protest against snucks august 12th, 13th

Gary,

We're glad you're standing with us to stop Schnucks Markets' plans to slash wages and eliminate the jobs of 190 union warehouse workers.

We need your help this weekend to take action with Teamsters Local 688 at Schnucks locations in St. Louis:

      Friday, August 12th from 12:00-4:00 pm | 1950 Zumbehl Road

      Saturday, August 13th from 12:00-4:00 pm | 4171 Lindell Blvd

Unions keep workplaces safe, wages fair, and build a strong middle class -- and hard working St. Louis families deserve living wages and better treatment than they're getting with this scheme from Schnucks.

Thanks for joining us in the fight for good wages and a strong middle class. See you thisweekend!

demonstration in saint louis against low wages

RALLY AGAINST LOW WAGES! Thursday, July 14th 3:15 pm Clayton Metrolink Station St. Louis, Missouri

Friend -

Join us to stand with SEIU Local 1 for Justice for Janitors TOMORROW, July 14th to rally for fair wages.

St. Louis workers deserve better treatment than they're getting from contractors like Centaur -- and its time contractors pay their fair share!

Our collective voices are stronger when we stand together and St. Louis families are counting on us to fight for good jobs so our city can thrive.

For more information or to RSVP, contact me at kristian@mojwj.org.

See you tomorrow,

Kristian Blackmon, St. Louis Organizer

New year to bring changes | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri

New year to bring changes | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri:

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 JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — The new year is bringing a dime increase for Missouri's minimum wage and the end of an open records exemption that has shielded from disclosure security systems and structural plans for buildings and polices for responding to terrorism.

Starting Wednesday, workers in Missouri will be paid at least $7.35 an hour, an increase above the federal rate of $7.25 because of inflation. A 2006 voter-approved law increased the minimum wage and included an annual cost of living adjustment. The federal minimum wage for the past several years had remained higher, so Missouri followed the federal requirement.

Lara Granich, director of Missouri Jobs with Justice, said many workers have been waiting three years for a raise. "While Missouri's minimum wage remains decades out of date, this modest increase will deliver a valuable stimulus to the state's economy and ensure that low-wage workers do not fall further behind as the cost of living continues to rise," Granich said.

The minimum wage also is increasing in nine other states, the National Employment Law Project said. Advocates estimate Missouri's minimum wage increase could directly affect 72,000 people and indirectly affect 7,000.

Business groups said Missouri needs to rethink automatically increasing the minimum wage based upon inflation because it makes it harder to compete with neighboring states.

Dan Mehan, president and CEO of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said after the increase was announced this fall that it causes uncertainty.

"At a time when 

Claire McCaskill, United State Senator of Missouri, for ST. LOUIS Scrooge of the Year | Missouri Jobs with Justice | causes.com

Elect Claire McCaskill, United State Senator of Missouri, for ST. LOUIS Scrooge of the Year | Missouri Jobs with Justice | causes.com:

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claire has not been our buddy on many issues soar might be progressive and blue dogs sometimes do make the mark

ST. LOUIS Scrooge Candidates | Missouri Jobs with Justice | causes.com

ST. LOUIS Scrooge Candidates | Missouri Jobs with Justice | causes.com:

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soulard market tomorrow raise the rate- Missouri Jobs with Justice

Have you Signed?
#GiveMOaRaise #CapTheRate

Tell us you'll be at
Soulard Farmers Market this Saturday, April 7
8a - 11am
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Already Signed?
Tell us where!

Dear G

If you haven't signed our petitions yet to raise Missouri's minimum wage $1 to $8.25/hour and cap Payday Lending interest rates at 36% - we are going to be very close to where you live this Saturday morning! We are very close to reaching our goal of 40,000 signatures, and collecting the 120,000 we need across the state to qualif each of these two initiatives for the November ballot. We want you to put us over the top!

Email me, Aaron Burnett, and tell me if you want to meet us at Soulard Farmers Market this Saturday, April 7, between 8am - 11am and sign these two important petitions for economic justice in Missouri.

Already signed them? We want to know where!

Did you sign the petitions in your church or union meeting? Or did you encounter one of our volunteers in Florissant, at a Fish Fry, on South Grand, in Forest Park, or elsewhere? Let me know in a quick email - we want to know where our people found the petition in the streets.

