Philadelphia Jobs with Justice: Noontime Strikers' Rally in Center City

Friday, August 19, 2011

Noontime Strikers' Rally in Center City

An estimated 2,000 striking CWA Local 13000 workers and their allies marched through Center City Philadelphia on Friday, August 19, and rallied in front of the Verizon offices at 900 Arch Street. Along with a spirited showing from CWA members, there was a strong outpouring of support from Jobs with Justice, Philadelphia Council AFL-CIO, Teamsters, Laborers, PASNAP, SEIU, Unite HERE, AFSCME, AFGE, teachers unions, and others.

Striking CWA members and their allies wall-to-wall in the 900 block of Race Street in Center City.

Philly Jobs with Justice will have a regular picket in solidarity with striking CWA workers at the Verizon Wireless store, 1115 Market Street (Reading Terminal), on Saturdays and Sundays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm (or longer). Please stand with us!

Contact Warren with any questions: solidarity@phillyjwj.org -or- call/text 215 264-3553.

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The JwJ Pledge

During the next year, I will be there at least five times for someone else's fight, as well as my own. If enough of us are there, we'll all start winning.

STAND UP for our rights as working people to a decent standard of living.

SUPPORT the right of all workers to organize and bargain collectively.

FIGHT for secure family-wage jobs in the face of corporate attacks on working people and our communities.

ORGANIZE the unorganized to take aggressive action to secure a better economic future for all of us.

MOBILIZE those already organized to join the fight for jobs with justice.

Volunteer

Jobs With Justice is looking for Volunteers! Interested in workers' rights? Interested in fighting for social justice work? We need volunteers to help fight for the rights of workers in Philadelphia, as part of a broader social justice struggle. We need people to help distribute handbills, with data entry, writing articles and letters, mailings, photocopying, and much more.

If you want to engage with Jobs with Justice and be part of the solution, please be in touch!

Contact:
director@phillyjwj.org

Student Labor Action Project

As Philadelphia students and youth we commit ourselves to the struggles of working class people in this city and to the fight against all forms of oppression including racism, sexism, and homophobia. We stand for equality, the rights of workers, justice, and democracy. We are against the corporatization of education and aim to make our universities fully accountable to the communities they were built to serve. We believe that direct action wins working class families better working conditions, affordable health care, paid sick days. SLAP provides dedicated student leaders with the skills and tools necessary to affect meaningful change for workers on our campuses and in our communities through trainings, events, and actions.

Contact:

Paul Prescod

piknrol@aol.com