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NEW YORK (AP) – A national coalition of unions, like social and racial justice organizations, will maintain a major recall this month as a component of an ongoing review of systemic racism and police brutality in the United States.
Dubbed the “Black Lives Strike,” tens of thousands of fast food, ride-sharing, retirement homes and airports in more than 25 cities are expected to leave paintings on July 20 for about 8 minutes, the time prosecutors say a white Minneapolis police officer kept his knee on George Floyd’s neck in May , reminiscent of black men and women who recently died at the hands of the police.
The national strike will also come with a handful of worker-led marches in the cities, organizers said Wednesday.
According to key points shared exclusively with The Associated Press, organizers are not an easy radical action through businesses and the government to tackle systemic racism in an economy that stifles economic mobility and career opportunities for many black and Hispanic employees, who make up a disproportionate number of those earning less than a decent wage. They also highlight the need for guaranteed benefits for the disease, an affordable health care policy, and increased protective measures for low-wage personnel who have never had the opportunity to paint the coronavirus pandemic at home.
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“We want to unite these fights in a new and deeper way than ever before,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the International Service Employees Union, which represents more than $2 million in the United States and Canada.
“Our members have embarked on a journey … to perceive why we gain economic justice without racial justice. This strike for the lives of black people is a way of conveying our members’ perception of this on the street,” Henry told the AP. .
Among the express demands of the strikers are that companies and the government unequivocally declare that “the lives of blacks matter.” Elected officials in all grades will have to use the executive and legislative branches to pass legislation that ensures that other people of all races can thrive, according to a list of demands. Employers will also have to raise wages and allow staff to unionize to negotiate greater physical fitness care, in the event of physical fitness and childcare.
The service personnel union has partnered with the International Truckers Brotherhood, the American Federation of Teachers, the United Agricultural Workers and the $15 fight and a union, which he presented in 2012 through U.S. fast food staff. To boost a higher minimum wage.
Participating social and racial justice teams come with March On, the Center for Popular Democracy, the National Alliance of Domestic Workers, and the Black Lives Movement, a coalition of more than 150 organizations that make up the Black Lives Matter movement.
Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson, organizer of the black lives movement strike, said corporate giants who have spoken out on the BLM motion amid national protests opposed to police brutality have also benefited from racial injustice and inequality.
“They claim to have black lives, however, their business style works by exploiting the black workforce, spending pennies like a ‘decent wage’ and pretending to be surprised when COVID-19 sickenes the blacks who make up their essential workers.” Henderson, co-executive director of Tennessee-based Highlander Research and Education Center, said.
“Corporate force is a risk to racial justice, and the only way to build a new economy is to assume forces that are not fully involved in dismantling racism,” he said in a statement.
The strike continues a decades-long culture of staff rights movement. In particular, organizers were inspired by the strike of Memphis’ ‘remediation staff’ for low wages, the disparity in profits between black and white employees, and the inhumane execution situations that contributed to the deaths of two black employees in 1968. At the end of that two-month strike, some 1,300 generally black sanitation employees negotiated together for higher salaries.
The organizers of “Strike for Black Lives” say they disrupt a multigenerational cycle of perpetual poverty through anti-union and other policies that make collective bargaining difficult for higher wages and operating conditions.
Systemic poverty affects 140 million people in the United States, with 62 million people running for less than a decent salary, according to Campaign of the Poor: A National Call for Moral Renewal, a striking spouse organization. According to the group, 54% of black staff and 63% of Hispanic staff fall into this category, 37% of white staff, and 40% of American staff of Asian descent.
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“The explanation for why, on July 20, you will see movements and demonstrations, walks and sit-ins, and records of socially estranged voters is because thousands and thousands of poor, low-wage staff of all races believed and perceived that “Immigration, climate and justice are linked,” said The Rev. William Barber II, co-chair of the Poor , in a telephone interview.
“If, in fact, we have to combat the police violence that kills, then we will have to deal with the economic violence that also kills,” he said.
Organizers said some striking employees would do more than quit their jobs on July 20 through police in 2014. The strikers will then march to a memorial site where Brown was shot dead.
In Minneapolis, where Floyd killed on May 25, nursing home staff will participate in a trailer that will come with a prevention at the airport. They will be joined through wheelchair attendants and cabin cleaners that is not easy with a minimum wage of $15 consistent with the time, the organizers said.
Angely Rodriguez Lambert, a 26-year-old McDonald’s worker in Oakland, California, and a $15 combat leader and a union, said she and several colleagues tested positive for COVID-19 after workers first failed to get enough protection. Team. As an immigrant from Honduras, Lambert said he also understood the black community’s pressing fight against police brutality.
“Our message is that we are all human and that we should be treated like humans, we ask for justice for the lives of blacks and Latinos,” he told the PA.
“We act on words that no longer produce the effects we need,” he said. “It’s time to see the changes.”
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