September 4th EDIT/UPDATE: Ferguson, representin':
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/05/business/economy/fast-food-workers-seeking-higher-wages-are-arrested-during-sit-ins.html?_r=0
With only 318,000 people in Saint Louis, and 49.5% African-American, an a big chunk of small business owners living in the county, a $15 minimum wage in the city should be fairly easy to institute. Yes, it will take more than protests. It will take massive campaigning and petitioning. But it is within reach.
In the meantime, don't eat at a fast food restaurant this Thursday, and call the corporate offices of McDonalds, Taco Bell, Burger King, etc, and tell them you stand with their striking workers.
More importantly, call Mayor Slay and Governor Nixon, and your local Mayor and representatives, and tell them you demand a $15 an hour minimum wage.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/02/more-fast-food-strikes-are-coming_n_5751630.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592
Occupy Your Job! Occupy Your Housing! Occupy Your Schools! Occupy Your Food! Occupy Your Medical Care! Occupy Your Transportation! Occupy Your Neighborhood! Occupy Your City! Occupy Your Money! Occupy Your Government! We deserve a better world! It starts with us! OCCUPY YOUR LIFE!
Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jobs. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
OCCUPY YOUR GROCERY STORE
The Schnucks supermarket on Grand at Kossuth is closing.
For those that don't know St. Louis, that is one tough area. There are a lot of drugs and crime.
There are also a lot of people just trying to live their lives.
If I had the funding I would do this right now:
A community owned grocery store, like co-op, that everyone in the neighborhood could order what they needed.
Yes, it would be off-brands, probably, but poor people already buy off-brands. And being able to get things even cheaper than Wal-mart would be a big draw.
And to be able to buy things cheaper, or even at the same price as Wal-Mart or Family Dollar, but the people would also be able to work there to pay for part of the price of their purchases. And it would build equity in the community.
As it expanded day care could be added, or a co-op shuttle that did deliveries to shut-ins and the elderly, or just to get people home with their groceries without struggling on the city buses.
And a community garden could be established, both growing to sell, or just to allow people to have a space and the support to grow their own veg.
A coffee house that could also double as a community center.
Yes, there would be difficulties. But I believe it would grow and flourish, and it would create tremendous community pride.
I hope someone that can do this is reading this. I think this should happen in low income neighborhoods especially, but it would be good in all communities.
The shorter the distance money has to travel, the stronger it is and the more worth it has.
A community grocery co-op needs to be Occupied! in North Grand!
EDIT: It also occurred to me that a community kitchen, where co-op members could bring or buy their own food and use the stove and microwave and even pots and pans and dishes, and eat there. That would help a lot of people out.
For those that don't know St. Louis, that is one tough area. There are a lot of drugs and crime.
There are also a lot of people just trying to live their lives.
If I had the funding I would do this right now:
A community owned grocery store, like co-op, that everyone in the neighborhood could order what they needed.
Yes, it would be off-brands, probably, but poor people already buy off-brands. And being able to get things even cheaper than Wal-mart would be a big draw.
And to be able to buy things cheaper, or even at the same price as Wal-Mart or Family Dollar, but the people would also be able to work there to pay for part of the price of their purchases. And it would build equity in the community.
As it expanded day care could be added, or a co-op shuttle that did deliveries to shut-ins and the elderly, or just to get people home with their groceries without struggling on the city buses.
And a community garden could be established, both growing to sell, or just to allow people to have a space and the support to grow their own veg.
A coffee house that could also double as a community center.
Yes, there would be difficulties. But I believe it would grow and flourish, and it would create tremendous community pride.
I hope someone that can do this is reading this. I think this should happen in low income neighborhoods especially, but it would be good in all communities.
The shorter the distance money has to travel, the stronger it is and the more worth it has.
A community grocery co-op needs to be Occupied! in North Grand!
