFORNIA:

BAY AREA IWW PROTEST:

Tomorrow, January 21, members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) who are in contract negotiations with Curbside Recycling in Berkeley California will be holding a protest rally against the demands of management. Molly urges her readers in the Bay Area to attend. Tell 'em Molly sent you. Here's the notice from the IWW website.

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Bay Area IWW Labor Protest - Recycling Workers Say "NO!" To Management's Proposed Cuts!

- Thursday, Jan 21, 2010
The IWW is engaged in contract discussions with the Ecology Center, which runs Curbside Recycling - the outfit that picks up recyclable trash in Berkeley. They have presented a series of demands for draconian cut backs.

This includes demanding that the workers pay 20% of the cost of their health insurance premiums. Their position is that everywhere else such cuts are being instituted and they have to do the same. Our position is that these cuts have to be stopped somewhere, or, to paraphrase Harry Truman, "the cuts stop here." At the same time, Buyback - the recycling yard that is on the same property as Curbside and also under IWW contract - has announced that they will be laying off a worker, a first there.

The IWW is holding a "safety meeting" rally to protest these twin events. This will be in their yard at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21. The yard is on 2nd Street, just north of Gillman in north Berkeley (near the freeway).

We are urging all union members and supporters, students and community members to participate.