UFCW 8-Golden State and Change to Win Coalition Members Set Rally to ``Cure the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis''; Similar Events Planned in More Than 35 Cities Nationwide.ROSEVILLE, Calif. -- As part of a nationwide campaign to "Help Cure the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis," UFCW UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers 8-Golden State and grassroots supporters of WakeUpWalMart.com will join local Change to Win federation members, workers and community activists in a public rally at the South Steps of the Capitol in Sacramento at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Similar events will occur in more than 35 cities across the United States in this nationwide day of action. The event is the first coordinated national action involving the new Change to Win federation, which represents more than six million workers. Among those scheduled to address the rally are: Jacques Loveall, President, UFCW 8-Golden State; Bill Camp, Executive Secretary, Sacramento Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO AFL-CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. AFL-CIO in full American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations U.S. ; Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU SEIU Service Employees International Union SEIU Special Education Intake Unit SEIU Secondary Education Interdisciplinary Unit SEIU Software Engineering Institute Union ); and Jim Hart, President SEIU Local 1000. They will discuss the "Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis" and the growing cost that American taxpayers pay for Wal-Mart's failure to provide company health care to 775,000 of its workers and their families. "Change to Win (CTW), representing six million workers, is building a new movement of working people to provide better pay, affordable health care, a secure retirement and dignity on the job," said Jacques Loveall, President of UFCW 8-Golden State. Change to Win unions include the United Food and Commercial Worker's International Union (UFCW), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America is one of the largest building trades union in the United States. One of the unions that formed the American Federation of Labor in 1886, it left the AFL-CIO in 2001. , UNITE HERE, Laborers' International Union of North America The Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA, often shortened to just the Laborers' Union) is an American and Canadian labor union formed in 1903. As of 2005, they have about 700,000 members, including about 80,000 in its Mail Handler's division. (LIUNA LIUNA Laborers' International Union of North America ) and the United Farm Workers of America The United Farm Workers of America (UFW) began in 1962 as a coalition of poorly paid migrant farm workers and grew into a powerful Labor Union that has consistently fought to increase wages and improve working conditions for its members. (UFW). The "Help Cure the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis" campaign is the latest initiative launched by WakeUpWalMart.com, America's national campaign to change Wal-Mart and one of the fastest growing social movements in America with 211,000 supporters in all 50 states. |
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