Events
Three day training weekend focuses on skill building in communications and the organizing conversation.
Three day training weekend focuses on skill building in communications and the organizing conversation.
Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Van Dyke Hall 211 on college ave
Description.On Sunday April 11th, Rutgers United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) will be bringing two workers from Honduras to tell their story about the tragedies caused by Nike to the people of Honduras because of Nike's human rights violations.
On January 2009, Nike closed down two factories, Vision Tex and Huggers, in honduras without warning, leaving almost 2000 workers off the job. Many of these workers are single mothers struggling to survive. As legally obligated by the government of Honduras, Nike owed these workers over $2.5 million in severance pay.
It is now April 2010 and Nike has still not paid its workers even a dime. Not only that, new reports by the Workers Rights Consortium (that Rutgers belongs to) state that the factories had failed to provide any healthcare to its employees even though the workers themselves paid for it every month. This resulted in deaths in each factory.
We need you all to come out and hear their tragic stories and demand that Rutgers cut its contract with Nike if Nike won't pay their workers. President McCormick Needs to understand the immediate need for Rutgers to Act.
Nike makes in revenue in an hour what they owe these workers.
This meeting will feature an election of delegates to the AFT convention in July.
URA members should have received a letter at home with a notice of the election, but Kathyrn Neal's name was inadvertently omitted from the list of nominees. Here are the candidates: Audrey Boyd (Douglass), Janice Di Lella (Livingston), Carolyn Foote (Newark), Dorian Grumet (Cook), Kathy Licinski (College Ave.), Kathryn Neal (Douglass), Christine O'Connell (Off Campus), Theresa O'Neill (Newark), Helen Pirrello (Busch), Joyce Sagi (Cook), Darlene Smith (Newark)and Tracy Swan (Camden).
AFT Rutgers State Budget Hearing
Tuesday, April 13, 5:30 pm
Graduate Student Lounge, 126 College Avenue (behind Au Bon Pain Restaurant), New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Governor Christie’s budget cuts are hurting Rutgers!
If enough of us get on board, we can tip the balance in favor of higher education!
Thursday, April 15, 2010
3:00 p.m. open session – 3:05 p.m. closed session – 4:00 p.m.
Camden Campus Center
326 Penn Street
Camden, New Jersey
