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| Occupy Boston Announcement
Dear All,
In August, employees of Cambridge's Insomnia Cookies struck, and
joined the IWW. They were fed up
with lousy pay and conditions. Their demands included $15/hr, health care, and a
union, and they were swiftly terminated. Ever since, workers have stayed strong
and maintained their struggle, which has grown into an organizing drive at the
boutique cookie business. Insomnia pays rock-bottom wages, charges $1.35 for
cookies that cost the company .10 to make, and refuses to pay workers'
compensation. Bike delivery workers report that if they get hurt in traffic, the
boss' response is, "Why are you late?" In response to a series of
protests against the company's labor practices, Insomnia falsely reported
picketers were blocking the sidewalk in front of the Cambridge store, giving
Harvard and Cambridge cops an excuse to bring police violence, and phony charges of assaulting cops, down on
a union member.
Undeterred, the
workers and their allies are keeping up pressure on the company with continuing
pickets
of local stores. Students at Harvard, BU and elsewhere have called for a boycott of
the company. The National Labor Relations Board issued a
Complaint against Insomnia for illegally firing workers for union activity.
Recently SEIU Local 509 donated $1,000 to the campaign, a magnificent act of
solidarity.
In Solidarity,
Geoff
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Sunday, January 19, 2014
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