Building a United Community for Arizona's Future
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- Community Forum on SB 1070
St Matthews Church, 320 N. 20th Dr....
Thursday, July 29 at 2:30pm - City Council Vote on Sky Harbo...
City Council Chambers, 200 W. Jeffe...
Wednesday, May 19 at 3:00pm - Help Us Protect Airport Worker...
Anywhere and Everywhere
Friday, April 30 at 12:00pm - Protect Airport Workers' Jobs!...
Anywhare and Everywhere!
Friday, April 30 at 11:30am - Community Action for Jobs and...
Wilson Elementary School, 400 n 30t...
Thursday, April 22 at 5:00pm - CASE 101
2401 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ...
Thursday, February 11 at 5:30pm - CASE 101
2401 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix AZ...
Thursday, January 7 at 5:30pm - CASE 101
2401 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Ar...
Thursday, January 7 at 5:30pm - CASE 101
2401 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, Ar...
Thursday, January 7 at 5:30pm
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy)
CASE and Promise Arizona to Host 550 Activists from L.A. County on First Day of New Immigration Law
Phoenix, AZ--More than 550 members of Los Angeles unions, faith, and community groups will travel to Phoenix in a caravan of 11 chartered buses on the day SB 1070 is scheduled to go into effect. Sponsored by the Los An...geles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO, the L.A. activists will meet with working Arizonans already hit hard by a struggling economy and now facing the state’s new immigration law. “In 1994, California Gov. Pete Wilson’s attack on immigrants spurred Latinos to organize and fight for their rights alongside the rest of California’s working people, as never before in our state’s history,” says Maria Elena Durazo, executive secretary-treasurer of the L.A. labor federation. “The renewal of that attack in the form of SB 1070 has made our members realize that to protect our rights as working people we must reach out beyond our state’s borders and find ways to build a real long-term partnership with our neighbors in Arizona.” The Los Angeles group will attend a community briefing at St. Matthews Church with City Councilman Michael Nowakowski, Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris, Arizona AFL-CIO Executive Director Rebekah Friend and various other members of the Phoenix community. They hope to learn first-hand about the events leading up to SB1070, the effects of the law and the economic boycott of Arizona on the state’s working people, and the challenges facing different groups as they struggle to work together to improve the standards for immigrants and all working people in Arizona. Following the community briefing, the group will accompany their Phoenix hosts to the State Capitol where they will participate in the ongoing prayer vigil that has been conducted by immigrants-rights activists since April 19. Petra Falcon, director of Promise Arizona and one of the event’s Arizona hosts, says she helped arrange the visit because “we believe it is extraordinarily important to look at the passage of SB 1070 and other similar legislation in the context of the continued struggles of all working people in Arizona, and of our state and federal lawmakers’ failure to address those struggles.” The Phoenix events are also being hosted by CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy), a Phoenix non-profit concerned with raising the standards of people who work in Arizona’s low-wage service sector. When: Thursday July 29, at 2:30 PMWhere: St. Matthews Church, 320 N. 20th Dr., Phoenix ArizonaWhat: Los Angeles—Phoenix Solidarity Action
Thursday, July 29, 2010 at 2:30pm
St Matthews Church, 320 N. 20th Dr. Phoenix, AZ
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) We are gearing up for a broad community canvas and voter outreach this summer! Please sign on to our list to receive emails, action alerts, and volunteer opportunities!
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CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) Please come to support Airport workers as City Council votes on a Request for Proposals for Sky Harbor Food Service Concessions--WITH WORKER RETENTION REQUIREMENT. Hopefully, a celebration will be in order afterward!
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at 3:00pm
City Council Chambers, 200 W. Jefferson, Phoenix AZ
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) Important Airport Jobs Campaign Victory! Today the Aviation Subcommittee of the Phoenix City Council unanimously voted to include a worker retention requirement in the RFP for Food Service in Sky Harbor’s Terminal 4! We are now at the doorstep of creating job security for 700 Food Service workers at Sky Harbor, and on...e step closer to doing the same for 200 Parking workers!
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Please contribute to our Food Drive for 300 terminated Ranch Market Grocery Workers
A week and a half ago, amidst all the turmoil around the signing of SB 1070, Pro's Ranch Market grocery stores fired over 300 immigrant workers from several Phoenix area stores. Already on the margins of poverty because of the failure o...f the non-union supermarket company to pay a living wage or offer affordable health insurance, hundreds of Valley families have been devastated by the Ranch Market firings. While the long-term solutions to problems such as these must be fairer and more sustainable immigration policies, workplace standards, and organizing rights, we must do what we can to help ease the suffering of those community members affected by the Ranch Market terminations.
Please bring non-perishable food items to one of the following locations between now and Sunday, May 9:
*First New Life Missionary Baptist Church—1902 W. Roeser Road
*Iglesia par las Naciones – 11640 N. 19th Avenue
*Snow & Carpio, PLC. – 55 E. Thomas Road
*Slow N Low Tattoo – 220 E. Southern Avenue
*Tortas La Presa – 767 E. Broadway Road
*Templo Maranatha – 3002 N. 27th Avenue
Thanks very much for your continued support of Phoenix's working families
A Valley advocacy group hopes to help families trying to survive in the low-wage service sector.
