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Mid-Hudson Coalition for Economic Justice/ Jobs with Justice Upcoming The Coalition has been inactive in 2006. For the 40-hour FAST, however, contact Rural and Migrant Ministries. Monday, March 5 through Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Questions? News
and Archives The Coalition gathered in 2005 for a strategic planning session with a potential focus on healthcare issues. The rally on March 27, 2004 at St. Luke's-Cornwall Hospital, 70 Dubois St., Newburgh, was an unprecedented showing of labor solidarity in the Mid-Hudson Valley with 1199SEIU members from New York and Westchester joining their brothers and sisters at St. Luke's-Cornwall. Almost 1,300 workers are seeking workplace democracy. Half of these members have no health coverage themselves! The Coalition organized effective Justice for Cintas Workers Actions at Starbucks in New Paltz and Poughkeepsie on June 19, 2003. Cintas, the largest uniform and laundry service company in North America, employs over 27,000 workers and is profiting wildly at the expense of a low-wage, largely immigrant workforce. Cintas workers are organizing with UNITE! Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees. We're calling upon Starbucks, a major Cintas client, to use its consumer power by demanding that Cintas do the right thing. Visit www.uniformjustice.org to learn more about the national campaign. A performance and discussion of Borderland Crossings: The Beginnings of a Farmworker's Journey, written and performed by Miguel Angel Pimental was part of the Coalition's Annual 40-hour Fast. Sponsors included Rural and Migrant Ministry, an interfaith ministry whose mission is to educate and work alongside disenfranchised rural residents and agricultural workers, the Centro Independiente Trabajadores Agticolas, (CITA, the Independent Farmworker Center), an organization of poor, immigrant farmworkers located in Florida, NY, the Mid-Hudson Coalition for Economic Justice and the Farmworker Advocacy Coalition. The performance was at Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Middletown. Click here for the
full report from MHCEJ's Spring Season of Mobilization planning meeting held
on Jan. 25, 2003.
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