Onward,
Aaron Burnett

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with luck, I will be there. Then intend to shop for Easter goodies at Soulard Market

SEIU, JWJ, join MORE with Occupy StL

URGENT jobs with justice call to protect health care--opposition to Ryan cuts

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From: "Missouri Jobs with Justice"

Date: 04/14/2011 10:23:44 EDT
Subject: Urgent Action: Tell Congress to Protect Health Care for Workers and Retirees





Urgent Action: Tell Congress to Protect Health Care for Workers and Retirees




Take action Now!



Call 1-866-922-4970 and tell YOUR US Representative: "I oppose Ryan's budget proposal. We can't balance the budget at the expense of retirees, working families, children, and the communities they live in.





Attacks on workers are just gearing up in the Federal Budget struggle. House Budget Chair Paul Ryan wants to balance the budget by gutting health care funding and other services for working families and retirees.



Ryan, a Republican from Wisconsin, proposes to trim more than a trillion dollars from Medicaid, Medicare, and subsidies in the Affordable Care Act that will give working families an opportunity to purchase affordable insurance. Each of these budget cuts leads to more jobs lost here in Missouri!



While Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps and a host of domestic spending programs that create jobs are deeply cut, tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are not on the table.



Its time to tell the US House of Representatives to stop cutting funding for health care, working families, and retirees.



Take action now!



The first vote on the proposed FY2012 federal budget can happen any time. So it's important for you to call your US Representative right now! Tell your Representative:


"I strongly oppose Congressman Ryan's budget proposal. I urge you to vote against Congressman Ryan's budget proposal. It's time to stand up for working families and retirees in the budget. I am opposed to the proposed Medicaid and Medicare cuts that will hurt retirees, working families and children. We can't balance the budget by destroying our communities."


Use this toll freee number: 1-866-922-4970


Call NOW! Fight Back!


WE ARE ONE!


Fore more information, contact Jobs with Justice Health Care Organizer Amy Smoucha: Amy@mojwj.org or 314-608-3917.

rally jobs with justice saint louis saturday

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St. Louisans Hold Unity Rally To Support Wisconsin Protestors
By Teresa Woodard

FOX2now.com

1:19 PM CST, February 26, 2011

TOWN & COUNTRY, MO (KTVI - FOX2now.com)

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A rally in St. Louis Saturday was held in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin. While protesters in that state are upset over a proposal to cut the budget by ending collective bargaining rights for some public worker unions, local demonstrators say Missouri has its own battle to fight. It's all about the minimum wage.

"Support public workers! Support public workers," they chanted outside a shuttered Wal Mart in Town and Country. About 50 people who support organized labor said they were there to support the working people in the state of Wisconsin.

"People are here because of the energy and inspiration provided by the working people of Wisconsin right now," said Lara Granich, of Jobs with Justice. "But we know workers aren't just under attack in Wisconsin, they're under attack in Missouri as well."

'The Missouri house is considering a bill that would repeal our minimum wage," said Granich, "including repealing a key provision that allows the minimum wage to go up a little each year to keep up with the cost of inflation"

The bills being debated in the House and Senate would essentially kill the cost of living adjustment, because it would keep the state's minimum wage, from ever exceeding the federal minimum wage.

Joe Wicks was in the crowd. He is a waiter in the loop making $3.63 an hour.

"It's hard, it's hard to keep up with daily bills, food, rent, utilities, gas to get to work, it's hard," he said. "And it's sad to know that these people who are supposed to represent the people of Missouri are so dead set against helping the people of Missouri."

From the rally, they divided themselves up into several groups who went to knock on doors and make calls, trying to encourage voters to contact their lawmakers.

"It's a direct repeal of the will of the voters," said Wicks.

In Wisconsin, there are lots of people saying it's beyond time to be more fiscally conservative. Some say if Missouri's minimum wage continues to inch up, the cost of doing business here goes up, and jobs may leave.

"There are a lot of ways to fix the budget crisis and we think you should look not just at cuts but ways you can bring revenue into our state to keep investing in our greatest assets that will help our economy recover," said Granich.

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