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy)
The Face of Arizona: Teresa Herrera
Teresa Herrera is one of 1,000 Sky Harbor Terminal Service whose livelihood may be at risk as the City of Phoenix Aviation department prepares to rebid the contracts for Airport Parking and Terminal 4 Food Service. From now until the day we have a worker retention policy in place t...o protect those community members’ jobs, CASE will profile the hard-working men and women that make “America’s Friendliest Airport” run.
Despite suffering from the debilitating disease lupus, Teresa holds two restaurant jobs in Food Service at Sky Harbor’s Terminal 4. At 3 am she goes to work at Wendy’s for four hours; after that she does an 8-hour shift as a cook at the First Round Bar. “I need to have both of these jobs to be able to afford my rent, my car, and my health insurance, and my medicines. I have a disease for which there is no cure and I don’t know what I would do if I lost my job or my health insurance.”
A mother of 6 grown children who immigrated to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, 40 years ago Teresa is also an active member of her union UNITE HERE. She helped win a contract with HMS Host last year that made her health care more affordable and guarantees her raises of 40 cents per hour for each of the next three years at her First Round Job. (Wendy’s on the other hand, is not operated by HMS Host, is non-union, and over the last three years has only raised Teresa’s starting salary of 8.50 per hour by 10 cents). She has also attended community meetings and met with several city council members in order to win a worker retention requirement that would protect her job and those of her coworkers.
Teresa is exactly the kind of hard-working woman we need representing our Airport’s award-winning concessions program. Please to what you can to help her protect her job. Call or email Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos (602-262-6941, david.cavazos@phoenix.gov). Ask him to make sure there is a worker retention requirement in the RFP for Parking and for Terminal 4 Food Service at Sky Harbor Airport.
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1,000 Terminal Services workers at Sky Harbor Airport still have reason to worry as the City of Phoenix Aviation department plans to rebid the contracts for Parking and Terminal 4 Food Service at Sky Harbor Airport.
Please take action to help us protect the jobs of our neighbors who work at Sky Harbor. Call Phoenix Cit...y Manager David Cavazos at 602-262-6941 or email him at david.cavazos@phoenix.gov and ask him to make sure there is a 'worker retention' requirement in the RFPs for Parking and Terminal 4 Food Service at Sky Harbor. Please RSVP below when you have called or emailed!
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Friday, April 30, 2010 at 12:00pm
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CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) The Phoenix Aviation Department is celebrating a first-place award from a national trade magazine for the excellence of Sky Harbor's concessions program. Shouldn't they offer job security to the workers who helped win this award?
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) Our campaign to save the jobs of 1,000 people who work at Sky Harbor Airport is really pciking up steam. Please help us get the word out. Invite your friends to become fans of CASE. Let's see if we can get to 500!
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) Despite falling on the eve of the Governor's signing of SB1070, out Airport Jobs rally at the Wilson School still drew nearly 200 community members and a story on the local TV news! Check out the clip!
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) A reminder to all about the Community Action for Jobs, Justice, and Government Accountability at next Thursday, April 22 at 5 PM. Looks like the City's Aviation Department does not want to create a requirement that will protect the jobs of 1,000 Food Service and Parking workers if the City decides to change vendors! ...We need to stand up for a better jobs policy now and show support to those city leaders who are standing with us on this important issue!
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy)
Our campaign to protect the jobs of 1,000 people who work in parking services and the restaurants at Sky Harbor Airport is coming to a head. Please come to show your support for quality jobs at Sky Harbor and for a city government more responsive to the concerns of Phoenix's working people!
The event is being held at t...he Wilson school--which decades ago was moved from the heart of the Golden Gate Barrio when that Barrio was razed to make room for Sky Harbor expansion.
We hold the event there, for two reasons:
1. to commemorate the Golden Gate neighborhood activists who 40 years ago struggled to make sure the needs of working people and the integrity of our neighborhoods were taken into account by the City leaders who create Phoenix's economic and development policies.
2. to frame our fight for quality jobs and fairness for terminal service workers at Sky Harbor as but a first step in reviving the movement created by those Golden Gate Activists!
Please join us on April 22 and bring a friend . . . or two!
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 5:00pm
Wilson Elementary School, 400 n 30th St., Phoenix
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) check out this newsletter from our national network, the Partnership for Working Families. The last highlight in the newsletter talks about CASE's current airport jobs campaign.
communitybenefits.org
Partnership for Working Families | 2525 W. Alameda Avenue | Denver, CO 80219 | 303-727-8088 ph | info@communitybenefits.org | www.communitybenefits.org
CASE (Central Arizonans for a Sustainable Economy) A very bad day for working people in Arizona--350,000 people to lose their health-care.
Arizona budget passes; cuts total $1.1 billion, State lawmakers delivered on Gov. Jan Brewer's promise to end the days of "expanded government," passing a budget Thursday that eliminates programs and cuts $1.1 billion in spending. {bnl} See how each House member voted | More politics
