March for IWW Warehouse Workers in NYC

IWW And Make The Road By Walking Keep On Marching To End Slave Wages And Defend Workers' Right To Organize!

The SPUSA is working with the Labor Commission and the NYC Local to organize a contingent at this event. If you are interested in attending, please e-mail us at natsec@sp-usa.org

Join the IWW and Make the Road by Walking in a march through Bushwick to protest the widespread failure to pay immigrant workers minimum wage and overtime throughout Bushwick. In an attempt to rise out of sweatshop conditions, workers in the Brooklyn wholesale food distribution industry have engaged in strikes, protests, and filed lawsuits alleging minimum wage and overtime violations. Over 30 workers from three warehouses were fired in the past few months in retaliation for their union activities. These workers need your support as they struggle to enforce the minimum wage and demand their right to organize. At Associated Supermarket owners have committed egregious wage violations against their workers, including failure to pay minimum wage and overtime, and having some workers paid in tips only with absolutely no benefits. The march will begin at 9:30 am and proceed through the industrial areas of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Ridgewood. DRESS FOR COLD WEATHER!! For the latest updates and more information on the campaigns visit: www.wobblycity.org www.maketheroad.org For more info call Billy J Randal at 646 645-6284 or Tomer Malchi at 646-753-1167

Starting location: 9:30 am at Sunrise Plus / E-Z Supply, 48-01 Metropolitan Ave., Ridgewood, Queens. - take (L) train to Grand St. - walk east on Grand over bridge and onto Metropolitan Ave. - walk 6 blocks past fork in the road, Sunrise Plus / E-Z Supply will be on the left. (See street map at < http://tinyurl.com/3bre6b/> or < http://maps.yahoo.com/>) - people will be stationed at the (L) stop from 9:30 - 10AM to give directions Secondary meet-up / Press meet up: 11:30 - 11:45am at the Morgan stop of the L train. The March will wait for 15 minutes at the Morgan stop before marching on Handfat - Handyfat is 2 blocks south from the Morgan stop on Thames between Morgan and Bogart. At 1:00pm we will march from Handyfat to Associated Supermarket on Knickerbocker Ave.