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Tell Smithfield: Do Right By Your Workers
August 08, 2007

takeactionround75_100506_172257 Grisly conditions, crippling injuries, poverty wages—this is what workers face every day at the Smithfield pork processing plant in Tar Heel, NC.  As workers try to stand up to Smithfield and organize a union to fight for basic rights on the job, they are met with brutal force, harassment, and strenuous resistance.  Tell Smithfield to clean up its act.

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Tell Hershey's to Ask Blue Diamond to Quit its Tricks
August 08, 2007
hersheys_110606_161032 Blue Diamond runs the world’s largest almond processing plant—and has also produced a self-described “aggressive union-avoidance campaign” against its workers.  This Halloween, ask Hershey's—one of Blue Diamond’s biggest customers and suppliers of Halloween treats—to ask the company to quit its tricks and pledge to not interfere with its employees' union organizing efforts!

» Write to Hershey's now!
 
Tell President Bush: Protect Workers, not Business Interests
August 08, 2007
eyelogo100pix The Bush-appointed National Labor Relations Board recently issued decisions in the "Kentucky River" cases that could strip an estimated eight million workers of their rights to form and join unions.  The very agency that is supposed to protect a worker's basic right to form a union has once again moved to protect the interests of big business.

» Tell President Bush what you think about this latest attack on workers' rights.
 
Verizon Wireless' Anti-Union Network
August 08, 2007
verizon-phone-white3_crop_062906_170404 Verizon Wireless, one of the nation’s most popular wireless providers, is also gaining a reputation as one of the most anti-union.  The company has aggressively fought efforts by its employees to form unions to improve their workplace.

Call out Verizon Wireless on its behavior.  Urge the company to let their workers have a free and fair chance to form a union.

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Raising the Bar
August 08, 2007
cingular100sitetron Cingular Wireless takes a different stand on workers’ rights – unlike its competitors or other major corporations, Cingular does not interfere with the rights of its employees to choose whether or not they want to form a union.

Thank Cingular for raising the bar for workers’ rights.

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Tell Blue Diamond to Have a Heart
August 08, 2007
bluediamondhearts125Roses are Red, Workers are Blue…

Blue Diamond Growers operates the world’s largest almond process plant and has run – in its own words – “an aggressive union avoidance campaign.”  Already three employees have been fired for supporting the union – Blue Diamond workers deserve better!

Ask Blue Diamond to have a heart and stop cracking down on union supporters!

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