[Sosfbay-discuss] women workers organizing an independent union

[Jim Doyle]

Monday, March 12
7:00 P.M.
Teamsters¹ Union Hall
1452 North 4th Street, San Jose
(North of Gish Road, across from the Fourth Street Bowl)
     
             SUPPPORT THE SEAFOOD WORKERS' JUSTICE CAMPAIGN!
      Do you know where your seafood comes from? Very likely the squid and calamari that you eat is from off the coast of Santa Rosalia in the state of Baja California Sur, Mexico.
   
Come and hear from the women workers organizing an independent union in the seafood export processing industry there! 96 workers, who organized to protest bad conditions such as 12+ hour shifts and miserable pay, were fired by Han Jin Mexico for organizing, and they need your help.
      
In addition to these dynamic and tenacious organizers,  David Bacon
will lead a discussion of immigrant rights.  He is a top ranking labor writer and photo journalist.   

His new book, COMMUNITIES WITHOUT BORDERS and a recent Nation Magazine editorial ³Workers, Not Guests,² have drawn nationwide
attention. Our walls will display some of David¹s unique photo images. They speak new volumes about the migrant worker experience.

Monday, March 12
7:00 P.M.
Teamsters¹ Union Hall
1452 North 4th Street, San Jose
(North of Gish Road, across from the Fourth Street Bowl)
     
The seafood industry is expanding rapidly as well as using up our
natural resources. We have an opportunity at this moment to unionize the industry and to protect the oceans before this industry grows even bigger.

 www.enlaceintl.org.

  The workers are supported by SINTTIM and Enlace.
SINTTIM  (Sindicato Independiente de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras de la Industria Maquila)  the Independent Union of Workers in the Maquiladora Industry.  
It is the only independent union in Baja California Sur, Mexico.

The leaders and supporters of SINTTIM began organizing together and
succeeded in achieving legal recognition and collective bargaining
agreements in the Baja California maquiladora (export anufacturing)
industry over twenty years ago.
     
Enlace is a strategic alliance of worker centers and unions that
organize low-wage workers in the U.S. and Mexico. They are among the most respected and effective groups tackling issues of social and economic justice in an increasingly globalized world.

www.enlaceintl.org * info at enlaceintl.org * 213-673-2224 (LA) * 503-295-6466
Event endorsed by the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council
408-266-3790 * ORGANIZE at ATWORK.ORG
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