UFCW Local 1428 and Change to Win Coalition Members to Hold National Rally to ``Help Cure the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis''; Public Rallies Will Take Place in Over 35 Cities Nationwide.CLAREMONT, Calif. -- As part of a nationwide campaign to "Help Cure the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis," UFCW UFCW United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1428 and grassroots supporters of WakeUpWalMart.com, local Change to Win federation members, workers, and community activists will lead a public rally at a Wal-Mart store located at 3250 Big Dalton Ave in Baldwin Park at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 26, 2006. Similar events will be happening in over 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 over six million workers. Speakers at the rally will discuss the "Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis" and the growing cost American taxpayers pay for Wal-Mart's failure to provide company health care to 57 percent, over 775,000, of its workers. WHAT: Change to Win Rally to Cure the Wal-Mart Health Care Crisis WHERE: Wal-Mart -- 3250 Big Dalton Ave, Baldwin Park WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 26, 2006 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 for millions of workers and their families. Change to Win unions include the United Food and Commercial Worker's International Union (UFCW), 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 ), International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), 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. WakeUpWalMart.com is 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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