Sign petition: http://tinyurl.com/by5r5su

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/RedeemGeorgeStinneyJunior

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http://j4gisfilipinoworkers.wordpress.com/

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Eighteen years ago, as a single parent struggling to make ends meet, Alan White landed a job at a foundry in Buffalo, New York. The pay was great. He thought he was set. Three years ago, he went to a doctor and after a series of tests was told that he will die from exposure to silica in his workplace.

“I was ready and willing to give all to my work.  But I never realized that that included my life,” Alan noted in testimony in front of a Senate committee. “At work we focus on safety, but the company focuses on obvious safety hazards. They tell us to be careful of slips and trips and mind the heat. They tell us to lift properly and be careful of traffic in the plant. But, they did not tell us of the unseen dangers. They never told me about silica and the health effects that breathing it can cause.”

Today, this Steelworker is still making ends meet at the foundry, but he took a significant pay cut in order to work in an area where there is less silica exposure. As a new grandfather, Alan knows he will not be able to run with his grandchild like he had hoped. Even simple tasks like walking and talking on a cell phone are difficult. The outlook is downhill from here.

Alan is one of thousands of Steelworkers and 1.7 million U.S. workers who are exposed to silica dust each year.  All run the risk of developing silicosis, lung cancer and other debilitating diseases. It does not have to be this way. A proposed workplace standard on silica dust exposure from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has been delayed for nearly two years as the Office of Management and Budget reviews it.

Please help spur action on controlling this deadly workplace hazard by signing a White House petition urging the Obama Administration to move forward with the silica dust standard.

We need to reach 25,000 signatures by February 11. Please forward this message widely!

http://tinyurl.com/azvquow

Thank you,

The United Steelworkers

To find out more about the USW, please visit our website at www.usw.org.

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Petition: http://tinyurl.com/apowdq9

http://www.bradleymanning.org/

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From the New York State AFL-CIO:

In the next few days we are going to drop off over 5,861 post cards to Mayor Bloomberg signed by concerned parents and citizens. Can you help us hit 8,000 by then, one for every driver and matron on strike for kids safety? Sign now at: http://nysaflcio.org/Safety1st/

You can also help by:

1. Stopping by a picket location near you to show your support.
2. Calling the Mayor at 1-888-833-7428 or Texting “Safety1st” to 877877

Bloomberg Snubs Offer to Suspend Strike: http://tinyurl.com/a2t7fpj

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AFT Local 1181: http://atu1181.org/

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Parents To Improve School Transportation (PIST): http://www.pistnyc.org/

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Sign petition: http://tinyurl.com/a7zcgrh

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Palermo Workers Union

Informational Picket

1 p.m.

Pick ‘n Save, 605 E. Lyon St.

(at E. Lyon and Van Buren)

Saturday, February 9

Milwaukee based Roundy’s Corp, owner of Pick n’ Save stores, is one of the largest distributors of Palermo’s Pizza, including the “Classics” brand sold at Milwaukee area stores.

Palermo workers have been seeking an in-person meeting with Roundy’s executives to discuss working conditions at the Palermo factory, and the illegal anti-union campaign waged against workers.

On the picket line at Palermo’s June 10, 2012

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7 p.m.    Wednesday,   February 6,  2013

Milwaukee LGBT Community Center

1110 N Market Street – 2nd floor

Courtyard entrance

Hear leading Honduran LGBT activist Jose “Pepe” Palacios give an eyewitness account of his movement and the challenges it faces. Palacios is a founding member of the Honduran LGBT group, Diversity Movement in Resistance (MDR), and a member of the steering committee of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP). Included in the program will be a short film of masked gunman firing at a human rights delegation to the country this past September.

Following a 2009 U.S.-supported coup in Honduras, the country won the dubious distinction of having the highest murder rate in the world. Coup supporters used the overthrow of the elected government to settle scores against social justice  movements and the poor.

Contrary to stereotypes about predominately Roman Catholic countries, Honduras has a vibrant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) movement which is among the leading forces organizing against the coup regime. LGBT communities there have joined indigenous peoples, African descendants, farmers, teachers, women, students, and trade unionists in numerous, massive, non-violent street demonstrations of resistance.

Since the coup, 87 LGBT Hondurans – including top leaders like Walter Trochez and LIBRE candidate Erick Martinez Avila – have been murdered in a systematic campaign of targeted hate crimes and political assassination.  In the run up to this November’s first contested election since the coup, many fear that the violence and hate crimes will get even worse.  As recently as January 13, 2013, Erik Vidal Martinez, a leader and defender of LGBTQ rights was unlawfully detained and assaulted by Honduran national police.

Cosponsored by: Milwaukee LGBT Community Center – Anti-Violence Program, Latin America Solidarity Committee, Peace Action Milwaukee & Honduras Solidarity Network.  For more information email:  Babette Grunow babette37@sbcglobal.net or Anne David adavid@mkelgbt.or.

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http://tinyurl.com/b66bp4c

12:30 p.m., Student Union, 2200 E Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee

Join the UWM Boycott Coalition for Worker’s Rights as we rally to show the UWM administration that we won’t stop fighting until Palermo’s Pizza is completely off campus. There will be speakers and a skit at the rally and, afterwards, there will be a march around campus. Location of rally TBA.

Palermo workers and supporters at a Sept. 12, 2012 informational picket at Sendik’s grocery store in Shorewood, WI.

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