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SEIU hunger strike @ University of Miami spreads to Boston

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fensterm - April 10, 2006 @ 11:11 pm · Harvard Labor Matters

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Workers from the University of Miami who will fast in Boston support of their compa�eros back in Miami. together with Harvard SLAMmers and friends.

Janitorial workers at University of Miami employed by Massachusetts based UNICCO Services Company began a hunger strike on April 5. This in addition to already being on strike and after a sit-in by students. [Wikipedia] recounts this in more detail and mentions the picketline blog and the Students for a New Democracy website. Picketline asserts [among other things] that while UNICCO finds Card Check undemocratic at UM, it has found it acceptable in many other cases. [Last fall, tGbtD was invited to speak to a working group of the Institute of Politics of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. I suggested that they look at card check neutrality as a means to enable the right to unionize. I ain’t got no R.O.I. ! This would be a good time!]


SEIU local 615 is hosting their compa�eros from Univeristy of Miami. On Tuesday April 11, 2006 they will fast in front of UNICCO Service Company Northeast Region headquarters. There will also be a SLAM event at Harvard.

Downtown Boston UNICCO Service Company Northeast Region Headquarters 18 Tremont St. [Near Park St. T]

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Y’all come. They should be able to see you.


The event will be from 9 AM to 5 PM, but the hightlights are:

12:00 Noon – Rally with Clergy and Community Leaders

4:00 Breaking of the Fast
5:00 [ish] Seder

Oy, such a goy* am I! The Seder was at 4! I was trying to reconcile two different e-mails and got it wrong. My apologies to Harvard’s Progressive Jewish students. I have a great story about your forbearers at the 2001 sit-in. Y’all come back now hear.

There will be quasi-live web coverage from UNICCO Hq. [actually the Kinko’s down the street] right here at GBD.

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Harvard: Join the SLAMmers in a “solidarity fast” on campus. Wear a sign like:

I’m fasting; ask me why.
or
Fasting in Solidarity with Hunger-Strikers at U Miami

There should be sign making materials available in Phillips Brooks House.


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The President of UM is Donna Shalala. Wikipedia does not mention [but it will :)] her gig as President of Hunter College in New York where I worked on my second of three PhD theses. I’m asking my colleagues to refresh my memory of her reign. She took the reigns in 1980, still within the Municipal Assistance Corporation “control period” initiated by the New York City fiscal crisis of 1975. All I remember was the feeling of my already meager standard of living sinking further.

*I am 1/2 Pennsylvania Dutch who are German Protestants migrated to the US to escape religious persecution. It is a guilt based religion with bad experience in Germany. Is that an connection with Judaism?

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