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24th July 2015, 22:28
RALLY in SUPPORT of CAN TV Workers! - next Friday, July 31, 10 am at 322 S. Green St., Chicago
Labor, media, and community activists:
Please forward widely this PDF of the NABET Local 41 flyer below, and come to the rally on Friday, July 31.
Labor Beat has joined the campaign to support the organizing efforts of over 2/3 of CAN TV's employees. Labor Beat has been a non-profit public access programmer/user of CAN TV since the late 80s with our weekly show on CAN TV Channel 19. After learning about CAN TV's employee's efforts to organize a union there, we wrote a letter to the Chicago Access Network board calling on them to recognize the union automatically. Apparently, that is not happening as of this date.
So, we hope to see you at the rally on July 31.
In solidarity,
Larry Duncan
Labor Beat co-producer
www.laborbeat.org
773-392-0908
============== NABET Local 41 Call============
====== Labor Beat statement to CAN board Chairperson, sent July 13, 2015 ===========
Alie Kabba, Chairman
Chicago Access Network
322 S. Green St.
Chicago, IL 60607
Dear Chairman Kabba,
Committee for Labor Access (producer of the Labor Beat series on CAN TV since the late 80s) has recently learned that the majority of employees at CAN TV have signed cards to have NABET Local 41 represent them.
Labor Beat/CLA fully expects CAN TV to recognize NABET 41 and to agree to collectively bargain with its employees.
CAN TV has from its beginning been based upon democratic principles of empowering Chicago’s disenfranchised communities. Workers who have no other resource than to sell their labor are among the most disenfranchised.
Recognition of a union at CAN TV will be critical for the future development of Chicago Access Network as a community-oriented organization. This will protect its reputation as a defender of communities denied access to control of their lives, both in their neighborhoods and at their places of work. Just as working people are entitled to their say-so in the media, they are also entitled to their say-so in the workplace.
CAN TV should look forward to cooperatively developing a first contract with its employees, realizing that bargaining improved employee salaries and benefits will bolster existing Chicago-area union support of CAN TV’s periodic campaigns and appeals around funding and legislation. And other, non-economic issues in a contract will lead to greatly improving working conditions and community interface.
Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you.
Yours truly,
Gary M. Brooks, Chairperson
Committee for Labor Access (Labor Beat)
37 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607
224-628-8315
[email protected]
cc: Barbara Popovic
CAN TV Workers Demand a Voice.pdf
292K
Labor, media, and community activists:
Please forward widely this PDF of the NABET Local 41 flyer below, and come to the rally on Friday, July 31.
Labor Beat has joined the campaign to support the organizing efforts of over 2/3 of CAN TV's employees. Labor Beat has been a non-profit public access programmer/user of CAN TV since the late 80s with our weekly show on CAN TV Channel 19. After learning about CAN TV's employee's efforts to organize a union there, we wrote a letter to the Chicago Access Network board calling on them to recognize the union automatically. Apparently, that is not happening as of this date.
So, we hope to see you at the rally on July 31.
In solidarity,
Larry Duncan
Labor Beat co-producer
www.laborbeat.org
773-392-0908
============== NABET Local 41 Call============
====== Labor Beat statement to CAN board Chairperson, sent July 13, 2015 ===========
Alie Kabba, Chairman
Chicago Access Network
322 S. Green St.
Chicago, IL 60607
Dear Chairman Kabba,
Committee for Labor Access (producer of the Labor Beat series on CAN TV since the late 80s) has recently learned that the majority of employees at CAN TV have signed cards to have NABET Local 41 represent them.
Labor Beat/CLA fully expects CAN TV to recognize NABET 41 and to agree to collectively bargain with its employees.
CAN TV has from its beginning been based upon democratic principles of empowering Chicago’s disenfranchised communities. Workers who have no other resource than to sell their labor are among the most disenfranchised.
Recognition of a union at CAN TV will be critical for the future development of Chicago Access Network as a community-oriented organization. This will protect its reputation as a defender of communities denied access to control of their lives, both in their neighborhoods and at their places of work. Just as working people are entitled to their say-so in the media, they are also entitled to their say-so in the workplace.
CAN TV should look forward to cooperatively developing a first contract with its employees, realizing that bargaining improved employee salaries and benefits will bolster existing Chicago-area union support of CAN TV’s periodic campaigns and appeals around funding and legislation. And other, non-economic issues in a contract will lead to greatly improving working conditions and community interface.
Please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you.
Yours truly,
Gary M. Brooks, Chairperson
Committee for Labor Access (Labor Beat)
37 S. Ashland Ave.
Chicago, IL 60607
224-628-8315
[email protected]
cc: Barbara Popovic
CAN TV Workers Demand a Voice.pdf
292K