| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 19, 2000 |
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Food and Commerical Workers and Omaha Together/One Community Announce Joint Organizing Campaign with Immigrant Workers More than four thousand people, the majority of whom are new immigrants, work in Omaha's meat packing industry. Latino workers are fighting to improve working conditions and gain basic respect to the job. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and Omaha Together/One Community (OTAC) will announce a joint organizing campaign with new immigrant workers at a press conference on Tuesday, June 20, 2000, at 1:30 p.m. The new organizing campaign is committed to mobilizing workers to stand up for their legal rights on the job with the backing of the largest meat packing workers' union in the country, the UFCW. The union will announce new charges filed with the National Labor Relations Board of workers' rights violations in area plants. Details will be revealed at the news conference. Tomorrow's announcements come after a year of a special Immigration and Naturalization Service enforcement program?Operation Vanguard?that has targeted all Latino workers for special scrutiny and review of documents. Ten college students are in Omaha for the summer to kick off the organizing campaign with UFCW as part of the AFL-CIO's Union Summer program. The students have come from Rhode Island, Texas, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado and California to help reach out to the thousands of immigrant workers in Nebraska and Iowa's meat packing industry. The Omaha Union Summer interns will hold a special pre-press conference briefing at 1:00 p.m., immediately prior to the full press conference at 1:30. Tuesday, June 20 at the Nebraska State AFL-CIO ? 5418 S. 27th St., Suite 1, Omaha. -30- For more information or to schedule interviews with the union summer interns, please contact Jill Cashen at (202) 728-4797 or email press@ufcw.org |
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