how bout diz dixie chick ?

  org what ?

       where?


    to me 
           dis  particular 
               pepper dill 
                        makes  hoss sense 

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   read up 

                 you'll see 

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An Organizing Proposal

By Anne Janks


chicken choppin'
 iz 
One of the largest
 concentrations  of unorganized
industrial workers 
in the US 


yet its 
 largely ignored 
by organized
labor.


and to think 
an Organized
 poultry industry
will have
 an immediate  impact
 on the future 
of the labor movement 
in the sorry south :

"the land time forgot

where the idea
of workers  tryin'
                          to organize 
                       iz a bad joke "

rights?
as in 
 real enforcement protections ?

i hear ralph's 
har dee har har har 
do you?




It should be an embarrassment
 for Labor that a human
rights organization
 (Human Rights Watch )
 are the only
ones speaking out against 
"the systemic abuses in
poultry"



 workers in poultry want to organize
at least
 enough of em
to  keep us very busy

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lets hope
We can learn 
from previous multi-union efforts
 
hey we got a base

 They've  been waiting 
 a decade 
for Labor to
pay attention to em


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THE  JANKS  PLAN

since  We
won't be able to negotiate higher wages
 until we have
critical mass in the industry
 we better start
 by taking over  the shop
floor
we gotta own it ...


force bathroom
breaks

stub out 
punitive  firings 


ensure  pay
 for all time worked 
and
 file  comp claims

 expose flagrant safety violations
remember Upton kids 


"  floor power 
       makes  a union valuable
                    to poultry workers "

Tyson Foods  primary target:

 After two decades 
of industry consolidation
Tyson is the largest in poultry
 and in
recent years a dominant force 
in meatpacking too

Tyson  today has
 a handful of union contracts
 largely
at plants that it purchased

 Tyson is large enough to
shift production 
to other plants
 or even take short-
term losses to maintain 
its corporate union avoidance
posture


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Workers must define 
their own issues

 buy deep into any 
attack on their employer



sure We will file for NLRB elections

 With inoculation and
community support
 we may be able 
to win a few 

but the main course.......

 non-Board strategies


 Poultry is an ideal
industry for forming minority unions
 
 not official
not contracted 
but with  shop floor
         power 

power at the point of profit
                      
bash the board in three dimensions 

illustrate
 the anti-union heart  of the Board 


yet and still

We can best  convict  Tyson 
of subverting the
wishes of its  workers 
by running up against 
 the current board system


Workers will gleefully 
go 
     non-Board
once
we  demonstrate
 how NLRB
elections don't work

there will be casualties .....


if we started tomorrow 
a probe to pick the best 
                half   dozen shots
                   can  be 
                  completed within 3 months

 Based on that  probe  
we 
can  plan on
 initiating 
our  hell raisin 
          campaigns
         by june 

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Community support

 Interfaith Worker Justice
 Local
Interfaith Worker Justice groups
are  a key
starting point 
in the out reach  campaign 
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demographics:

real rainbow 


foreign latinos 30%
 native  Latinos 17%
 whites  33 %,
 African-Americans  20%.


There are  over 200,000
 poultry workers in the US




 States with the largest production
are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, and Mississippi.

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more on 
THE PUBLIC CAMPAIGN

We  launch our public campaign
 simultaneously
with our plant 
             organizing

plan?

we  frame tyson

 as a  wreckless profiteering 
              monster
running a chain of  foul
                              skunk houses 
key:

use  compelling personal stories


 and  demonstrate 
 long term
   gubmint complicity 
in all 
this  heedless amok management
 
food safety  environmental  

working conditions

 and we frame the NLRB 


   for uselessness at best
obstruction and conspiracy 
        at the worse 
      
           workers who want
         a voice at their workplace
           

 Tyson's bragging about
factories which have a million man hours with no
injuries resulting in a lost work day
 In such a dangerous industry

 that's an impossible  lie  

whats real is tyson's 
 no report policy 
on job injuries

 there are graphic
 horrific worker
stories to tell 

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A campaign against a big poultry
processor 
 exposes  issues
which  make it easy 
for the public to
              identify 
               which side they are on.

remember the  farm worker boycotts?

and throw in 
The potential 
 for an international
campaign too.......


see the head line

tyson   violates 
 international 
             human rights standards
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Nationally, there's
the Latino and African-American communities

 Labor needs 
 to develop new links
to those communities

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to say the least
   Tyson

is vulnerable
to  boycott attacks 

 Almost every consumer
routinely purchases 
processed poultry
 yet there is
little difference 
between different brand products

Consumers would only need to make
 a slight shift in their
                   shopping patterns 
to support poultry workers

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IMPACT ON POLITICS


 The political
impact of substantial organizing 
in the South cannot be
overstated

and a battle 
over the job rights 
of some of this nation's
                 most exploited workers

along the way
we will  demonstrate 
the failure of OSHA
 Labor Department
the  EPA
 and the USDA
 to
enforce
 basic protections 
  for workers and communities.

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WHAT TO DO NOW

 Once
a commitment is made 
to organize poultry
 resolving the
specifics of how to provide 
resources 
and draw on many unions 
can be done

 Clearly, it will require
 help from
unions which have successfully
 organized in the South
and among immigrant workers.

The UFCW will support 
a multi-union organizing approach
because it is the best way 
to organize one 
of their
core industries 
 meatpacking

 The UFCW has been forced
 to concentrate on WalMart
 which
represents 
a significant attack 
on the UFCW's other
core industry  grocery  retail.

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today
 the   Poultry  industry
                is without a rep war 
      despite
   job  waters 
     that 
alledgedly
         teem  with
                     unions 
                      " willing  
                       to organize 
                 outside  their core
                          industries"
 so why does it 
  remain
 unorganized ?


Under the
plans to restructure 
the AFL-CIO 
to ensure that unions
focus on their core industries
 
we can expect no
organizing in poultry

and its maybe 
our 
best chance to organize in the South

 Failing to
organize poultry means
 Labor continues to bomb
 in the South
 continues to let
liberal do good out fits
  like  Human Rights Watch 
be the sole 
 advocates
 for poultry workers in the US


there's a  proposal out there floatin around
to  spend $25 million
 on a
campaign against WalMart

 Poultry offers an opportunity
with far more modest 
initial spending 


and 
For $25 million ......

for sure 
there'd  be union
        density in poultry

and 
 new levels 
of unionization
throughout the  deeper South 

 Historically,
Labor has grown 
when advancing Labor's agenda 
also improves the quality
 of
life for all people

 Poultry can be a model 
           to
transform 
the class and political climate 
in the US.


 a coalition 
 of Labor and consumer interests 
               can be built;

                        and a winnable campaign 
                       fought to the finish .

Respectfully Submitted,



Anne Janks

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so what say you    pokes 


  tyson be a bad-ass hypogriff
               fer sure

i see a  pleasant 
        kudzoo gothic of a  tale 
                                   here

  a  real 
        deep dish southern klass crunch 


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