Workers are concerned that allowing outside contractors to operate key aspects of the facility could be dangerous, creating confusion and increasing the risk of an accident. Workers at the facility handle large amounts of hazardous and radioactive material on a regular basis and a small error could create a release that would put thousands of people at risk.

Locked out workers will be in Pittsburgh on December 5th! Come out to meet some of these workers and show your support!

Brown Bag Lunch—12:00 noon on Friday, December 5th in the Lobby Conference Room

Meet members of Local 7-669, hear stories from their fight for a fair contract at Honeywell, and find out how you can support their struggle! E-mail John Lepley (jlepley) to RSVP.

Acoustic Open Stage Benefit Show—8pm at Zano’s Pub House—3806 Acorn Street.

Live music, food and fun. Free admission, donations to the Local 7-669 Lockout Fund are greatly appreciated!
[Interested in playing a few songs, email Ray at groovyopenstage]
RSVP Online at Acoustic Open Stage Benefit Show

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Show Support for Immigrant Families

Don’t forget: Today (Friday, November 21) at noon, Vice President Fred Redmond will join with Pittsburgh LCLAA and other labor, faith and community organizations at a press conference in the lobby of the USW building to show support for President Obama’s decision to take executive action and extend temporary legal status and work authorizations to millions of undocumented workers and their families.

Please come to the lobby at noon to show your solidarity to those immigrant families in our community who will benefit from this long-awaited action. (If you can’t use your lunch break to attend, be sure to get your supervisor’s permission.)

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Let’s take the fight for worker’s rights to the next level!

REGISTER NOW for the third session of the Worker Justice Action Academy

In the third session of the Worker Justice Action Academy we will focus on developing and deepening our core organizing skills, putting people in motion, and building strong organizations. Build up your one-on-one organizing skills, develop leaders in your organization—or become a leader in your organization, learn tools to facilitate energetic and productive meetings.

Click here to see a preliminary agenda

We’ll also be joined by organizers from Ferguson, Missouri who are working on the front lines of the fighting against racism and police violence and for justice for Mike Brown.

In this session we’ll explore different organizing models and traditions and deepen our skills for taking on the serious work of organizing our base, developing leaders, building coalitions and winning power for workers and communities.

Who Should Come?

You! If you’re committed to the struggle for workers’ rights and economic justice and you want to take the fight to the next level, you don’t want to miss this event.

If you’re new to the struggle, this is a great chance to build some skills and get plugged into the exciting work that’s happening in our movement. If you’re a seasoned activist, this is a great opportunity to learn some new skills and to join the conversation about how to take our movement to the next level.

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Meeting Thursday!

Revised meeting schedule: Due to the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday next week, our monthly Local 3657 meeting for November will be held one week earlier than usual.

We will meet this Thursday, November 20, at 12:30 in the first-floor conference room. If you can’t make it to the meeting in person, you may follow along at the members’ section of our local website by clicking here.

Please note that because the Christmas holiday also falls on a Thursday, our December meeting likewise will be held a week early, on Thursday, December 18.

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We Are Students–Not Customers!

Rally Against Student Debt

Wednesday, October 19th
4:20pm
Schenley Plaza

4100 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219

Student debt in the United States totals over $1.2 trillion, and each year the number grows. Universities in Pittsburgh are among the most expensive in the country – and the world!

The “International Student Movement” has called for a global week of action…

Against the growing trends of debilitating student debt, budget cuts, and stagnating wages

In support of a growing global movement of students, faculty, adjunct and tenured professors, and community members that are demanding free education, living wages, green jobs, and a radical democratization of the organizational structures and decision-making processes that control our society.

Join the Pittsburgh Student Solidarity Coalition – PSSC and students from the University of Pittsburgh, Point Park, Chatham, Carnegie Mellon, CCAC, CAPA and more in Schenley Plaza on Wednesday, November 19th, to rally and declare that we are students, not customers!

http://studentsnotcustomers.wordpress.com/
#EducationNot4Sale
#1world1struggle

Fun Facts:

• 9% of the money the United States government spends each year on “defense” could cover every student’s tuition. ($62.6 billion for education / $682.478 billion for war)
• In 1979, a student working a minimum wage job 182 hours a year would be able to pay tuition. Today, a student would have to work 991 hours to accomplish the same.
• Have a “fun” fact to share? Let us know!