Resistance & Recovery Week of Action March 27-April 4, 2009
Organizers protest at Rite Aid store The Daily News of Newburyport - Apr 3, 2009
"I'm here in part for Jobs with Justice, and they are powerful. If we wanted 500 people here, we could have them here, but that's not what we are about," ...
Protests took place today in nine other parts of Massachusetts, as well as other Jobs with Justice coalitions in New York, Virginia, Oregon, Washington, ...
Rally For Jobs Held
WHIO-TV - Dayton, OH
The Miami Valley Full Employment Council, along with support from Jobs with Justice, held a Rally for Jobs event on Friday morning to bring attention to the unemployed.
April 2
Workers' Rights Group Protests Outside Rite Aid
WABI - Bangor,ME,USA
Members of "Food and Medicine," based in Brewer, waved signs outside the Rite Aid at the corner of Union and Fourteenth Streets. ...
April 1
Chicago rallies for Employee Free Choice People's Weekly World - Apr 1
In a national week of action, Chicago Free Choice supporters led by the local Jobs With Justice chapter rallied on Tuesday in front of the Chicago-land ...
Cleveland rallies for Employee Free Choice People's Weekly World - Apr 1
The event, one of 44 “Resistance and Recovery” actions held nationwide by the Jobs With Justice coalition during the week of March 27 – April 4, ...
Cesar Chavez committee takes a look at Broadway The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - 11 hours ago
Jamie Partridge, of Jobs With Justice, said many Portland progressives can trace their activism to the grape and lettuce boycotts that Chavez led. ...
Survey plumbs Maine layoff toll WBZ - Mar 29, 2009
BREWER, Maine (AP) Food and Medicine, an advocacy group for working people, says mill workers in eastern Maine are moving to jobs that pay on average 20 ...
March 28
Ex-millworkers with service sector jobs see pay drop Bangor Daily News Food AND Medicine is a Brewer-based advocacy group that seeks higher wages and affordable health care for working-class Mainers. The organization used the interviews...
Report About State of Laid Off Mill Workers Released WCSH-TV - Mar 28, 2009
BREWER (NEWS CENTER) -- Food and Medicine, an advocacy group for working people, released a report that states that mill workers in eastern Maine are moving ...
Workers no longer receiving fair share in economy
Bangor Daily News
Over the past five months, Brewer-based organization Food AND Medicine surveyed 107 workers who had lost union jobs between 2000 and 2008.
March 27
Report Tracks Displaced Workers Downeast MPBN News - Mar 27, 2009
The nonprofit group Food and Medicine has released a report tracking more than 100 people in eastern Maine who were laid off from manufacturing jobs ...
The group "food and medicine" conducted a study to see what's really happening. Ron Allen says he's one of the workers who continues to struggle after ...