EDIT: It also occurred to me that a community kitchen, where co-op members could bring or buy their own food and use the stove and microwave and even pots and pans and dishes, and eat there. That would help a lot of people out.
Monday, April 14, 2014
OCCUPY RIGHT TO WORK!
Right to work makes it sound like you can get a job without paying union dues.
What that means is that employers will have the ability to hire non-union workers.
Employers in this state (Missouri) can already fire you for any reason, including going to the bathroom.
They can record you-- despite federal wiretapping laws that would prohibit this kind of spying in any other context- they can check your background, refuse to pay your unemployment, and with the ACA, knock your hours back so that you have to pay health premiums.
WORKERS HAVE NO RIGHTS IN RIGHT TO WORK STATES.
And workers in this country don't have that many rights to begin with.
There is ENOUGH WORK. But there are NOT ENOUGH JOBS.
Everyone should be able to get a job. Work should be divided as equitably as wealth.
There is NO executive, no matter how many hours they put in, that works as hard as a factory worker, or farmer, or ditch digger. And the employers are the ones that are truly dispensable!
If the CEO doesn't show up, the company keeps running. But if the workers don't show up, production stops.
All those people that support "Right To Work" and say they made it on their own, without any help, please ask them to demonstrate this BY DOING THE WORK THEMSELVES.
Those people that say "you poor and unemployed, you need to try harder." Let's see those people demonstrate that. Since it should be so easy to "try a little harder" and go from $200 a week earnings to $1000 a week, please show us how you can go from $1000 a week to $5000.
It's easy, right? Prove it.
Employers and business owners and CEO's DO NOT DESERVE THE WEALTH FROM OUR LABOR.
EVERY JOB DESERVES A UNION! EVERY PERSON DESERVES A LIVEABLE WAGE, MANDATORY BREAK TIME, HEALTH CARE, AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE!
OCCUPY YOUR JOB!
OCCUPY RIGHT TO WORK!
(Look at how they word this--it 's not "impartial reporting", it's a marketing scheme to sell Right To Work to the public: http://www.kmov.com/news/politics/Missouri-House-endorses-right-to-work-bill-254659421.html)
What that means is that employers will have the ability to hire non-union workers.
Employers in this state (Missouri) can already fire you for any reason, including going to the bathroom.
They can record you-- despite federal wiretapping laws that would prohibit this kind of spying in any other context- they can check your background, refuse to pay your unemployment, and with the ACA, knock your hours back so that you have to pay health premiums.
WORKERS HAVE NO RIGHTS IN RIGHT TO WORK STATES.
And workers in this country don't have that many rights to begin with.
There is ENOUGH WORK. But there are NOT ENOUGH JOBS.
Everyone should be able to get a job. Work should be divided as equitably as wealth.
There is NO executive, no matter how many hours they put in, that works as hard as a factory worker, or farmer, or ditch digger. And the employers are the ones that are truly dispensable!
If the CEO doesn't show up, the company keeps running. But if the workers don't show up, production stops.
All those people that support "Right To Work" and say they made it on their own, without any help, please ask them to demonstrate this BY DOING THE WORK THEMSELVES.
Those people that say "you poor and unemployed, you need to try harder." Let's see those people demonstrate that. Since it should be so easy to "try a little harder" and go from $200 a week earnings to $1000 a week, please show us how you can go from $1000 a week to $5000.
It's easy, right? Prove it.
Employers and business owners and CEO's DO NOT DESERVE THE WEALTH FROM OUR LABOR.
EVERY JOB DESERVES A UNION! EVERY PERSON DESERVES A LIVEABLE WAGE, MANDATORY BREAK TIME, HEALTH CARE, AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE!
OCCUPY YOUR JOB!
OCCUPY RIGHT TO WORK!
(Look at how they word this--it 's not "impartial reporting", it's a marketing scheme to sell Right To Work to the public: http://www.kmov.com/news/politics/Missouri-House-endorses-right-to-work-bill-254659421.html)
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