Wal-Mart Shopping Death; Subway Subs Farmworker Protest; People's Bailout Now

WBAI Radio's Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report
Produced & Hosted by Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Monday, December 1, 2008, 7 – 8 PM EST, over 99.5 FM ****************************************
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated,
with
Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW

Jared's Waist Maybe Shrinking at Subway's Restaurants, But Wages and Working Conditions Are Also Slim for Subway's Tomato Pickers
with
Leonel Perez, Member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
and
Marc Rodriguez, Student/Farmworker Alliance

People's Bailout Now!!National Week of Action December 7-13,
with
Laura McSpedon, North East Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice
Fran Tobin, Mid-West Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice

Play or Download

click below for more information or to post to this blog




Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death: Its Record of Endangering Workers & Consumers Unabated,
with
Pat Purcell, Director, Special Projects, Local 1500, UFCW

Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York died after he was trampled by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store, subsequent to being whipped into a frenzy of bargain hunting by the retail giant, who failed to protect its staff and consumers from the expected crush.
********************
Jared's Waist Maybe Shrinking at Subway's Restaurants, But Wages and Working Conditions Are Also Slim for Subway's Tomato Pickers
with
Leonel Perez, Member, Coalition of Immokalee Workers
and
Marc Rodriguez, Student/Farmworker Alliance

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers launched a national protest calling on Subway Restaurant, the world's largest sandwich chain and the biggestfast-food buyer of Florida tomatoes to improve wages and working conditions for those who pick the tomatoes. Their national protest will culminate with a march from the United Nations to a local Subway Restaurant on International Human Rights Day, December 10th.
********************
People's Bailout Now!!National Week of Action December 7-13,
with
Laura McSpedon, North East Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice
Fran Tobin, Mid-West Regional Coordinator, Jobs with Justice

The Wall Street bailout has proven to be a give-away to the same financial bigwigs that have been pocketing millions while wrecking the real economy. Little or no benefit has gone to the working people and the real economy. By the time Obama is sworn in, hundreds of thousands of additional people will lose their jobs, lose their homes and lose their health care. Jobs with Justice is calling for a "People's Bailout" that fixes the real economy, restores a voice for working people in challenging corporate greed, provides emergency help to the victims of the crisis and begins building a fair economy that works for all, addressing crises in housing, health care,jobs, retirement security and the environment.
********************************************************